Imrul Kayes questions BPL player grading system, raises concerns about fairness

The seasoned cricketer took to Facebook on Friday to teach his issues, declaring inconsistencies in how avid gamers are evaluated.

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11 October, 2024, 04:40 pm

Final modified: 11 October, 2024, 04:43 pm

The 11th version of the Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) is scheduled to launch on 27 December, with the participant draft articulate for 14 October.

Earlier than the draft, the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) has launched the participant impress listing and classes. Six classes were created, with the perfect class offering Tk 6 million, and the bottom at Tk 1 million.

Imrul Kayes, who has been positioned in the ‘C’ class, raised questions in regards to the fairness of the grading system. The seasoned cricketer took to Facebook on Friday to teach his issues, declaring inconsistencies in how avid gamers are evaluated.

Kayes questioned the necessities archaic for assigning participant grades in the BPL, announcing, “After seeing the grading of avid gamers earlier than the BPL draft, I have been wondering what the grading is de facto in conserving with. Is it in conserving with nationwide team efficiency, three hundred and sixty five days-lengthy home efficiency, BPL efficiency, or correct the participant’s name? Some avid gamers who haven’t been around cricket all three hundred and sixty five days are positioned in the ‘B’ grade, whereas these that performed brilliantly in the last BPL are caught in the ‘C’ grade. Is the grading obvious by name and recognition on my own?”

Kayes expressed frustration over the obvious lack of advantage-essentially based entirely grading and shared his indulge in trip of shedding his put aside in the nationwide team. Reflecting on the 2018-19 BPL season, when he performed for Comilla Victorians, Kayes admitted, “I did no longer form well that season, and after the West Indies sequence, I became once dropped from the nationwide team. When I spoke to a BCB legitimate later, he explained that I became once dropped on account of my quite uncomfortable efficiency in the BPL. Since I did no longer form as anticipated, I accredited the choice without hesitation.”

On the replacement hand, Kayes highlighted how even solid BPL performances absorb no longer guaranteed a return to the nationwide team. “In the 2019-20 season, I scored 442 runs in 13 suits for Chattogram Challengers, nonetheless no matter this form of efficiency, I wasn’t known as up to the nationwide team. I wasn’t even incorporated in any nationwide team camp. So, if you do no longer form in the BPL, which probabilities are you’ll presumably presumably furthermore presumably be out, nonetheless even in case you form, or no longer it is no longer belief to be. Will the no longer easy situations in our cricket by no reach cease?” he lamented.

Although he did no longer name particular avid gamers, Kayes’ feedback reignited questions about BPL’s grading system. As an instance, pacer Ebadot Hossain is in the ‘C’ grade, whereas Mashrafe Bin Mortaza, who has been a long way from cricket, has been positioned in the ‘B’ grade.

Because the BPL draft approaches, Kayes’ issues absorb sparked a well-known wider conversation in regards to the transparency and fairness of the participant grading system, elevating issues that could well presumably furthermore simply need addressing earlier than the occasion begins.