Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) is going to introduce the Umpire Decision Review System (UDRS or DRS) from its new season that will begin on January 5, 2019. Also, the players draft will be held on October 25, 2018.

The sixth edition of BPL (2018/19 BPL) has been scheduled to be played from January 5 to February 8, 2019. The BPL governing council members have decided to introduce the DRS from the new season and it will be similar to T20I rules.

BPL member secretary Ismail Haider said on Saturday, “There will be review [UDRS] in the BPL. Each team will have a review in every innings. There will be one foreign umpire in each match.”

Ismail has also announced that the players draft will be held on October 25. While the maximum four players can be retained by each team within September, maximum two more players can be added from outside the draft.

Ismail said on this, “Player draft will be held on 25th October. Each team can retain up to four players. The name of the [retained] players must be submitted by the clubs within September,” he added.

“Each team can take two players from outside the draft. Everyone else will have to bought from the draft. The foreigners who have played BPL last time have to be drafted this year.

“The franchises can take two players from those who were not in the draft last time. The January 5th date may be pushed for a day. There are many good quality players. Since there will be the national election this year, our date of play has been pushed back to January [next year].

“The other leagues will start at that time. As a result, it has been decided to take two unregistered players to fill the amount of players required by each team.”

Initially, the tournament was scheduled to run between October 1 and November 16, 2018, but it was changed at later due to the national general elections.