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Revamped NCL all set

Sports Reporter
The National Cricket League (NCL), country's lone first-class competition, will start from January 1 under a new format.
Rajshahi will face Sylhct at the FatuUah Cricket Stadium while Khulna will meet Dhaka at the Shaheed Kamruzzaman Stadium in Rajshahi. Barisal take on Chittagong at the Shaheed Chandu Stadium in Bogra in the opening day's four-day fixtures.
Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) made wholesale changes with a target to make the competition more competitive within a reasonable expenditure as the number of matches has been reduced.
The most significant changes is that the NCL has shifted from league format to a cup format with top two finishers in terms of accumulated points playing in a final match, which will be a five-day affair, to determine the championship. There
will also be no home and away basis competition.
In the first phase, six divisional teams will play each other on a single league basis with each team getting only five four-day matches and all the matches will be held at neutral venues and then top four teams will qualify for the second phase.
Four top divisional teams will play each other in the second phase on a single league basis with each team getting three four-day matches and points from the first phase will be carried over to the second phase.
"We have brought the changes with an eye on making the competition more competitive and we want to see how its goes. We have had certain issues in our mind before bringing the changes to the format. What we felt is that in this format there will be the competitiveness amongst the players as well as the teams to go into the next round and play in the final," explained BCB's tournament committee chairman Gazi Ashraf Hossain yesterday.
"From the last few years we saw that fatigue set in towards the end of the tour-
nament among the players because of the long duration and some matches were played without any purpose. But we believe that tilings will be different under this new format," he added.
"And what we felt that our players didn't get enough rest which is not good for a player's fitness. We had to look at our international calendar also because our "A" team and academy team have some tours from August and more or less same players are playing for the teams. And they have got the opportunity to play the lunger-version matches. And what we believe is that it could be a perfect stage for the players to perform well in the league to enter into the 'A' team and Academy team," said Ashraf.
The former national skipper however said that they had to change the home and away basis league because of a shortage of the venues as there are a number of international schedules for the international venues in the coming months.
Ashraf also said that they had to interfere slightly in team selection because of the fine tuning of the team and as well made sure a check and balance in the team.
"There was other reasons for reducing number of the matches as this season the National Cricket League T20 competition is included besides one-day competition. If we want to play in the Champions League in future then there is no other choice rather than arrange this kind of T20 competition," said Ashraf.
The BCB had initially pencilled the NCL to start on December 20but thejan 1 kickoff rep resents a 12-day delay.
SQUADS
DHAKA: Javed Omar, Uttam Sarker. Rony Talukdar, Marshal Ayub, Nadif Chowdhury, Shamsur Rahman, Shuvagoto Hom . Nazmul Hossain Milon, Nadimuddin, Anwar Hossain, Mohammed Sharif, Emon Ahmed, Mohammed Azim. Mohammed Rafique, Roqybul Hasan, Arafat Sunny, Mosharraf Hossain, Talha Jubair, Enamul Haque Bijoy, Mominul Hoque, Mehrab Hossain, Nur Hossain, Mahbubul Alam, Shahadat
Hossain, Mohammed Ashraful, Mahmudullah Riyad: Officials: Ali Hossain (manager), Sarwar Imran (head coach), Saiful Islam(assistant coach) and Amitav Halder (physio).
CHITTAGONG: Nafis Iqbal, Nazimuddin, Rase, Al-Mamun, Gazi Salahuddin, Rezaul Karim, Faisal Hossain, Mahbubul Karim, Irfan Sukkur, Dhiman Ghosh, Arman Hossain, Golam Kibria, Tareq Aziz, Kamrul Islam, Monjurul Isalm, Miraj Ahmed, Elias Sunny, Mohammad Younus, Raihanuddin Arafat, Mobasser Hossain, Monirul Islam, Mahmudul Hasan, Tamim Iqbal, Aftab Ahmed, Tasamul Hoque Rubel, Rubel Hossain. Officials: Abu Sama Biplob (manager), Nurul Abedin Nobel (head coach), Mohilosh Dewan (assistant coach) and S. M. Zahidu 1 Islam (physio).
BARISAk Taibur Rahman, Asif Ahmed, Nasiruddin Faruque, Shohag Gazi, Imran Ahmed, Hannan Sarker, Arafat Salahuddin, Abul Bashar, Shaheen Hossain, Ashiqu) Islam, Sajidul Islam, Ariful Hoque. Aminul Islam, Dewan
Sabbir, Saju Datta, Monir Hossain, Nazmul Islam, Fazle Rabbi, Abir, Saddam Khan, Rokibul Hasan, Kamrul Islam, Shahriar Nafees. Officials: AKM Shahidul Islam (manager), Zafrul Ehsan (head coach), Tasriqul Islam (assistant coach), FerdousAlam (physio). KHULNA: Nazmus Sadat, Mohammed Aslam, Tariqul Islam, Habibul Bashar, Tbshar Imran, Nizamuddin Ripon, Sahagir Hossain, Ashraful Nobi, Robiul Islam, Ziaur Rahman, Monowar Hossain, Masum Khan, Nazmus Sakib, Murad Khan, Bishanath Halder, KM Shakil, Imamul Hossain, Fariduddin Masud, Reazul Karim. Amit Mojumdar, Nurul Hasan, Imrul Kayes, Shakib Al Hasan, Mashrafe Mortaza, Syed Rasel, Dollar Mahmud, Abdur Razzak, Sumaya Sarkar, Shafiul Alam. Officials: AFM. Molnuddin (manager), Dipu Chowdhury (head coach), Shohei Islam (assistant coach), Enamul Hoque (physio).
RAJSHAHI: Jahurul Islam, Abishek Mitra. Mizanur Rahman, Farhad Hosaain, Anisur Rahman, Farhad Reza,
Zubaier Islam, Khaled Mashud. Hamidul Islam, Shafaq Al Jabir, Saiful Islam, Mohammad Shahajada, Delwar Hossain, Sohrawordi Shuvo, Saqlain Sajib, Sanjamul Islam, Shohag Reza, Maysukur Rahman, Muktar Ali, Nasir Hossain, Zunaed Siddiqui, Alauddin Babu, Shabbir Ahmed, Nayeem Islam. Officials: Raisuddin Ahmed (manager), Mohammed Mohiuddin (head coach), Golam Mortaza (assistant coach), Amanai Ullah(physio). SYL1IET: Mohammed Mithun, Imtiaz Hossain, Human Ahmed, Sharifullah, Rajin Saleh, Kamrul Islam Emon, Rezaul Hoque Nayeem, Ezaz Ahmed, Mehedi Mahbub, Golam Mabud, Taposh Baisha, Shirajullah Khadem, Suvashis Roy, Sumon Shaha, Taposh Ghosh, Nabil Samad, Tanvir Haider, Abu Jahed Rahi, Saikat Ali, Sakher Ahmed, Abul Hasan Raju, Alok Kapali, Enamul Haque, Nazmul Hossain and Mushfiqur Rahim. Officials: Paplu Datta (manager), Abul Karim Juwel (head coach), AKM Mahmudul Emon (assistant coach) and Manirul Hoque (physio).