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GP Zim series sponsors

Sports Reporter
Grameenphone, the leading mobile phone operators of the country, earned the title sponsorship rights for the upcoming one-day home series against Zimbabwe in October-November.
"Despite the financial recession across the world, we have been moving forward and got a sponsor for the upcoming Zimbabwe tour of Bangladesh and sold the rights at a reasonable price to Grameenphone, who once again came forward to sponsor yet another series," said Aziz Al Kaiser, chairman of Bangladesh Cricket
Board's (BCB) commercial and marketing committee, at a press conference at Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in Mirpur yesterday.
The mobile phone company also announced a Tk one lakh cash award for Shakib Al Hasan for his inclusion in the ICC Wo rid Test squad.
Grameenphone and Axiom Technologies bid for the sponsorship rights and the former won the race, offering 3,000 dollars more than the floor price of 60,000. Axiom offered around 60,900 dollars.
However, although Grameenphone had already won the rights, the board later managed to convince the cell phone giants to increase another 15,000 dollars to finally sell the rights at 78,000 dollars.
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Grameenphone, also the sponsors of the national cricket team, will in addition give another 14,000 dollars for the prizes. However, half of the amount will be spent for the man-of-the-match and man-of-the-series awards in the five-match one-day international series.
Axiom earned the rights of the Package One and the Package T\vo which include perimeter boards, mid-wall, western side fence, etc., at an offer of 81179 dollars.
"When we want to sponsor something we do that passionately and this time too there was no shortage of passion and ultimately we won the rights," said Kazi Monirul Kabir, chief of communications of Grameenphone Ltd.
"Grameenphone and BCB have come a long way together and we want to continue it as well as widen and deepen the relation in the days ahead," Kabir said. "Grameenphone is currently involved with the cricket academy and different development activities and the company is eager to expand its involvement with cricket."
Jalal Younus, the chairman of the media committee,
informed the press that they were trying to stage a number of matches of the ODI series under lights as the floodlights had been reset at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium.