NCL 2022, Oct 10 - Nov 17

[Eshen]

The domestic season opener, NCL, is scheduled to begin from October 10 this year. The tournament may carry a special significance this year as it will be followed by the home Test series against India late November.

Chattogram, who earned their promotion back to tier 1 last year, may be the team to watch this year. The side may include Test team regulars such as Tamim Iqbal, Mahmudul Hasan Joy, Mominul Haque, Nayeem Hasan, as well as last season's top wicket taker Hasan Murad. The team may also include exciting batting prospects like Parvez Hossain Emon, Shahadat Hossain Dipu, Pinak Ghosh, and Shamim Patwari. Chattogram also have the advantage of having rising home grown coaches in Aftab Ahmed and Nazimuddin.

From this year, BCB will use Duke balls in NCL, providing advantage to seam/swing bowlers like Abu Jayed, Mrittunjoy Chowdhury, Ripon Mondol, etc. As usual, Sylhet is likely to have the best pace quartet in Abu Jayed, Khaled Ahmed, Rejaur Rahman Raja, and Tanzim Sakib, under the guidance of bowling coach Nazmul Hossain and supported by current domestic FC leading wicket taker Enamul Haque Jr.

Veteran Alok Kapali, Rubel Hossain, and Shafiul Islam announced their retirements from FC cricket ahead of the tournament. Tushar Imran, the Bangladeshi batter with highest number of FC runs, announced his retirement from all formats of cricket at the end of last NCL. So he will be missing as well.

[Shingara]

Alok and tushar gone?
Rubel and Shafiul gone too?

[Eshen]

Originally Posted by Shingara
Alok and tushar gone?
Rubel and Shafiul gone too?

You may still see Alok, Rubel, and Shafiul in BPL or DPL. But Tushar retired from all formats of competitive cricket (he was not getting chances in ListA or T20 anyway).

[al Furqaan]

Dukes ball? interesting. Will be expensive, although with the GBP at historic lows, maybe slightly cheaper than before.

[Eshen]

Tamim Iqbal informed media that he will participate in the first two rounds of NCL. However, he then will focus on individual skill training, leading to India series.

Mushfiq will miss first few rounds as he has picked up an injury at gym. He will start his training from Oct 17.

On contrary to other two senior campaigners, Riyad refused to participate at all this NCL. Nannu offered him chance to play for the A-team at Chennai, which he refused as well.

The NCL first half will be quite depleted as the national team is away and the A-team is leaving to play matches against a Tamilnadu state side. Hope to see some new talents coming up in this vacuum.

[Night_wolf]

Originally Posted by Eshen
Tamim Iqbal informed media that he will participate in the first two rounds of NCL. However, he then will focus on individual skill training, leading to India series.

Mushfiq will miss first few rounds as he has picked up an injury at gym. He will start his training from Oct 17.

On contrary to other two senior campaigners, Riyad refused to participate at all this NCL. Nannu offered him chance to play for the A-team at Chennai, which he refused as well.

The NCL first half will be quite depleted as the national team is away and the A-team is leaving to play matches against a Tamilnadu state side. Hope to see some new talents coming up in this vacuum.

I was furious at first at mullah's attitude but then again he is retired from test cricket..no point playing FC for him. Also A team tours should be for future talents. Why nannu asked him to be on the A team tour is beyond me..wait not beyond me because nannu is an idiot

[godzilla]

Originally Posted by Night_wolf
I was furious at first at mullah's attitude but then again he is retired from test cricket..no point playing FC for him. Also A team tours should be for future talents. Why nannu asked him to be on the A team tour is beyond me..wait not beyond me because nannu is an idiot

Yeah, this is a mystery too. A-team is for players who may get a chance in the national team. Not for a core member who is well-established in the ODI team. BD selectors man, no common sense.

[Eshen]

Squads announced.

