Personnel | |
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Captain | Nurul Hasan |
Team information | |
Founded | 1999 |
Home ground | Sheikh Abu Naser Stadium |
Capacity | 15,600 |
History | |
NCL wins | 7 |
One Day Cricket League wins | 1 |
The Khulna Division cricket team is a first-class team representing the Khulna Division in south-west Bangladesh, one of the country's eight administrative regions. The team competes in the National Cricket League and was a participant in the now-defunct National Cricket League One-Day. In the short-lived National Cricket League Twenty20 competition, played in the 2009–10 season only, Khulna adopted the name Kings of Khulna and played in black and yellow. The equivalent team in the Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) is the Khulna Tigers.
Khulna's main home ground is the Sheikh Abu Naser Stadium in Khulna city, which has a capacity of 15,000.
Khulna have won the NCL seven times, including the three consecutive seasons 2015–16, 2016–17, and 2017–18, and they won the 2002–03 National Cricket League One-Day.
Season | NCL | One-Day | NCL T20 |
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1999–2000 | 4th | ||
2000–01 | 4th | ||
2001–02 | 5th | 5th | |
2002–03 | 1st | 1st | |
2003–04 | 3rd | 3rd | |
2004–05 | 3rd | 3rd | |
2005–06 | 6th | 6th | |
2006–07 | 6th | 6th | |
2007–08 | 1st | 3rd | |
2008–09 | 3rd | 4th | |
2009–10 | 4th | not held | Runners Up |
2010–11 | 5th | 4th | |
2011–12 | 2nd | ||
2012–13 | 1st | ||
2013–14 | 4th | ||
2014–15 | 2nd | ||
2015–16 | 1st | ||
2016–17 | 1st | ||
2017–18 | 1st | ||
2018–19 | 3rd | ||
2019–20 | 1st |
Name | Nat | Batting style | Bowling style | Notes | ||
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Batsman | ||||||
Anamul Haque | Right-handed bat | Right arm medium | ||||
Imrul Kayes | Left-handed bat | — | ||||
Soumya Sarkar | Left-hand bat | Right-arm medium | ||||
Amit Majumder | Left-hand bat | Left-arm leg break | ||||
Mohammad Mithun | Right-hand bat | Batsman | ||||
Wicketkeeper | ||||||
Nurul Hasan | Right-hand bat | Batsman | ||||
All-Rounders | ||||||
Ziaur Rahman | Right-hand bat | Right-arm fast medium | ||||
Mehedi Hasan | Right-hand bat | Right-arm off break | ||||
Bowlers | ||||||
Rubel Hossain | Right-handed bat | Right-arm medium fast | ||||
Al-Amin Hossain | Right-hand bat | Right-arm medium-fast | ||||
Robiul Islam | Right-hand bat | Right-arm off break | ||||
Tipu Sultan | Left-hand bat | Slow left-arm orthodox | ||||
Mustafizur Rahman | Left-hand bat | Left-arm medium-fast | ||||
Nahidul Islam | — | — | ||||
Imran Uzzaman | — | — | ||||
Hasanuzzaman | — | — |
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