2025 Bangladesh Premier League players' draft

Cricket player selection

2025 Bangladesh Premier League players draft
General information
Sport	Cricket
Date(s)	14 October 2024
Time	11:00 am BST
Location	Radisson Blu Water Garden Dhaka
Overview
League	Bangladesh Premier League
Team	7
Expansion team	1
Expansion season	2024
← 2024 2026 →

The players' draft for the 2025 Bangladesh Premier League took place on 14 October 2024 at the Radisson Blu Water Garden Dhaka.

Players draft rules

Each team should have at least 12 players, 10 being local players and 2 being foreign players.
Each team can sign only one local player through direct signing and at least nine local players are to be picked from the draft
There is no maximum limit to signing foreign players both directly and through the draft.

Salary cap

Local players

216 local players were listed into seven categories with the following salary cap:-

Category A – ৳80 lakh (US$67,000)
Category B – ৳50 lakh (US$42,000)
Category C – ৳30 lakh (US$25,000)
Category D – ৳20 lakh (US$17,000)
Category E – ৳15 lakh (US$13,000)
Category F – ৳10 lakh (US$8,400)

Foreign players

Category A – US$80,000
Category B – US$60,000
Category C – US$40,000
Category D – US$30,000
Category E – US$20,000

Drafted players

This is the list of drafted players in the players draft.

Fortune Barishal	Khulna Tigers	Dhaka Capitals	Sylhet Strikers	Rangpur Riders	Chittagong Kings	Durbar Rajshahi
Mahmudullah Tanvir Islam Najmul Hossain Ripon Mondol Ebadot Hossain Nayeem Hasan Rishad Hossain Taijul Islam Shohidul Islam Ariful Islam James Fuller Pathum Nissanka Nandre Burger	Hasan Mahmud Mohammad Naim Imrul Kayes Mahidul Islam Ankon Abu Hider Rony Ziaur Rahman Mahfuzur Rahman Rabby Mahmudul Hasan Joy (local) Mohammad Hasnain Lewis Gregory Mohammad Nawaz (foreign)	Litton Das Habibur Rahman Sohan Mukidul Islam Abu Jayed Sabbir Rahman Munim Shahriar Asif Hasan Shahadat Hossain Dipu Musfik Hasan (local) Saim Ayub Amir Hamza Hotak (foreign)	Rony Talukder Mashrafe Bin Mortaza Al-Amin Hossain Arafat Sunny Ruyel Miah Ariful Haque Nihaduzzaman Nahidul Islam (local) Rahkeem Cornwall Samiullah Shinwari Reece Topley (foreign)	Nahid Rana Saif Hassan Soumya Sarkar Rakibul Hasan Rejaur Rahman Raja Irfan Sukkur Kamrul Islam Rabbi Tawfique Khan Tushar (local) Akif Javed Curtis Campher (foreign)	Shamim Hossain Parvez Hossain Emon Khaled Ahmed Aliss Islam Mohammad Mithun Naeem Islam Maruf Mridha Rahatul Ferdous Sheikh Parvez Jibon Marshall Ayub (local) Graham Clarke Tom O'Connell (foreign)	Taskin Ahmed Jishan Alam Yasir Ali Sabbir Hossain Sanjamul Islam SM Meherob Akbar Ali Hasan Murad Shafiul Islam Mohor Sheikh (local) Saad Nasim Lahiru Samarakoon (foreign)

Direct Signing

This is the list of direct signings of every team and Retention Players.

Dhaka Capitals

Direct signings:

Mustafizur Rahman
Tanzid Hasan Tamim

Foreign direct signings:

Thisara Perera
Johnson Charles
Amir Hamza
Shahnawaz Dahani
Stephen Eskinazi

Chittagong Kings

Direct signing:

Shakib Al Hasan
Shoriful Islam

Foreign direct signings:

Moeen Ali
Usman Khan
Haider Ali
Angelo Mathews
Mohammad Wasim Jr
Binura Fernando

Durbar Rajshahi

Anamul Haque Bijoy

Fortune Barishal

Direct signing:

Towhid Hridoy

Foreign direct signings:

Kyle Mayers
Dawid Malan
Mohammad Nabi
Faheem Ashraf
Ali Mohammad
Jahandad Khan

Sylhet Strikers

Direct signing:

Jaker Ali Anik

Foreign direct signings:

Paul Stirling
George Munsey

Khulna Tigers

Direct signing:

Mehidy Hasan

Foreign direct signing:

Oshane Thomas

Rangpur Riders

Direct signing:

Mohammad Saifuddin

Foreign direct signings:

Alex Hales
Khushdil Shah
Allah Ghazanfar
Steven Taylor
Saurabh Netravalkar

Retention Players

Fortune Barishal

Tamim Iqbal
Mushfiqur Rahim

Sylhet Strikers

Tanzim Hasan Sakib
Zakir Hasan

Khulna Tigers

Afif Hossain
Nasum Ahmed

Rangpur Riders

Nurul Hasan Sohan
Mahedi Hasan

Players list

the shortlist of local players has been released.

References

"BPL 2025: How the squads look like after players' draft". bpl. Retrieved 13 October 2024.
"Players draft completed for the 11th edition of BPL". bpl. Retrieved 13 October 2024.
"BPL players' draft: 188 local cricketers into six distinct classes". bpl. Retrieved 13 October 2024.
"Shakib joins Chittagong Kings for upcoming edition of BPL". bpl. Retrieved 13 October 2024.
"A look at all seven teams after BPL players' draft". bpl. Retrieved 13 October 2024.

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