Tier 1 teams -

Dhaka Division:
Rony Talukdar, Abdul Majid, Raqibul Hasan, Mahidul Islam Ankon (WK), Taibur Rahman (Captain), Shuvagata Hom, Nadif Chowdhury, Nazmul Islam Apu, Ripon Mondol, Salauddin Sakil, Sumon Khan, Shahbaz Chowhan, Arafat Sunny Jr, Hossain Ali

Rangpur Division:
Zahid Zabed, Myshukur Rahman, Naeem Islam, Akbar Ali (Captain, WK), Nasir Hossain, Ariful Haque, Robiul Haque, Musfik Hasan, Alauddin Babu, Rishad Hossain, Abdullah Al Mamun, Tanbir Haider, Mahmudul Hasan, Abu Hasim

Sylhet Division:
Imtiaz Hossain, Mizanur Rahman, Amite Hasan, Zakir Hasan (Captain, WK), Asadullah Galib, Toufiq Khan, Abu Bakkor, Shahnur Rahman, Rahatul Ferdous, Abu Jayed, Tanzim Sakib, Nabil Samad, Mohiuddin Tareq, Nayeem Ahmed

Chattogram Division:
Tamim Iqbal, Pinak Ghosh, Parvez Emon, Sabbir Hossain, Irfan Shukkur (Captain, WK), Shamim Patwari, Shykat Ali, Iftekhar Sazzad, Mehedi Hasan Rana, Yeasin Arafat Mishu, Mehedi Hasan, Hasan Murad, Ahmed Sharif, Jasim Uddin (WK)


Tier Two-

Khulna Division:
Imrul Kayes (Captain), Sheikh Mahedi, Prantik Nawrose Nabil, Robiul Islam Robi, Amit Majumder, Salman Hossain, Ziaur Rahman, Nahidul Islam, Raihan Uddin, Tipu Sultan, Asikuzzaman, Al Amin Hossain, Abdul Halim, Imranuzzaman

Barisal Division:
Ashraful, Fazle Rabbi (Captain), Salman Hossain, Shamsul Islam Anik, Kamrul Islam Rabbi, Ruyel Mia, Linkon Kumar Dey, Shahin Alam, Sohag Gazi, Tanvir Islam, Abu Sayem, Rafsan Mahmud, Nuruzzaman, Moin Khan

Rajshahi Division:
Junaid Siddique, Tanzid Tamim, Jahurul Islam, Farhad Hossain (Captain), Towhid Hridoy, Pritom Kumar (WK), Farhad Reza, Sanzamul Islam, Taijul Islam, Mehrob Hossain, Asaduzzaman Payel, Nahid Rana, Shafiqul Islam, Shakhir Hossain

Dhaka Metro:
Naim Sheikh (Captain), Mahfijul Islam Robin, Shamsur Rahman, Marshall Ayub, Aich Mollah, Zahiduzzaman Khan (WK), Sharifullah, Qazi Anik, Abu Haider Rony, Manik Khan, Galib, Rakibul Hasan, Aminul Islam Biplob, Minhajul Sabbir

[Eshen]

Bowlers dominated NCL day 1. Swing bowler Sumon Khan took a fifer (including wickets of Nasir Hossain and Akbar Ali). Veteran Nabil Samad got a fifer as well.

Scorecards: https://www.tigercricket.com.bd/live...league-2022-23

[Eshen]

Thanks to their pacers, defending champion Dhaka Division defeated Rangpur, by an innings, within a day and half. Sumon Khan took a total of 9 wickets in the match. Debutante Musfik Hasan (Rangpur) took a fifer as well, though for a losing cause.

At Chattogram, Hasan Murad got his season's first fifer as well.

[Eshen]

Musfik strive to bowl at 150+ KPH, eventually

[al Furqaan]

Best of luck to Musfik.

[Eshen]

Start of the A-team tour has been pushed out to Oct 24. Hope to see A-team players playing for their respective NCL sides in the second round matches, which start from today.

[Eshen]

Musfik bowled out Tamim and got the wicket of Joy as well! I am psyched about this boy!

https://cricheroes.in/scorecard/4564...s-Rangpur-(NCL)

[Eshen]

In terms of experience, we have batters that are years (in some cases, decades) ahead of group of pacers that are dominating this NCL. Yet, they have been so hapless so far on good pitches against duke ball!

