Xtra Time Web Desk: Former Indian Premier League (IPL) champion cricketers Manvinder Bisla and Manpreet Gony will be among the three Indian cricketers who will be part of the players draft for Bangladesh Premier League next season. Both Gony and Bisla have won the Indian Premier League for their respective former franchise Kolkata Knight Riders and Chennai Super Kings. Former Rajasthan Royals player Kumar Boresa is also part of the player’s draft. The BPL will begin later this year on December 11. Bisla played a special knock in the final of the 2012 IPL as Kolkata Knight Riders claimed their first IPL trophy.
Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) president Nazmul Hasan has said efforts are on to increase the participation of Indian players in the T20 league, which has been revamped after being hit by scandals over match-fixing and delays in payment.
The league, launched in 2011, has now been taken control of by BCB, the country’s cricket board, and has been renamed as the ‘Bangabandhu BPL’.
“We proposed to bring in Indian players who are outside the contract of their board (BCCI). They can play in principle,” BCB president Nazmul Hassan told reporters in Dhaka on Saturday night.
He also added, “I am not sure if we will get them in this BPL, but hopefully we will get them in future. Will try for them in this BPL too.”
The BCCI does not allow cricketers under its contract to feature in foreign T20 leagues. Some, like Yuvraj Singh, have played in some foreign leagues after retiring from all forms of cricket.
Bisla, Gony and Boresa, the three Indians who are likely to be picked by teams for this season’s BPL, are not part of the BCCI’s central contract system.