The first edition of the Bangladesh Premier League
(BPL) will kick off on February 9, 2012 with the final to be played on February
29. The 20-day tournament will feature six teams that will play each other
twice each in a round-robin format over 33 matches to be held in Chittagong and
Dhaka.
Teams will be allowed to field five foreign players in their XIs, as opposed to four in the IPL. Adam Gilchrist, Mathew Hayden, Kieron Pollard, Dwayne Bravo, Kamran Akmal and James Anderson are among at least 25 foreign players who have made themselves available for the tournament.
