Aminul Haque, Bangladesh’s state minister for youth and sports activities, stated on Sunday that they are going to sit with the Bangladesh Cricket Board to debate the way forward for the Bangladesh Premier League, the nation’s lone franchise-based T20 match.
BCB president Tamim Iqbal earlier introduced that they’re not ready to start the BPL till they repair points that had put the match’s credibility into query. Whereas BPL franchises welcomed the move taken by the board, it didn’t go down properly with the cricketers, as they were insecure about their future, contemplating the match was one in every of their main sources of earnings. BCB later increased the match fees for home cricket to verify cricketers are comfy financially.
Nonetheless, Aminul stated a well-liked match just like the BPL ought to happen yearly, whereas including that he was not conscious that the match had been postponed by the board when the media drew his consideration to the matter.
“I solely acquired to know from you (media) simply now, I wasn’t conscious BPL is not going to happen. BPL is a well-liked match for Bangladesh,” Aminul instructed reporters in Dhaka on Sunday.
“You are saying the board president offered some logical causes to you all. I believe a match just like the BPL must be held yearly,” he stated.
“Why it did not occur, we have to talk about. We’ll clearly monitor in future that this type of competitors takes place recurrently,” he concluded.