Aminul Haque, Bangladesh’s state minister for youth and sports activities, mentioned on Sunday that they’ll sit with the Bangladesh Cricket Board to debate the way forward for the Bangladesh Premier League, the nation’s lone franchise-based T20 event.
BCB president Tamim Iqbal earlier introduced that they’re not ready to start the BPL till they repair points that had put the event’s credibility into query. Whereas BPL franchises welcomed the move taken by the board, it didn’t go down nicely with the cricketers, as they were insecure about their future, contemplating the event was considered one of their main sources of revenue. BCB later increased the match fees for home cricket to ensure cricketers are snug financially.
Nevertheless, Aminul mentioned a well-liked event just like the BPL ought to happen yearly, whereas including that he was not conscious that the event 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 won’t happen. BPL is a well-liked event for Bangladesh,” Aminul instructed reporters in Dhaka on Sunday.
“You are saying the board president introduced some logical causes to you all. I feel a event just like the BPL must be held yearly,” he mentioned.
“Why it did not occur, we have to focus on. We’ll clearly monitor in future that this sort of competitors takes place frequently,” he concluded.
