Rajshahi Royals

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Rajshahi Royals
রাজশাহী রয়্যালস
LeagueBangladesh Premier League
Personnel
OwnerBangladesh Cricket Board (2019–20)
Team information
CityRajshahi, Bangladesh
Founded2012 (as Duronto Rajshahi)
2016 (as Rajshahi Kings)
2019–20 (as Rajshahi Royals)
History
Bangladesh Premier League wins1 (2020)

T20I kit

Rajshahi Royals (

Varendri/Bengali: রাজশাহী রয়্যালস) were a Bangladeshi franchise Twenty20 cricket team. The team was based in Rajshahi in Bangladesh and competed in the Bangladesh Premier League
(BPL), a Twenty20 franchise cricket competition.

On 16 November 2019, Bengal Group was named as the sponsor of the team and it was renamed to Bengal Rajshahi Royals.[1] The team was excluded from 2021–22 Bangladesh Premier League.[2]

History

Darren Sammy was announced the captain of the side.[4]

Season overview

2011/12

See also:
2011-12 Bangladesh Premier League

Duronto Rajshahi was captained by

Barisal Burners
in the semi-final, ending a positive campaign.

2012/13

See also:
2012-13 Bangladesh Premier League

This time, the team was led by Tamim Iqbal who had the likes of Moeen Ali and Sean Ervine accompanying him. This time, Rajshahi just managed to finish in the top 4 during the league stage, winning 5 games out of 12 matches. Their campaign ended as they were disqualified during the playoffs.

2016/17

See also:
2016-17 Bangladesh Premier League

The kings were the other new team alongside

Nurul Hasan. They signed Sri Lankan opener Upul Tharanga (missed whole tournament due to national commitments), English all-rounder Samit Patel and more from the overseas department in the draft. They bought Mominul Haque, Farhad Reza and some more local talents also from the draft. They also signed Kiwi all-rounder James Franklin and Jamaican seamer Kesrick Williams mid-tournament. They chose hard-hitting t20 specialist batting all-rounder Sabbir Rahman
as their icon player.

The kings started off with a 3 run defeat to

Khulna Titans
to qualify for the playoffs.

They won against

Khulna Titans
in the eliminator and the 2nd qualifier game respectively. Unfortunately, the suffered a heavy defeat against
Dhaka Dynamites
in the final.

2017/18

See also:
2017-18 Bangladesh Premier League

They replaced previous icon

Mehedi Hasan. They signed English opener and part-time seamer Luke Wright and West Indian top-middle order batsmen Lendl Simmons to provide stability to the top order and also made a one-season contract with Zimbabwe's Malcolm Waller
to give the lower-middle order a boost. They extended the contract for one more year with Franklin, Sami and Sammy (remade skipper).

In the draft, The Kings got the first pick in the lottery and unsurprisingly selected wiry left-arm seamer

Pakistani leggie Usama Mir
. The surprise picks were U19 all-rounder Qazi Onik, in-form orthodox spinner Nihaduzzaman, pacer Hossain Ali and little known Pakistani all-rounder Raza Ali Dar.

The Kings began their conquest with a lost to Rangpur Riders and could not fully recover from the early defeat. They went on to lose more matches but secured some victories on the way. Overall, they finished 2nd last at 6th.

2018/19

See also:
2018-19 Bangladesh Premier League

They retained

South African Christiaan Jonker
pre-draft

In the draft, Rajshahi snatched in-form batsman Soumya Sarkar as their first pick. From the overseas department, they signed the likes of Isuru Udana and Ryan ten Doeschate. Their head coach Lance Klusener was present in the event.

2019/20

See also:
2019-20 Bangladesh Premier League

The team signed South African Al-rounder JP Duminy as one of their direct signings.[5] But later, BCB decided to run this edition of the BPL themselves without taking any franchises, which meant the new signing could not represent this team on this edition of the tournament.[6]

However, During the player's direct signing period, a Conflict of Interests aroused between BCB and all other franchise. Subsequently, in September 2019, BCB made some changes in rules and regulations for this season and eliminating all franchises, BCB took over the charge of the current BPL and decided to run this current tournament by the board itself and named the tournament as Bangabandhu BPL T20 2019 in order to pay homage to Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on his birth centenary.[7] IPC Group became the team sponsor. They renamed it to ‘Rajshahi Royals’.[8] In November 2019, post players draft,

2019-20 Bangladesh Premier League.[9]

Seasons

Bangladesh Premier League

Year League standing Final standing
2012 1st out of 6 Semi-finals
2013 4th out of 7 Playoffs
2015 Did not participate
2016 4th out of 7 Runners-up
2017 6th out of 7 League stage
2019 5th out of 7 League stage
2019–20 2nd out of 7 Champions

References

  1. ^ "7 teams announced for Bangabandhu BPL". daily Bangladesh. 16 November 2019.
  2. ^ "BPL 2022 franchises finalised, not team from Rajshahi or Rangpur". Bdcrictime.com. Dhaka. 12 December 2021. Retrieved 12 December 2021.
  3. ^ "BPL 2016 draft: As it happened". Dhaka Tribune. 30 September 2016. Retrieved 30 September 2016.
  4. ^ "BPL 4 players draft today". www.bdcricteam.com.
  5. ^ "Duminy to play for Rajshahi Kings in BPL". Cricbuzz. 21 July 2019.
  6. ^ "BCB set to arrange BPL without the franchises this year". The Daily Star. 11 September 2019.
  7. ^ "BCB to conduct T20 tournament instead of BPL after fallout with franchises". Cricbuzz. 11 September 2019.
  8. ^ "Bangabandhu BPL T20 2019 squads". Bangladesh Cricket Board. 17 November 2019.
  9. ^ "BPL 2019–20: Shoaib Malik joins Rajshahi Royals". BDCricTime. Retrieved 20 November 2019.
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