For sponsorship reasons, Bangladesh’s highest-level professional Twenty20 cricket league is the 2023 Bangladesh Premier League, which is also known as BPL 9 or Ispahani BPL 2023 Powered by Minister Group. It is organized by the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB). The BCB announced the BPL schedule for the next three seasons in July 2022.
Following the inclusion of January and February for this league in its Future Tours Programme. As a result, the ninth season was planned to air in 2023, from January 5 to February 16. In addition, BCB made the decision to sell the franchise’s rights for three years, beginning with this season, bringing the total number of teams to seven.
The BCB released a list of franchise owners in September 2022. Five of the previous six franchises were still in control, and Rangpur Riders returned after two seasons. The BCB made the schedule for this season available to the public on December 24, 2022. In the group stage, there will be two games per day, with reserve days for all knockout games.
Bangladesh Premier League 2023 Salary cap :
Local players :
216 local players were listed into seven categories with the following salary cap:-
- Category A – ৳80 lakh (US$85,000)
- Category B – ৳50 lakh (US$53,000)
- Category C – ৳30 lakh (US$32,000)
- Category D – ৳20 lakh (US$21,000)
- Category E – ৳15 lakh (US$16,000)
- Category F – ৳10 lakh (US$11,000)
- Category G – ৳5 lakh (US$5,300)
Foreign players :
- Category A – US$80,000
- Category B – US$60,000
- Category C – US$40,000
- Category D – US$30,000
- Category E – US$20,000
Bangladesh Premier League 2023 Highest Paid Players :
Mushfiqur Rahim ($80,000) :
Mushfiqur Rahim মুশফিকুর রহিম; Born on May 9, 1987, he is a former captain and vice-captain of the Bangladesh national cricket team. He is a cricketer from Bangladesh. He is a wicketkeeper and middle-order batsman for the Bangladesh Cricket Team who uses his right hand.
Mahmudullah Riyad ($80,000) :
Mahmudullah (Bengali: মোহাম্মদ মাহমুদুল্লাহ; Born on February 4, 1986, Riyad is a Bangladeshi cricketer who goes by the name Riyad. He was the former captain of the Bangladesh national cricket team in T20Is. He has played First-class and List-A cricket for Dhaka Division, and he has represented Bangladesh in all forms of the game.
Liton Kumar Das ($80,000) :
Litton Das is a well-known and dominant Bangladeshi international wicketkeeper-batsman who started playing international cricket in 2015 and currently plays in all three formats. He is 28 years