2025 Bangladesh Premier League players' draft

2025 Bangladesh Premier League players draft
General information
Sport	Cricket
Date	14 October 2024
Time	11:00 am BST
Location	Radisson Blu Water Garden Dhaka
Overview
League	Bangladesh Premier League
Team	7
Expansion team	1
Expansion season	2025
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The players' draft for the 2025 Bangladesh Premier League took place on 14 October 2024 at the Radisson Blu Water Garden Dhaka. ^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5]}

Salary cap

Local players

216 local players were listed into seven categories with the following salary cap:-

• Category A – ৳80 lakh (US$66,000)
• Category B – ৳50 lakh (US$41,000)
• Category C – ৳30 lakh (US$25,000)
• Category D – ৳20 lakh (US$16,000)
• Category E – ৳15 lakh (US$12,000)
• Category F – ৳10 lakh (US$8,200)

Foreign players

• Category A – US$80,000
• Category B – US$60,000
• Category C – US$40,000
• Category D – US$30,000
• Category E – US$20,000

Drafted players

This is the list of players that were drafted.

Fortune Barishal	Khulna Tigers	Dhaka Capitals	Sylhet Strikers	Rangpur Riders	Chittagong Kings	Durbar Rajshahi
Mahmudullah Tanvir Islam Najmul Hossain Ripon Mondol Ebadot Hossain Nayeem Hasan Rishad Hossain Taijul Islam Shohidul Islam Ariful Islam James Fuller Pathum Nissanka Nandre Burger	Hasan Mahmud Mohammad Naim Imrul Kayes Mahidul Islam Ankon Abu Hider Rony Ziaur Rahman Mahfuzur Rahman Rabby Mahmudul Hasan Joy (local) Mohammad Hasnain Lewis Gregory Mohammad Nawaz (foreign)	Litton Das Habibur Rahman Sohan Mukidul Islam Abu Jayed Sabbir Rahman Munim Shahriar Asif Hasan Shahadat Hossain Dipu Musfik Hasan (local) Saim Ayub Amir Hamza Hotak (foreign)	Rony Talukder Mashrafe Bin Mortaza Al-Amin Hossain Arafat Sunny Ruyel Miah Ariful Haque Nihaduzzaman Nahidul Islam (local) Rahkeem Cornwall Samiullah Shinwari Reece Topley (foreign)	Nahid Rana Saif Hassan Soumya Sarkar Rakibul Hasan Rejaur Rahman Raja Irfan Sukkur Kamrul Islam Rabbi Tawfique Khan Tushar (local) Akif Javed Curtis Campher (foreign)	Shamim Hossain Parvez Hossain Emon Khaled Ahmed Aliss Islam Mohammad Mithun Naeem Islam Maruf Mridha Rahatul Ferdous Sheikh Parvez Jibon Marshall Ayub (local) Graham Clarke Tom O'Connell (foreign)	Taskin Ahmed Jishan Alam Yasir Ali Sabbir Hossain Sanjamul Islam SM Meherob Akbar Ali Hasan Murad Shafiul Islam Mohor Sheikh (local) Saad Nasim Lahiru Samarakoon (foreign)

Direct signings

These are the direct signings of every team.

Dhaka Capitals

Direct signings:

• Mustafizur Rahman
• Tanzid Hasan Tamim

Foreign direct signings:

• Thisara Perera
• Johnson Charles
• Amir Hamza
• Shahnawaz Dahani
• Stephen Eskinazi

Chittagong Kings

Direct signings:

• Shakib Al Hasan
• Shoriful Islam

Foreign direct signings:

• Moeen Ali
• Usman Khan
• Haider Ali
• Angelo Mathews
• Mohammad Wasim Jr
• Binura Fernando

Durbar Rajshahi

• Anamul Haque Bijoy

Fortune Barishal

Direct signings:

• Towhid Hridoy

Foreign direct signings:

• Kyle Mayers
• Dawid Malan
• Mohammad Nabi
• Faheem Ashraf
• Ali Mohammad
• Jahandad Khan

Sylhet Strikers

Direct signings:

• Jaker Ali Anik

Foreign direct signings:

• Paul Stirling
• George Munsey

Khulna Tigers

Direct signings:

• Mehidy Hasan

Foreign direct signing:

• Oshane Thomas

Rangpur Riders

Direct signing:

• Mohammad Saifuddin

Foreign direct signings:

• Alex Hales
• Khushdil Shah
• Allah Ghazanfar
• Steven Taylor
• Saurabh Netravalkar

Retained players

This is the list of players that were retained by team.

Fortune Barishal

• Tamim Iqbal Khan
• Mahmudullah Riyad

Sylhet Strikers

• Tanzim Hasan Sakib
• Zakir Hasan

Khulna Tigers

• Afif Hossain
• Nasum Ahmed

Rangpur Riders

• Nurul Hasan Sohan
• Mahedi Hasan

See also

• Chittagong Kings in 2025 BPL
• Dhaka Capitals in 2025 BPL
• Durbar Rajshahi in 2025 BPL
• Fortune Barishal in 2025 BPL
• Khulna Tigers in 2025 BPL
• Rangpur Riders in 2025 BPL
• Sylhet Strikers in 2025 BPL

References

1. "BPL 2025: How the squads look like after players' draft". BPL. Retrieved 13 October 2024.
2. "Players draft completed for the 11th edition of BPL". BPL. Retrieved 13 October 2024.
3. "BPL players' draft: 188 local cricketers into six distinct classes". BPL. Retrieved 13 October 2024.
4. "Shakib joins Chittagong Kings for upcoming edition of BPL". BPL. Retrieved 13 October 2024.
5. "A look at all seven teams after BPL players' draft". BPL. Retrieved 13 October 2024.