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What’s in agreements!

Sports Reporter from Chittagong
BPL governing council chairman Gazi Ashraf Hossain has more faith on the spoken word than
pen on paper when it comes to crucial agreements.
"We are yet to sign contracts with the franchises. But we do not see a problem in that because we have a good understanding and there are no problems between the concerned parties in principle," Ashraf told reporters yesterday, a day after news leaked that none of the six franchises taking part in the tournament have signed a formal tripartite agreement that also involves the BPL governing council and Game
On Sports Management.
It was a naive statement from Gazi Ashraf, who is sitting on the hot seat of a tournament where millions of dollars are expected to change hands. With the agreement signing, which was supposed to have been completed before the start of the tournament, being stalled other issues like proper documentation of players' contracts with franchises, mode of payment of the foreign players and BCB's commitment to franchises regarding profit-sharing, have all been left unclear two weeks into the tournament.
To Gazi Ashraf, it seemed, these are unimportant issues.
"There are some trivial issues which will hopefully be resolved in the course of time. Before the tournament started
we did not realise that there would arise so many legal issues; we are learning as we go along.
"I would like to ask everyone to be patient. We are here for the long haul, and none ofus will vanish everyone involved in this venture has an identity. We will resolve a lot of issues within the next two, three days," added Gazi Ashraf.
There have been doubts, since the beginning of the BPL, about the governing council properly observing all the legal formalities related to undertaking such a massive financial venture. And now it appears the BPL is in a mess.
"Our real focus was to get the tournament underway and the cricket started on the field, and we have been hundred per cent successful in that. The legal or documentary issues are not a source of concern because we are confident that it will be resolved.
"There was another target that this venture would be financially profitable, and we are confident that that will be the case," said Gazi Ashraf.
However, despite the BPL's commercial objectives, the players haven't seen much of the big bucks coming their way even though most of the tourna-
ment has already been paid. In fact, the cut-off time to pay 75 per cent of local players' payment was today but upon several enquiries within many of the franchises, none of the cricketers picked up that big a cheque.
It was learned from different sources that Sylhet Royals have paid 20 per cent of the players' pay so far while Chittagong have only given them daily allowances. Barisal have paid some of the local players 15-20 per cent while their icon cricketer, Shahriar Nafees,
hasn't received any payment so far.
Dhaka Gladiators have paid 25 per cent of all local player payments while also paying up the foreign players. It is a known fact that marquee cricketers often get paid first, through agents, before joining TWenty20 leagues and it is most likely to be the case with BPLaswell.
Transparency must be the BPL's top priority at the moment, but it seems they are less than bothered about paperwork.