Sylhet Super Stars
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| Captain: | Shahid Afridi |
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| Coach: | Sarwar Imran |
| City: | Sylhet, Bangladesh |
| Colors: |  |
| Owner: | ALIF Group |
| Founded: | 2012 as Sylhet Royals; rebranded 2015 |
| Home ground: |
Sylhet International Stadium (Capacity: 20,000) |
| BPL wins: | 0 |
Sylhet Super Stars (Bengali: সিলেট সুপার স্টার ), often abbreviated as SSS are a franchise cricket team that plays in the Bangladesh Premier League (BPL), representing the country's Sylhet Division. Following the 2015 competition, the Super Stars are one of the BPL's six existing members and participated in the league's 2016 edition. The team is headquartered in the city of Sylhet itself, and so is one of two teams playing in the city, alongside the Sylhet Division cricket team which is active in first-class cricket. The Super Stars play their home matches at the Sylhet International Cricket Stadium in Sylhet.
The team was originally established in 2012 for the inaugural BPL season as the Sylhet Royals (Bengali: সিলেট রয়্যালস). The Royals were one of the teams dissolved in 2013 after the BPL's second edition. The franchise was sold to the current owners ALIF and rebranded as the Super Stars for the 2015 edition, in which the team was coached by Sarwar Imran and captained by Shahid Afridi. As of the 2016 season,the team is suspended due to some issues.
In 2012, The Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) created the cricket tournament Bangladesh Premier League based on the Twenty20 form of the game. For the inaugural tournament held in February of the same year, a list of 6 teams who will be participating in the tournament was finalised. The teams representing 2 different divisions of Bangladesh, including Sylhet, were put up on auction in Radisson Hotels on 19 January. Sylhet Royals was bought by Walton Group for a price of USD 1.06 million (BDT 88,722,000)
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