The Bangladesh Premier League 2023, also known as BPL Season 9 or Ispahani BPL 2023 (for sponsorship reasons) was the ninth season of the

Bangladesh Premier League Bangladesh Premier League (), also known as Dutch-Bangla Bank BPL for sponsorship reasons, is a professional Twenty20 cricket league in Bangladesh organised by the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB). It was formed in 2011 by the BCB, after the su ...

(BPL), the top-level professional

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league in

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, organized by the

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(BCB). In July 2022, after the

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accommodated the month of January and February for this league in its Future Tours Programme, the BCB announced the schedule of the BPL for the next three seasons. Accordingly, the ninth season was scheduled to be held from 5 January to 16 February in 2023. BCB also decided to increase the number of teams to 7 and to sell the franchise rights for 3 years from this season. BCB announced the list of franchise owners in September 2022, with five of the previous six franchises retaining ownership and the return of

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after two seasons. On 24 December 2022, BCB announced the fixtures for this season with two matches to be played per day in the group stage and having reserve days for all of the knockout matches. In the final, Comilla Victorians defeated Sylhet Strikers by 7 wickets to win their second successive and overall fourth title.

Draft and squads

Before the draft

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signed up 10 players through direct recruitment, the most by any team. Unmukt Chand, former Indian cricketer also registered for the draft, being the only Indian so far to have registered in BPL's players' draft. Before the draft, each team was allowed to recruit directly only one domestic player and unlimited number of foreign players. The players' draft was held on 23 November 2022. Each team are allowed to pick up a minimum of 12 players from the draft, at least ten local players and two foreign players. But there is no maximum limit of picking up foreign players from the draft.

Venues

Teams and standings

Points Table

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League stage

Phase 1 (Dhaka)

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Phase 2 (Chittagong)

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Phase 3 (Dhaka)

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Playoffs

Eliminator

Qualifiers

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Final

Statistics

Most runs

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Cricinfo.com

Most wickets

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Highest team totals

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Prizes and awards

The following prizes were given after the final match.

References

External links

League home at ESPNCricinfo
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