BCB to Give Contracts to 120 Players

The Bangladesh Cricket Board has decided it will give one-year contracts to 120 cricketers from January next year.

Fifteen players from each of the eight designated region – Barisal, ambulance Khulna, physician Rajshahi, Chittagong, Sylhet, Rangpur, Dhaka and Dhaka Metropolis – to make Bangladeshi cricket less Dhaka.

BCB president Mustafa Kamal annouced the radical initiative an emergency board meeting. “We have decided to bring 120 cricketers under our umbrella by giving them contracts, which will include the national team players,” he said. “The aim is for grassroots development so there will be 15 cricketers from each of the eight regions. It will be effective from January next year, and we will also cover their insurance premium.”

Kamal said the board will spend Bangladeshi taka 35 million (approx. US $425,000) annually on the contracts. The payment scale will depend on experience and selection will be based on performance.

The board will appoint eight former cricketers as cricket operations managers. “They will be salaried by the BCB but under one condition, they have to be former players from the region,” Kamal said. “For example, someone from Rajshahi will be the operations manager for that region, not that of Sylhet, so that he can coordinate with everyone in that region.”

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