Dhaka Premier League

[TheWatcher]

The league starts tomorrow and nobody else seems to be interested to start a thread, so here I go. Here is the list of our star players (international and domestic) playing for different teams-

Abahani
Faisal Hossain
Anwar Monir
Hasanuzzaman Rosel
Imran Ahmed (Barisal, Ex-national)
Shadab Kabir (Paki, LHB, supposed to join from 2nd round)

Biman
Sanwar Hossain(C)
SK Rasel
Javed Omar
Shahriar Hossain Biddut
Mushfiq Babu
Jamal Babu
Mohammed Sharif
Sajjad Kadir (Wk)
Mosharraf Hossain Rubel

Brothers
Ehsanul Haque (C)
Nafees Iqbal
Enamul Jr
Nazmul Hossain
Suhrawardi Shuvo
Rezaul Islam Rajon (U/19)
Rashedul Haque
Rashed Hanif (Paki)

City Club
Tushar Imran(C)
Rajin Saleh
Shahriar Nafees
Tatenda Taibu (Wk)
Alok Kapali
Tareq Aziz
Mehrab Jr
Anwar Hossain (Wk)
Ishraq Sonnet

Mohammedan
Habibul Bashar (C)
Khaled Masud (Wk)
Aftab Ahmed
Talha Jubair
Alamgir Kabir
Moniruzzaman (Sylhet)
Hannan Sarkar
Monjurul Islam (LMF)
Azam Iqbal
Shabbir Khan
Nadif Chowdury
Shamsur Rahman
Dhiman Ghosh

Old DOHS
Akram Khan (C)
Steve Tikolo
Khaled Mahmud
Manjarul Islam Rana
Shahadat Hossain
Hasibul Hossain
Golam Rahman
Mahmudullah Riyad
Farhad Reza
Nazimuddin
Shahin Hossain (Wk)
Abdur Razzak
Shafaq Al Zabir
Mohammed Shahzada

Sonargaon
Ashraful
Rafique
Tapash Baisya
Al Shahriar Rokon
Naimur Rahman Durjoy
Elias Sunny
Mohammad Selim (Wk)
Anisur Rahman Sanchay
Nabil Samad

Victoria
Sakib Al Hasan
Mushfiqur Rahim (Wk)
Wascoroni Polash
Zafar Kuraise (Paki)
Farhad Hossain

Kala Bagan
Fahim Muntasir
Tarek Mahmud (Paki)
Mehrab Hossain Opee

Orient SC
Tamim Iqbal

Agrani Bank
Raqibul Hasan (U/19)

PARTIAL FIXTURE
Dec 12:
DOHS v Sonargaon (DCS),
City v Kalabagan (FCS),
Victoria v Orient (BKSP),
Biman v Brothers (Comilla),
Abahani v Indira Road (Bogra),
Mohammedan v Agrani (BKSP)

Dec 15:
DOHS v Kalabagan (Bogra),
Orient v Sonargaon (Comilla),
City v Brothers (DCS),
Victoria v Indira (BKSP),
Biman v Agrani (BKSP),
Abahani v Mohammedan (FCS)

Dec 18:
DOHS v Orient (FCS),
Brothers v Kalabagan (DCS),
Indira v Sonargaon (BKSP),
City v Agrani (Bogra),
Victoria v Mohammedan (Comilla),
Biman v Abahani (BKSP)

Edited on, December 12, 2005, 11:31 AM GMT, by TheWatcher.

[CricTiger]

Considering all other games ,Cricket is one of the most popular game in our country and yet BCB could not manage a sponsor for the league which is really unfortunate.

[cricman]

Can't we get a company like Bata to sponser it, afterall Bata sponsers Zim cricket

[Zunaid]

So, who do you think has the strongest team on paper? Mohammedan appears to have built up the strongest team but old DOHS and City Club can give them a run for the money. I am not sure Ash and Sonargaon has enough firepower.

[cricman]

The team with one or more match winner who comes through the most will win.

So that leaves the competitiion down to
Abahani(Shadab Kabir)
City Club(Tushar Imran and Tatenda Taibu)
Sonargaon(Ashraful)
Old DOHS(Tikolo)
Mohammedan(Bashar and Aftab)

So if you look at all these players which one do you think will come big the most?

I know it's a team sport and the way i'm looking at it is very narrow minded, but if the best players play big that means that there team will have the best chance of winning.

[howzatt!]

city club, mohammedan and old DOHS seem to have built the strongest teams. disappointed to see abahani's line-up. also, surprised to see anisur rahman still playing.

Edited on, December 12, 2005, 3:11 AM GMT, by howzatt!.

[AsifTheManRahman]

owing to the two africans, i'd say city club and old dohs seem to have pretty decent teams. mohammedan seems to have formed the best all-desi squad this time round.

it's nice to see how cricket in dhaka is no longer limited to a certain bunch of clubs.

[nannu]

mohamedan stroongest team on paper. and i theink they will be champion with a far distance.

nannu ( the fan )

[thebest]

sonargaon cricketers lost to DOHS despite rafiq getting 5 wickets.
There are wins for Mohammedan, Abahoni, Brothers, City Club also
Stars of the day
Rafiq
Basar
S Nafis
S Tikolo

Flop of the Day
Asrafluk
Taibu

[sadi]

any scorecard??

