Bangladesh Cricket League
| Countries |
 Bangladesh
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|---|---|
| Administrator | Bangladesh Cricket Board |
| Format | First-class cricket |
| First tournament | 2012-13 |
| Tournament format | Round-robin |
| Number of teams | 4 |
| Current champion | North Zone |
| Most successful |
Central Zone South Zone (2 titles each) |
 2016–17 Bangladesh Cricket League
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The Bangladesh Cricket League is an annual first-class cricket tournament that began in Bangladesh in the 2012-13 season.
The Bangladesh Cricket League (BCL) was inaugurated in the 2012-13 season as a four-team first-class tournament comprising the best-performing players from the eight-team National Cricket League (NCL). The aim was to raise the level of the nation's top first-class competition and so prepare players better for Test cricket.
The BCL consists of four zonal teams, each made up of players from teams representing two adjacent regions in the NCL. The teams are as follows:
Each team is owned and officially named as a franchise: Walton Central Zone, Prime Bank South Zone, Islami Bank East Zone, and BCB North Zone. The owners have remained unchanged since the beginning. The Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) has been unable to find a buyer for the North Zone franchise.
The matches are played on a limited number of nominally neutral grounds, without home and away matches.
In the final, Central Zone beat North Zone by 31 runs. Sanjamul Islam (North Zone) took 8 for 73 in the second innings of the final, which remained the best bowling figures in the tournament until the 2016-17 season.
Matches took place between December 2012 and February 2013, at Mirpur (in Central Zone) and Bogra (in North Zone). The highest scorer was Marshall Ayub (Central Zone) (465 runs, average 77.50) and the leading wicket-takers were Sohag Gazi (South Zone) (19 wickets, average 24.47) and Mosharraf Hossain (Central Zone) (19 wickets, average 25.31). Marshall Ayub was named player of the tournament; he scored 289 against East Zone, which remains the highest score in the tournament.
In the final South Zone beat North Zone by 213 runs.
Matches took place in January and May 2014, the round-robin matches at Bangladesh Krira Shikkha Protisthan cricket grounds 2, 3 and 4 in Savar, and the final at Mirpur (all in Central Zone). The highest scorer was Imrul Kayes (South Zone) (511 runs, average 73.00) and the leading wicket-taker was Taijul Islam (North Zone) (37 wickets, average 17.24). Taijul Islam was named player of the tournament.
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