The Bangladesh Premier League 2022, also known as BPL Season 8 or Bangabandhu BPL 2022 (for sponsorship reasons), was the eighth 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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league in

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, organized by the

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(BCB). The season was scheduled to start from March 2021. However, the tournament was postponed and rescheduled to be held from 21 January to 18 February 2022. A franchise from

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was announced as taking part since Barisal Bulls played in 2016–17 Bangladesh Premier League. Comilla Victorians returned after the hiatus of one season. On 12 December 2021, all six teams were announced, with the exclusion of Rangpur Rangers and the defending champion Rajshahi Royals. In the final match, Comilla Victorians defeated Fortune Barishal by 1 run to win their third BPL title. Comilla Victorians' bowling Alrounder

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won Player of the match for his all-round performances and Fortune Barishal captain

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won Player of the Tournament award for his all-round performances. Will Jacks was the leading run scorer in the tournament with 414 runs while Mustafizur Rahman was the leading wicket-taker with 19 wickets.

Changes of rules

After confirming all franchises, BCB changed the rule of playing condition as: * Each team is allowed to play a maximum of three overseas players in a match. * Each franchise is allowed to sign one local players from any category as direct signing prior to the players' draft, and a maximum of 3 foreign players can be recruited as direct signing. * Each franchise is allowed to sign a minimum of 10 and a maximum of 14 local players while a minimum of 3 and a maximum of 8 can be signed, in the case of foreign players.

Draft and squads

The players' draft was held on 27 December 2021.

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did not provide a no-objection certificate to some of its players due to FTP commitments.

Venues

Teams and standings

Points Table

* advances to the Qualifier 1 * advances to the Eliminator

League progression

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League stage

Phase 1 (Dhaka)

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Phase 2 (Chittagong)

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Phase 3 (Dhaka)

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Phase 4 (Sylhet)

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Phase 5 (Dhaka)

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Playoffs

Eliminator

Qualifiers

;Qualifier 1 ;Qualifier 2

Final

Statistics

*Source
Cricinfo.com
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References

External links

Series home at ESPNCricinfo
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Bangladesh Premier League, 2021-22