Cricket of Asia

The Bangladesh Premier League (BPL, also known as BRB BPL) is a professional Bangladeshi Twenty20 cricket league consisting of six teams, which was established by the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) in 2012 and is the highest professional cricket league in Bangladesh. The BPL's three-week league games runs from the last week of November to the second week of December and the championship game is held on the day before Victory Day. Each team plays ten league games in a double Round-robin format. Following the conclusion of the league matches, four teams advance to the semi-finals, a single-elimination tournament culminating in the Championship game, played between the two winners of the semi-finals.[1][2]

The BPL was formed in 2012 by the BCB, with six original founding club franchises. After the first two seasons, all six franchises were suspended by the governing committee for violating the tournament regulations. Due to that, the third edition was indefinitely postponed, and was later held in 2015 with six new franchises. The number of teams will be increased to eight from the fourth edition of the tournament.[3] The BPL had the third highest average attendance among all cricket leagues with respect to the average crowd per match during the 2015 season. In 2016, the BPL was revealed as the second most followed cricket league in the world, second to the Indian Premier League (IPL).[4] The brand valuation of BPL is estimated at around $500 million.[5]

As of 2015, Mushfiqur Rahim leads with most runs (819) while Kevon Cooper has the most wickets (49).[6] With two BPL championships, Dhaka Dynamites is the most successful team of the tournament. The current champions are the Comilla Victorians, who defeated the Barisal Bulls by three wickets in BPL III.

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