The Bangladesh Premier League 2019, also known as BPL Season 6 or UCB BPL 2019 Powered by TVS (for sponsorship reasons), was the sixth season of the

Bangladesh Premier League Bangladesh Premier League (), also known as Dutch-Bangla Bank BPL for sponsorship reasons, is a professional Twenty20 cricket league in Bangladesh organised by the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB). It was formed in 2011 by the BCB, after the su ...

(BPL), the top level professional

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franchise league in Bangladesh. The competition was organised by the

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(BCB), featuring seven teams from seven cities. Teams are restricted to having four overseas players per side, instead of five in the previous edition of the tournament.

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were the defending champions. Originally, the season was scheduled to start on 1 October 2018 and end on 16 November 2018. However, in May 2018, it was reported that the tournament might be moved to January 2019, because of security concerns around the Bangladeshi general election, which took place in December 2018. In July 2018, it was confirmed that the tournament would start in January 2019. For this edition of the tournament, the

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(DRS) were used for the first time. In the final match,

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defeated

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by 17 runs to win their second title. In the final match,

Tamim Iqbal Tamim Iqbal Khan ( Bengali: তামিম ইকবাল খান; born 20 March 1989), commonly known as Tamim Iqbal, is a Bangladeshi former international cricketer and commentator from Chittagong who was captain of the national team in O ...

was awarded the man of the match award, after scoring 141

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was the leading run scorer in the tournament with 558 runs.

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was the leading wicket taker with 22 wickets and also won the player of the tournament award.

Draft and squads

By 30 September 2018 teams announced the names of their retained players and their icon players. A players' draft was initially scheduled to take place on 25 October 2018. However, the date was moved to 28 October due to a schedule clash with the ODI series between Bangladesh and Zimbabwe. Teams added to their squads in the draft.

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and

Mustafizur Rahman Mustafizur Rahman (Bengali: মুস্তাফিজুর রহমান; born 6 September 1995) is a Bangladeshi international cricketer. A left-arm fast-medium bowler, he is recognized for his most prolific 'slower cutters' all over t ...

were new additions to the list while

Soumya Sarkar Soumya Sarkar (; born 25 February 1993) is a Bangladeshi cricketer. He is a left-handed batter and a right arm medium-fast bowler who mainly plays as an opening batter. He is the only batter to hit 2 sixes in the first over in a T20 World Cup ...

and

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were excluded from the list. Initially, Steve Smith was barred from playing in the tournament by the

(BCB). However, the BCB overturned its decision, allowing Smith to take part in the competition.

Venues

A total of 46 matches were played at three venues, with the playoffs and final held at Dhaka. Dhaka hosted 14 matches in the first phase of the competition, then Sylhet hosted eight matches, followed by a further six matches in Dhaka in the third phase while, before Chittagong hosted 10 matches during the fourth phase.

Results

Points table

* advanced to the

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* advanced to the

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League progression

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League stage

A total of 42 matches were played in the league stage, with 24 matches played in Dhaka, 8 matches in Sylhet and 10 in Chittagong.

Phase 1 (Dhaka)

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Phase 2 (Sylhet)

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Phase 3 (Dhaka)

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Phase 4 (Chittagong)

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Phase 5 (Dhaka)

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Playoffs

Eliminator

Qualifiers

;Qualifier 1 ---- ;Qualifier 2

Final

Statistics

*Source
Cricinfo.com
*Source

*Source

References

External links

Series home at ESPN Cricinfo
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