2012 Bangladesh Premier League to start from February 9

The 2012 Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) season will be the first season of the Bangladesh Premier League. The season will commence on the 9th of February with the final to be played on the 29th of February.

The competition will start with a double round robin group stage, in which each of the 6 teams will play against every other team twice. These matches will followed by two semi-finals and a final

The highest wicket taker will win the purple cap for being the top wicket-taking bowler while the highest run scorer will win the orange cap for leading run-scorer in the tournament. Best young player will be awarded the best under-19 player award and the special award for Fair Play will be won by the team who will play most fairly throughout the tournament.

Logo of BPL

Matches will be held in Dhaka and Chittagong with a total of six franchises taking part. The franchises will represent Dhaka,Barisal, Chittagong, Rajshahi, Sylhet and Khulna divisions. The franchise auction was held on January 10 and the player was taken place on 18 and 19 january. Each franchise will have to spend between US$2 million and US$5 million at the player auction.

On 21 December, the event Management Company bought the tournament title for six years for 44.33 million dollars, or at 354 crores.

Mirpur Stadium 

Bangladesh Premier league opening ceremony will be arranged in world class standard. For this, a number of Indian companies submitted their proposals. This includes one of the Bollywood actor Chunky Pandey.

The opening ceremony will be for 2 and half hour. The culture and history of freedom fighting of Bangladesh will be display in this show. For BPL opening ceremony, popular bollywood star Saif Ali Khan, Kareena Kapoor,Deepika Padukone are likely to be present. The popular singers Shaan, Shreya Ghoshal and Sunidhi Chauhan will also arrive Dhaka in that time for BPL.

Excitement regarding Bangladesh Premier League (BPL)start to spread in Bangladesh. The news spread around already that Shahrukh Khan and Katrina Kaif will be involved with this tournament.

According to tournament organizing committee, India's most eye-catching singer Shreya Ghoshal will perform in the tournament kick off show.

Zohur Ahmed Chowdhury, Chittagong

There will a opening ceremony for BPL T20 Cricket tournament on 9 February before start of the tournament on 10 February. Tournament will held at in Mirpur Stadium, Dhaka and Chittagong Zohur Ahmed Chowdhury. Total 33 matches will be played. BPL franchises team auction held on January 10.

The teams are as Follows:

BPL TEAMS

Teams

Dhaka Gladiators

Barisal Burners.

Chittagong Kings

Khulna Royal Bengals

Duronto Rajshahi

Sylhet Royals