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Change of guard

Mohammad Isam
While the story of this season's Dhaka Premier Division Cricket League was ridden with chaos, never-ending delays and revenge, the underlying theme has
been of local dominance and a subtle shift in the powerbase.
Eighty matches of the 50-over competition's first phase, relegation play-offs and Super League took five months to complete in between three breaks - - two of which were down to the clubs' power politics while the other was a routine break to accommodate two tournaments. The cricket calendar is often a bone of contention within the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) and the various related parties, but hardly ever has any tournament been dragged along for so long; whether the Premier League was played in June in the past four decades is going to be hard to ascertain.
And in recent memory, no competition has seen so many off-field controversies. The first was the Tamim Iqbal-
Mohammad Ashraful incident and within a few weeks, the Sugo Tarun scratching which resulted in several clubs' revolting mid-season. While it was drama enough for a sporting competition, the mother of all controversies awaited when the Super League had only just begun.
Amid all the chaos that emerged from the Mohammad Yousuf clearance issue, it became clear that club politics was still high on the agenda in Bangladesh cricket.
But Victoria's win over Abahani in their rematch on May 31 showed that they could move on from controversy and still play some decent cricket.The successof Old DOHS, who were backed by corporate financing, was another notable issue in the overall landscape of club cricket. Bangladesh Biman were of course the first corporation to take cricketers under their wing in the early 1980s, but many others like some of the national banks and companies like GaziTankhave come in to back cricketers.
What Prime Bank brought to Old DOHS was a sense of stability not seen in many clubs. It is important for the cricketers to train properly, for instance, but the logistics of the whole process is mightily important. Minding all evidence, the private commercial bank has done a stellar job and if they have entered the market for the long haul, it would not only benefit cricket directly, other banks and corporate houses would want to bring money into cricket without taking much out of it. Where the BPL franchises have faltered in payments and other facilities, Prime Bank has made it work.
GaziTank were runners-up while the new champions, Victoria, were bank-rolled by ex-Mohammedan Sporting Club honcho Lutfar Rahman Badal in a bid to derail his former club's campaign, while the Manzur Kader-backed Sheikh Jamal Dhanmondi Club also fared decently, finishing fourth.
The two traditional big guns, Abahani and Mohammedan, had terrible seasons and much of it was down to erratic management and poor decision-making at many stages. If, for example, Abahani decided to play against Victoria on protest during the March 28 debacle in Mirpur, it could have won them some goodwill and let cricket have more priority. Instead, it was held ransom.
There is a definite correlation between the attitude of sets of team management and the players' on-field performance.
One of them who didn't let anything
bother his cricket was national captain Mushfiqur Rahim, who led Sheikh Jamal Dhanmondi Club.
Essentially, the 23-year-old reaps the rewards of an astounding amount of training, both with the bat and the gloves. He scored 951 runs at an average of 73.15 with four centuries and six fifties. His last three innings were 92 not out, 90 and 93; imagine if he had turned them into tons.
Apart from Mushfiqur, the other local players also dominated proceedings. Three foreigners were allowed to play in a Premier League game this season but only one foreigner (Rifatullah from Pakistan) made it among the top ten batsmen, two (Yasim Murtaza and Peter Trego) were among the top bowlers.
This was the first season when the existence of club cricket was questioned several times due to the amount of trouble it caused, but it remains the most important professional competition for the cricketers.
A change of guard, like it has happened in the middle, could also be afoot off the field.