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Bangladesh Premier League 2019

2019 BPL Logo
Dates	5 January 2019 – 8 February 2019
Administrator(s)	Bangladesh Cricket Board
Cricket format	Twenty20
Tournament format(s)	Double round-robin and playoffs
Host(s)	Bangladesh
Champions	Comilla Victorians (2nd title)
Runners-up	Dhaka Dynamites
Participants	7
Matches	46
Player of the series	Shakib Al Hasan (Dhaka Dynamites)
Most runs	Rilee Rossouw (Rangpur Riders) (558)
Most wickets	Shakib Al Hasan (Dhaka Dynamites) (23)
Official website	BPL
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The Bangladesh Premier League 2019, also known as BPL Season 6 or UCB BPL 2019 Powered by TVS (for sponsorship reasons), was the sixth season of the Bangladesh Premier League (BPL), the top level professional Twenty20 cricket franchise league in Bangladesh. The competition was organised by the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB), featuring seven teams from seven cities. Teams are restricted to having four overseas players per side, instead of five in the previous edition of the tournament. Rangpur Riders were the defending champions.

Originally, the season was scheduled to start on 1 October 2018 and end on 16 November 2018. However, in May 2018, it was reported that the tournament might be moved to January 2019, because of security concerns around the Bangladeshi general election, which took place in December 2018. In July 2018, it was confirmed that the tournament would start in January 2019. For this edition of the tournament, the Decision Review System (DRS) were used for the first time.

In the final match, Comilla Victorians defeated Dhaka Dynamites by 17 runs to win their second title. In the final match, Tamim Iqbal was awarded the man of the match award, after scoring 141 not out. Rilee Rossouw was the leading run scorer in the tournament with 558 runs. Shakib Al Hasan was the leading wicket taker with 22 wickets and also won the player of the tournament award.

Draft and squads

By 30 September 2018 the team franchises announced the names of their retained players for the tournament and their icon players. A players' draft was initially scheduled to take place on 25 October 2018. However, the date was moved to 28 October due to a schedule clash with the ODI series between Bangladesh and Zimbabwe.

The rest of the players were bought from the Players' Draft, which was held on 28 October 2018. Litton Das and Mustafizur Rahman were new additions to the list while Soumya Sarkar and Sabbir Rahman were excluded from the list. Initially, Steve Smith was barred from playing in the tournament by the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB). However, the BCB overturned its decision, allowing Smith to take part in the competition.

Venues

A total of 46 matches was played in these venues with the playoffs and final will be held at Dhaka. This season 3 venues will host all matches in 4 phases. In the first phase Dhaka will host 14 matches then Sylhet will host 8 matches in the second phase. Dhaka will again host 6 matches in the third phase while then Chittagong will host 10 matches of fourth phase. Final tournament will return to Dhaka again for playoffs and Final matches.

Chittagong	Dhaka	Sylhet
Zohur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium	Sher-e-Bangla Cricket Stadium	Sylhet International Cricket Stadium
Capacity: 20,000	Capacity: 26,000	Capacity: 18,500
Matches: 10	Matches: 28 (incl. Playoffs)	Matches: 8
ChittagongDhakaSylhet

Results

Points table

•   advanced to the Qualifier 1
•   advanced to the Eliminator

League progression

Note: The total points at the end of each group match are listed.

Note: Click on the points (group matches) or W/L (Playoffs) to see the match summary.

League stage

A total of 42 matches were played in the league stage, with 24 matches played in Dhaka, 8 matches in Sylhet and 10 in Chittagong.

Phase 1 (Dhaka)

• Chittagong Vikings won the toss and elected to field.

• Rajshahi Kings won the toss and elected to field.
• Mohor Sheikh (Dhaka Dynamites) made his T20 debut.

• Comilla Victorians won the toss and elected to field.
• Towhid Hridoy (Sylhet Sixers) made his T20 debut.

• Khulna Titans won the toss and elected to field.

• Khulna Titans won the toss and elected to field.

• Rangpur Riders won the toss and elected to field.

• Sylhet Sixers won the toss and elected to bat.

• Khulna Titans won the toss and elected to bat.

