No NCL one-dayers this year - Lipu

[Tigers_eye]

The one-day leg of the National Cricket League (NCL) will not see the light of day at least for this domestic season. The cancellation means that the less privileged cricketers of the country, those who do not play in the national team, A team or the GP-BCB National Cricket Academy will get even fewer matches under their belt.

These players are the large contingent of professionals who completely rely on tournaments like the Premier League, First Division and the two NCL competitions for their survival and future prospects.
Although the BCB tournament committee chairman Gazi Ashraf Hossain agreed that it would be a loss to the rest of the cricketers, he also felt it is still important to provide better quality cricket to the best talents in the country.

"It is partially correct [that they would get less matches] but we want the cream of the crop to get the best exposure," said Ashraf while referring to the tours of South Africa A and Academy side and the West Indies A side starting this month.

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"BCB could have organised the one-day competition as two teams were knocked out early in the NCL first-class tournament and the final began on March 7. The one-dayers could have been held right after the final or when the teams got knocked out," said a cricketer who wished to stay anonymous.

"Actually the cricketers don't get many matches if they are not part of the national side, who get a salary and play all year round. It would be a loss to us since it is still a question of playing matches since some of us can't even get into the PCL or NCL T20 now.

"Look at how Sanwar (Hossain) and (Habibul) Bashar are playing in Sharjah although they have no prospect for national selection," he said.

It is of common knowledge that the top cricketers and the one's who are best connected, get to play most of the tournaments on offer. And due to this practice, the lesser known ones get lost and talent remains untapped.
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Ashraf said yesterday that it would be hard to fit in the one-dayers because of the two tours, a lack of grounds and the general standard of cricket.

"It looks like we have to pause the tournament. The A team and Academy have two series this month so they will be busy there. The tours will end late in May," said the former Bangladesh captain.

"Venues in Fatullah, Mirpur, Khulna and Chittagong will also be under re-development work so the unavailability of these stadiums are a factor. Also, we are looking at the playing standard that they would be involved in during the West Indies and South Africa series," he added.

However Khaled Mashud, another former national captain, said if two venues close to each other were considered, the tournament could have been easily held.

"The one-dayers could have been easily accommodated if the six teams played in Bogra and Rajshahi. The travelling would have been less and more players, apart from the ones selected for the national setup, could have played," said Mashud. "I am of the opinion that the bigger the cricket season, the better it would be for everyone. More cricket matches would mean more talented cricketers coming out," the Rajshahi captain said.

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BCB is toying with CWAB.

[Eshen]

With so many T20 leagues (which is good as we have the T20I WC coming up), there is no place for an one-day league. Mind you, A-team matches are starting soon too.

Players' loss of income should be well compensated by NCL T20.

May be Pilot is sour because no PCL team hired him.

[bangla-red]

Great April Fool! Oh...

[WarWolf]

That's a very very bad decision indeed. This BCB is messing up everything.

We have world cup one day tournament within 1 year and we decided to drop the one day tournament!!! What a bunch of morons!!!

[Farhad]

Originally Posted by WarWolf
That's a very very bad decision indeed. This BCB is messing up everything.

We have world cup one day tournament within 1 year and we decided to drop the one day tournament!!! What a bunch of morons!!!

I dont think this is going to affect the world cup in any way really. Everybody in the squad will be playing for either the national, A, or Academy side during that time. The "cream of the crop" (as Ashraf says) will still get their fill of game experience.

[Equinox]

Originally Posted by Eshen
With so many T20 leagues (which is good as we have the T20I WC coming up), there is no place for an one-day league. Mind you, A-team matches are starting soon too.

Players' loss of income should be well compensated by NCL T20.

May be Pilot is sour because no PCL team hired him.

What about the players who can't get into NCL T20 teams?

[Eshen]

Originally Posted by Equinox
What about the players who can't get into NCL T20 teams?

What about them?

Sooner or later oldies like Pilot will have to find alternative ways to compensate for their loss of income from playing cricket. Players welfare is part of BCB's responsibilities, but that's not their primary role. Last thing BCB should do is to arrange unnecessary and overbearing tournaments for benefit of a group.

[_Rafi_]

Eshen vai, what about the youngies like Mahmudul Hasan, Anamul, Asif Rahman, Soumya Sarkar and others? I think a lot of players from them are missing in PCL and will be missed in NCL to accomodate foreign and natl players. Oneday cricket is great medium for learning/using 2nd and 3rd gears for a batsman. We dont want anymore Ash and Aftab who have immense talent but cant use all 4 gears.

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[auntu]

Originally Posted by WarWolf
That's a very very bad decision indeed. This BCB is messing up everything.

We have world cup one day tournament within 1 year and we decided to drop the one day tournament!!! What a bunch of morons!!!

