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What about Premier League?

Mohammad Isam
The straw-coloured, barren outfield at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in Mirpur symbolises a change in season for cricket in the country. With the monsoon now just weeks away, the offseason work in the country's most visible sporting venue means that it is time to wrap up the 2011-12 season.
The groundstaff, led by curator Gamini de Silva, are working on planting new grass seeds, of the Bermuda kind, on the Mirpur outfield. Bangladesh Cricket Board's (BCB) grounds committee has decided to undertake the overhauling of the playing area since there is no scheduled cricket at the venue till October this year when the new season begins. The sterile look in Mirpur is because
the groundstaff have burned the grass and are now about to plant the new seeds from May 25.
They have undertaken similar projects at the Fatullah Cricket Stadium and Zohur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium in Chittagong to renovate the drainage system.
In the meantime, the Tigers will begin a fitness camp from May 20 within the Mirpur premises as it is now resourceful enough to hold a few camps in the adjacent facilities.
The closing up of the Mirpur ground and the beginning of the camp also mean that no chance of a resumption of the Dhaka Premier League is now almost a foregone conclusion.
None of the sides involved will budge, despite encouraging words whenever the media enquire.
Now the BCB president AHM Mustafa Kamal will sit with the six
Super League clubs -- Abahani, Mohammedan, Victoria Sporting Club, Sheikh Jamal Dhanmondi Club, Old DOHS Club and GaziTank -- on May 15 to discuss the stalemate.
The president, if one can remember, was requested to intervene by the Cricket Committee of Dhaka Metropolis (CCDM) when they had first stopped the proceedings on the evening of March 28, the day Abahani refused to continue their match against Victoria Sporting Club in Mirpur.
When the CCDM put it at the BCB chief's behest, an emergency meeting decided that a high-powered four-member committee would bring about a solution. But senior vice-president MahbubulAnam, Gazi Ashraf Hossain, Sirajuddin Mohammad Alamgir and Dewan Shafiul Arefin failed to And a solution. Now the clearance papers of Mohammad Yousuf are with the government's investigative agencies and while the clubs are trying to work out a truce, it was learned that an influential Victoria official is ready for a rematch against Abahani.
But during this impasse, the other three clubs have suffered. They had to prolong their camps which meant costs went up as every resumption date got postponed for one reason or the other. Old DOHS apparently held their last training session couple of weeks ago when the main topic of interest was the photo-shoot.
Suffice to say, everyone has lost interest after they gave up hope.