• Rangpur Riders won the toss and elected to field.
• Aliss Islam (Dhaka Dynamites) made his T20 debut and took a hat-trick.

• Comilla Victorians won the toss and elected to field.

• Chittagong Vikings won the toss and elected to field.
• Mahidul Islam Ankon (Khulna Titans) made his T20 debut.

• Dhaka Dynamites won the toss and elected to bat.
• Mohammad Naim (Dhaka Dynamites) made his T20 debut.

• Rangpur Riders won the toss and elected to field.

• Chittagong Vikings won the toss and elected to field.

Phase 2 (Sylhet)

• Khulna Titans won the toss and elected to bat.

• Comilla Victorians won the toss and elected to field.

• Rajshahi Kings won the toss and elected to bat.

• Rangpur Riders won the toss and elected to field.
• Jaker Ali (Sylhet Sixers) made his T20 debut.

• Sylhet Sixers won the toss and elected to bat.

• Comilla Victorians won the toss and elected to field.

• Rangpur Riders won the toss and elected to field.

• Khulna Titans won the toss and elected to field.

Phase 3 (Dhaka)

• Comilla Victorians won the toss and elected to field.
• Laurie Evans (Rajshahi Kings) scored his first century in T20 cricket.

• Dhaka Dynamites won the toss and elected to bat.

• Rangpur Riders won the toss and elected to field.
• Chris Gayle (Rangpur Riders) became the first batsman to hit 900 sixes in T20 Cricket.

• Dhaka Dynamites won the toss and elected to field.
• Shakib Al Hasan (Dhaka Dynamites) became first bowler to take 100 wickets in the BPL.

• Chittagong Vikings won the toss and elected to field.

• Sylhet Sixers won the toss and elected to field.

Phase 4 (Chittagong)

• Rajshahi Kings won the toss and elected to field.

• Chittagong Vikings won the toss and elected to field.
• Robiul Haque (Chittagong Vikings) made his T20 debut.
• Rangpur Riders recorded highest ever team total in BPL history.
• Rilee Rossouw and Alex Hales (Rangpur Riders) both scored century, making it only third instances in T20 history of two batsmen scored hundreds in the same team innings.

• Sylhet Sixers won the toss and elected to bat.

• Chittagong Vikings won the toss and elected to field.

• Khulna Titans won the toss and elected to field.
• Wahab Riaz (Comilla Victorians) took a hat-trick.

• Dhaka Dynamites won the toss and elected to bat.

• Chittagong Vikings won the toss and elected to bat.
• The match was reduced to 19 overs per side due to rain.

• Rajshahi Kings won the toss and elected to bat.

• Chittagong Vikings won the toss and elected to bat.
• Andre Russell (Dhaka Dynamites) took a hat-trick.

• Sylhet Sixers won the toss and elected to bat.

Phase 5 (Dhaka)

• Dhaka Dynamites won the toss and elected to field.

• Chittagong Vikings won the toss and elected to field.

• Comilla Victorians won the toss and elected to bat.
• Sanjit Saha (Comilla Victorians) and Minhajul Abedin Afridi (Rangpur Riders) both made their T20 debuts.

• Khulna Titans won the toss and elected to bat.

Playoffs

Eliminator

• Chittagong Vikings won the toss and elected to bat.
• As a result of this match, Dhaka advanced to Qualifier 2 while Chittagong were eliminated.

Qualifiers

Qualifier 1

• Rangpur Riders won the toss and elected to bat.
• As a result of this match, Comilla advanced to the Final while Rangpur advanced to Qualifier 2

Qualifier 2

• Dhaka Dynamites won the toss and elected to field.
• As a result of this match, Dhaka advanced to the Final while Rangpur were eliminated.

Final

• Dhaka Dynamites won the toss and elected to field.
• Tamim Iqbal (Comilla Victorians) scored his highest individual score in T20 cricket and it was also first time a century was scored by a Bangladeshi batsman in any T20 cricket final.
• Comilla Victorians won their second BPL title.

Statistics

Most runs

Most wickets

Highest team totals

See also

• Chittagong Vikings in 2019
• Comilla Victorians in 2019
• Dhaka Dynamites in 2019

References

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External links

• Series home at ESPN Cricinfo

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