That's another example that these so called cricket admins have no capacity to make plans about BD cricket. They are just killing the game.

Just like the Bangla phrase: মাথা ঢাকলে পা খালি, পা ঢাকলে মাথা খালি।

[beshideshi]

This is atrocious to say the least. No List A tournament in a season? Good thing about scraping the cream, but what about others who have the potentials of becoming the cream? Unless cricket can be seen as a profession for around 200 people in the country, many many talented cricketers will be lost from the system.
Why not organize the NCL OD tournament with the 2nd/3rd tier players and allow the young ones an opportunity to show their worth.
This Gazi Ashraf Lipu somehow manages to disappoint me everytime[despite having surprisingly low expectations from him]

[Tigers_eye]

If the cream don't get competition then the cream will remain as local cream only.

[Tormuz]

I think BCB is thinking about the weather, becasue "Boishak" mas is coming so no wonder why they wanted to avoid NCL OD rather than watching No Results in 80% of the game(rest 20% will be D/L results).

[Tigers_eye]

Originally Posted by Tormuz
I think BCB is thinking about the weather, becasue "Boishak" mas is coming so no wonder why they wanted to avoid NCL OD rather than watching No Results in 80% of the game(rest 20% will be D/L results).

That is a good excuse but no where in the whole interview Lipu says that.

[Tormuz]

Originally Posted by Tigers_eye
That is a good excuse but no where in the whole interview Lipu says that.

Because Lipu isn't clever enough like me


LOL

[Farhad]

The last edition of the NCL one day tournament was on January 2009, so I pretty much saw this coming. At least they had their Premier league...

[mishu]

players like pilot, bashar, rofique, so on need to give up playing and learn coaching, umpiring, commenting, so they can be useful elsewhere.

and its good decision to cancel NCL/ODI as the focus is now on 20/20, and as for one day goes the A tour and academy tour will cover that.

I think BCB at the moment are taking right decisions...

[Eshen]

Originally Posted by _Rafi_
Eshen vai, what about the youngies like Mahmudul Hasan, Anamul, Asif Rahman, Soumya Sarkar and others? I think a lot of players from them are missing in PCL and will be missed in NCL to accomodate foreign and natl players.

Yes, BCB will have to find a way to hone skills of those young players during the summer. However, I still think a six team event, when top 45 players will be gone on national, A-team, and academy duties, will be of poor quality, and waste of time and money. A better option will be to arrange a three team event for U/23 players from where 10-15 players will be selected for the academy (besides the one already playing for the academy), like BCB done in the past.

[shujan]

Originally Posted by Eshen
Yes, BCB will have to find a way to hone skills of those young players during the summer. However, I still think a six team event, when top 45 players will be gone on national, A-team, and academy duties, will be of poor quality, and waste of time and money. A better option will be to arrange a three team event for U/23 players from where 10-15 players will be selected for the academy (besides the one already playing for the academy), like BCB done in the past.

Giving new upcoming cricketer salary for their hard work is not waste of money. It takes lots of sacrifice to learn cricket in higher level. It is hard time for lots of these young players and their family. Stop giving them chances is telling them do not bother trying learning cricket. It is not gonna help you to make a living.
SAD indeed.

[Sohel]

No List A competition from a test playing nation, B-R-A-V-O BCB! Perfect example of their attention to detail and ability to think ahead.

DPL is not List A, BTW.

[cricman]

Originally Posted by Sohel NR
DPL is not List A, BTW.

The Standard is higher tho than NCL list A

[Ajfar]

Originally Posted by cricman
The Standard is higher tho than NCL list A

definitely. even siddon said this during the dilmah tea party interview in NZ.

[auntu]

Originally Posted by bangladesh_sy
definitely. even siddon said this during the dilmah tea party interview in NZ.

Yes, I heard that too.

[Eshen]

Originally Posted by cricman
The Standard is higher tho than NCL list A

Yep. Other than the official status, NCL one-day league does not really hold much value.

[Sohel]

DPL standard is similarly agricultural, IMHO, but the pay is more. Hence more enthusiasm from the better paid players. Both are littered with two-loppas-per over bowling, customary batting brainfarts and shoddy fielding errors on shoddier pitches.

I think we ought to follow ICC norms do whatever necessary to improve the NCL, all 3 formats. Improve pitches, improve coachng, improve scouting, improve pay, improve promotion and overall prestige, and see what happens.

Official staus HAS value.

[Tigers_eye]

Originally Posted by Sohel NR
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I think we ought to follow ICC norms do whatever necessary to improve the NCL, all 3 formats. Improve pitches, improve coachng, improve scouting, improve pay, improve promotion and overall prestige, and see what happens...

In ten years, BCB still don't get that. 2+ crore per seat. Go figure!!