Even Ashraful, who plays regularly against duke ball in English village leagues, got bowled cheaply by Zia's medium pace!

[Eshen]

Tamim totally missed that inswing from Musfik. He should play more matches in NCL to get the rust out of his batting.

[Eshen]

Among all the batting disasters, Mushfiq went on to get the first century of the season (still not out):

https://cricheroes.in/scorecard/4564...s-Rajshahi(NCL)

[Eshen]

Poor Mehedi Rana has been banned from playing rest of the NCL, as he complained in an FB status how a selector (without naming the selector) treated him poorly.

১১ অক্টোবর ফেসবুকে নিজের ভেরিফায়েড পেজ থেকে একটি স্ট্যাটাস পোস্ট করেন রানা। সেখানে তিনি দাবি করেন, বিসিবির একজন নির্বাচক তাঁকে ‘এ’ দলে যোগ দিতে ফোনে জানিয়েছিলেন। কিন্তু ‘পরদিন থেকে অনুশীলন শুরু হয়ে গেলেও’ সেখানে তাঁকে রাখা হয়নি। রানার দাবি, ১০-১২ বার ফোন করার পরও ওই নির্বাচক তাঁর ফোন ধরেননি। ওই নির্বাচককে ইঙ্গিত করে রানা মন্তব্য করেন, ‘যোগ্য মানুষ যোগ্য জায়গায় না থাকলে কাজ হবে না।’ অবশ্য কোন নির্বাচকের সঙ্গে তাঁর যোগাযোগ হয়েছিল, সেটি তিনি লেখেননি। একটু পর স্ট্যাটাসটি মুছেও ফেলেন।

৫ অক্টোবর ভারত সফরের জন্য চার দিন ও এক দিনের ম্যাচের জন্য আলাদা দুটি দল ঘোষণা করে বিসিবি। কোনো সংস্করণের দলেই ছিলেন না এ বাঁহাতি পেসার।

তাঁর শাস্তির ব্যাপারে বিসিবির সংবাদ বিজ্ঞপ্তিতে বলা হয়েছে, রানার নিষেধাজ্ঞা কার্যকর হবে আজ থেকেই। ‘বিসিবিতে নিবন্ধিত কোনো ক্রিকেটারের কাছ থেকে সামাজিক যোগাযোগমাধ্যম ও জাতীয় সংবাদপত্রে এ বাঁহাতি পেসারের মন্তব্যকে অগ্রহণযোগ্য মনে হয়েছে’—জানিয়েছে বিসিবি। কঠোরভাবে তাঁকে সতর্কও করা হয়েছে।

- Prothom Alo

[Eshen]

Despite having Tamim, Chattogram lost both of their matches so far. Tamim told journalists that he would play only two rounds in NCL, and then would focus on his individual training sessions before India series. His current form doesn't look good. In the last match against Rangpur pacers, he was clean bowled in the first innings, and then caught behind in the second. IMO, he should take the opportunity to play the next round against Dhaka (whose pacers are doing quite well!) on a freshly laid Bogra pitch.

[Aritro]

It's amazing how little esteem it shows for this competition that a player would rather train than play in it. Hard to imagine it happening in too many other first class competition.

Thanks for the above heads up about Mushfik Hasan as well. He's coming along nicely. That one that got Tamim was a beauty.

[Eshen]

[Aritro]

Loving that there's plenty of grass on the pitches. There's some cause to be optimistic that they're actually working on our problems.

[Eshen]

Though Saifuddin went wicketless, he bowled some beauties in Bogra!

[Eshen]

Is Rahi still the best seam/swing bowler we have?


19 years old Abdullah Al Mamun is showing good promise!

[Eshen]

U/19 batter Abdullah Al Mamun got his maiden double century (not out) on the 2nd FC match of his career




Yeasin Arafat Mishu made a beautiful display of pace, swing, and bounce in the last round