[Tigers_eye]

Originally posted by Zunaid
So, who do you think has the strongest team on paper?

Brazil
Germany
Iran, Japan, Korea combined

[sadi]

jets :P

[yaseer]

Updates:

DOHS,Abahani, City Club, Biman, Mohammedan, Victoria won their respective matches.

Performances from star Players:

* 19/5 wickets for Md. Rafique
* 82 from Shahriar Nafees
* 80 from Habibul Bashar
* 84 from Ehsanul Haq Shezan....consistent performance from Shezan continues from the NCL
* 33/4 wickets for Nazmul Hossain
* 50 for Tushar Imran

No runs in the Bat of Ashraful yet..........out on 22 and his team has lost too.

Edited on, December 12, 2005, 3:46 PM GMT, by yaseer.

[sadi]

ash is very consistant in failing.....

[Ehsan]

I here by conclude that Ash's big performances are flukes. Its just his luck that gets him those hundreds once in a while. And the worse thing is he is getting all the money he wants without producing much of the runs. Pathetic!

When would our team have a talented, consistent batsman? Sigh...

Edited on, December 12, 2005, 4:26 PM GMT, by Ehsan.

[nannu]

Originally posted by Ehsan

When would our team have a talented, consistent batsman? Sigh...

cheer man because that day has come today,
are u familair with the name shahriar nafees?

nannu ( the cheer-uper man )

[sadi]

I second that. This kid is amazing and scoring consistently from NCL and continued his good form into the premier league.

[Beamer]

I ike the way Shahriar Nafees is progressing his career. He can play situational innings pretty well. He can defend when needs be and accelerate when demanded. Good going.

Bashar is among runs. Good news for us.

Ehsanul Haque Shejan is playing like he wants to get recalled to the national side.

Ashraful is very very dissapointing. I never though he values his wkt enough. I am not sure what he wants to be. He either goes into a total shell ( he was playing ultra defensive in '04 ) or comes out gung ho irrespective of the situation.

Aftab has jaundice now and out of action.

[oracle]

I ike the way Shahriar Nafees is progressing his career. He can play situational innings pretty well. He can defend when needs be and accelerate when demanded. Good going.

agree. he paces his innings well compared to some others in the team. What makes him stand out from let's say Rajin or Pilot, (i.e the other 2 who have reasonable ability to play a measured innings) is that he is a far more gifted strokeplayer .

i think he will do well as a test batsman. Not sure about his captaincy at the moment.

[AsifTheManRahman]

i agree with all of you. having watched nafees play (i'm sure most of you have, too ), i can say that he looks very good indeed - probably better than any of the other openers we've had since getting the ODI status. i don't want to jinx him (:P), but if he can keep his head cool and improve on his game, he can become a valuable asset for the team.

he is in fact my favourite in the current BD team.

[sabbir ahmad]

how i can get dhaka premier league result?pls help me

[Ehsan]

Shahriar Nafess is a good prospect, but he is not there yet in terms of international cricket. And at the moment I think only him and Aftab has the ability to be more consistent than any other batsmen in our team. You may wanna include Javed Omar for the test consistency, he is getting there too. Bashar hmm...haven't really seen anything special from him lately.

[sabbir ahmad]

how can i get in to the chat room

[AsifTheManRahman]

Originally posted by Ehsan
Bashar hmm...haven't really seen anything special from him lately.

you sure? what about the 80 odd against sri lanka that could very well have been a 100 had he not been unfortunate with a certain third-umpire decision?

[AsifTheManRahman]

Originally posted by Ehsan
I here by conclude that Ash's big performances are flukes. Its just his luck that gets him those hundreds once in a while. And the worse thing is he is getting all the money he wants without producing much of the runs. Pathetic!

When would our team have a talented, consistent batsman? Sigh...

Edited on, December 12, 2005, 4:26 PM GMT, by Ehsan.

see the thing with ashraful is that he is immensely talented, and whenever he scores (irrespective of how very rarely that might be), he seems to create history. the test century against sri lanka, the quick 50 against the full-strength zim team in their own backyard, the odi ton against the aussies and the 94 against the pommies are all relevant examples. you never know when he will score - he's just so inconsistent. i'm also not sure that we can afford to drop him from the squad, given our small pool of cricketers of international class.

having said that, i agree that playing like dog poo in return for 9 lakhs is not fair at all, and that we might as well sit him out for a couple of matches if he doesn't do so well in the next couple of series. this might help him rethink about his game and make a grand come-back. however, i have a feeling that he may not be as inconsistent as it looks like. his performance in the natwest series was awesome, and we probably shouldn't judge him from a single series against the lankans; but then again he did fail in the test series in england, and many times before that as well. i remember he had a pretty high batting average this year until the beginning of the sri lankan tour (if i recall correctly). i will try to dig up some stats if i have the time.

besides, i believe that we expect too much from him at times, which actually makes the whole inconsistency thing look even bigger. i am of the opinion that if we want ash's head, we'd probably want aftab's first.

Edited on, December 13, 2005, 8:19 AM GMT, by AsifTheManRahman.