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- Updated: August 30, 2016
Prime Bank Cricket Club have pulled their franchise out of Bangladesh Cricket League’s first-class tournament for the 2016-17 season, their general secretary Tanjil Chowdhury has said. He stated that the decision came in “protest” of unavailability of top players from their region, poor facilities and the tournament’s lack of context in the domestic scene, and they had informed the BCB about it.
“Prime Bank Cricket Club has decided to pull out of the upcoming edition of Bangladesh Cricket League,” Tanjil wrote in a Facebook post. “This may have surprised and upset our fans, wellwishers and cricket lovers. We would like to clarify that this decision was reached due to a culmination of few factors and issues, which we feel obliged to notify our stakeholders.
“PBCC feels that the spirit of alleviating domestic cricket standard especially the longer format is not aligned with the current editions of BCL which we have formally communicated to the BCB. We are deeply saddened by the …
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