In the upcoming edition of the Bangladesh Premier League (BPL), a new rule has been introduced. Each of the seven teams has been asked to include an overseas pacer who bowls above 140 kmph and a leg-spinner in the squad. The Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) has come up with this decision to keep an eye on expanding the national pool of players.

“BCB wants this BPL to be about improving Bangladesh’s cricketers in T20s, so we want to make sure that our batsmen and bowlers get enough opportunities (against quicks and leg-spinners), something that was not possible when it was a franchise-based BPL,” ESPNcricinfo quoted Bangladesh Cricket Board director Mahbubul Anam as saying.

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Along with this, each team has also been asked to have an overseas coach, physiotherapist and trainer, while the local coaches have been restricted to as assistants to the head coaches. The next BPL season will not be a franchise-run affair and, instead, it will be owned by the cricket board after it’s clash with six of the seven existing team owners, the only exception was Dhaka Dynamites among them.