Bangladesh Premier League 2016 schedule: Revised fixtures

The rain gods tried their best to stop the Bangladesh Premier League 2016 (BPL 2016), scheduled to start last Friday. While the toss was done for the first game of the tournament between Comilla Victorians and Rajshahi Kings, not a single bowl was bowled. This continued for the next four games as well.

The depression over the Bay of Bengal bringing non-seasonal rainfall all over Bangladesh has really come as a worry for the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB). To postpone the matches or cancel the tournament as a whole remained the big question. Fortunately, the BPL Governing Council stuck to the former proposal and decided to reschedule the fixtures. It starts again on Tuesday.

According to BPL member secretary Ismail Haider Mallick, the four matches, scheduled to take place on November 5 and 6, will take place on the rest days scheduled for the tournament in the original fixtures. However, this will happen only if the franchises unanimously agree to play those matches or be content on sharing a point each, as per the rules.

Mallick has told ESPN Cricinfo that while Rangpur Riders and Khulna Titans have agreed on playing their rematch, Comilla Victorians and Rajshahi Kings are undecided whether to play their revised fixture.

"According to the bylaws, we can make the November 4 matches into rematches only if the franchises agree to it. Rangpur and Khulna have agreed for the rematch but we don't have a decision from Comilla and Rajshahi, who were the teams in the tournament's first match," said Mallick.

"We will try to reassign the five or six matches on November 10 and 14 and, if need be, we will hold three matches in a day. November 20 is also an option for the rescheduled matches," he added.

As for now, except for that fixture, the other three fixtures are rescheduled in the latest list of matches revealed by the Bangladesh Premier League organising committee.

Unannounced fixture date: Comilla Victorians v Rajshahi Kings