Dhaka franchise to get a new owner

Dhaka to get a new owner as Rupa Fabrics Ltd & Marn Steel Ltd (Consortium) failed to meet the compliance requirements with the Bangladesh Cricket Board, said the BCB CEO, Nizamuddin Chowdhury. 

BCB, in a media release, sent on December 22 state that Rupa Fabrics Ltd & Marn Steel Ltd (Consortium) was awarded the ownership interest of Dhaka Franchise. 

In the social and mainstream media, owners of the franchise were campaigning for their team, even they claimed that they have signed Soumya Sarkar as a player from outside the draft.

But on the day before the players' draft, BCB canceled the ownership right of Dhaka, as Rupa Fabrics and Marn Steel Ltd (Consortium) failed to meet the compliance level set by the BCB.

CEO Nizamuddin said, "We won’t say that they have failed to meet up our financial demand rather we would like to say that they failed to fulfill our compliances. We are hoping to finalize the new franchise before the completion takes place as still, it is two weeks more to go", he told the reporters.

BCB's disarray with the franchise distribution and management is nothing new and unlikely as it has been one of the consistent characteristics of the BPL along with payment default issues. 

The previous seven editions of the BPL was held in seven different ways where some franchise vanished into the thin air right after taking part in one edition and the void was filled in with two new franchises but they also suffer the same fate as BCB took the charge into their own hands in the last edition in 2019.