Geo Super to air BPL

Pakistan’s first sports channel Geo Super will be airing Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) T20 event live from Friday. Those taking part in the league include Imran Nazir, Mohammad Sami, Sohail Tanvir, Kamran Akmal, Faisal Iqbal, Yasir Arafat, Ahmed Shahzad, Rameez Raja jr, Rana Naveed, Fawad Alam, Qaiser Abbas and Nasir Jamshed and other famous international players.
telecasting partners:

Channel 9 : Bangladesh
ESPN, Star Sports , Star Cricket : Indian subcontinent
Geo Super : pakistan
Mtv Sports & Stv : Sri Lanka
Sky Sports 3 : UK
Super Sports 2 & 5: Africa Continent
Fox Sports : Australia, New Zealand & Ocenia Region
Cricone : Caribean Islands
ATN Neo Cricket : America & Canada
Online Live Watching : JagoBD.com

BPL T20 opening ceremony today

The grand opening ceremony of the Bangladesh Premier League T20 tournament will be held in Dhaka on Thursday.

President Zillur Rahman is expected to inaugurate the first edition of the competition at 6:30pm at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in the city’s Mirpur.

In the ceremony, a segment on Mother Language Day will follow performances by Indian and local silver screen stars.

Bipasha Basu, Malaika Arora Khan, Rituparna Sengupta from India and Shamim Ara Nipa, Shibli Mohammad, Shakib Khan and Apu Bishwas from Bangladesh will perform at the ceremony while singers Shaan, Bappi Lahiri also confirmed their participation along with Ayub Bacchu, Kumar Biswajit, Mila and popular band Miles.

The tournament will start Friday with matches between Barisal Burners and Sylhet Royals and Chittagong Kings taking on Duronto Rajshahi.

The competition will start with a double round robin group stage, in which each of the 6 teams will play against every other team twice followed by two semi-finals and the final.

A total of 33 matches will be held during the tournament. Of those, 25 will be held in Dhaka while the eight in Zohur Ahmed Chowdhury stadium in Chittagong.