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Premier Drv Starts Today Abahani-Wari opener

Sports Reporter
The Green Delta Insurance Premier Division Hockey League gets underway today at the Maulana Bhasani National Stadium.
Club Cup champions Abahani take on Wari Club in the inaugural and the day's only match at 4:00pm.
On the second day another giants Usha Krira Chakra, who became joint champions in the last season, will launch their campaign against Bangladesh Sporting Club at 2:30pm while in the other match of the day runners-up Dhaka Mariner Young's Club will play against Sadharan Bima at 4:00pm.
Another traditional giants Mohammedan will kick off their campaign on May 1, taking on Azad Sporting Club.
Ten teams — Abahani, Usha, Dhaka Mariner, Mohammedan. Sonali Bank, Ajax, Azad, Sadharan Bima. Bangladesh SC and Wari Club — will compete in the first round and after that top five will play the Super League.
Most of the participating clubs are demanding foreign umpires to conduct the matches as there were
ugly scenes in an ill-tempered game due to poor umpiring between country's two traditional rivals -- Abahani and Mohammedan — in the Club Cup semifinal.
"We had a meeting with the eight club representatives Sunday where they, demanded foreign umpires and we are trying to bring some foreign umpires. Two Indian umpires will arrive in Dhaka in the first week of May," Ehtesham Sultan, general secretary of the league committee, told at a press conference yesterday.
"We have a lack of professional umpires and the problem will not be solved unless the number of umpires increases, ’ he added.
Bangladesh Hockey Federation general secretary Sajed A Adel said that they were going to set a code of conduct to keep the players away from misbehaviour during matches.
Adel informed that there would be no relegation this season as the governing body of the federation had earlier decided not to demote any team considering the financial problems.
The league committee has decided that each club will be allowed to register three foreign players and field all three in a match.
Green Delta Insurance Company general manager Nazim Tazik Chowdhury was also present during the briefing.
The sponsoring company has given the federation Tk. 20 lakh to conduct the Premier, the First and Second Division Leagues for three seasons, and this will be the second season as the 2007 season saw no league held.