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The Empty Seat Before the First Ball: Bangladesh's Pace Revolution, the Workload Bill, and a Crowd Living Three Hours Behind
The NOC Chain of Custody: How the Franchise Calendar Is Rewriting Bangladeshi Cricketers' Market Value
The Silent Ledger of Middle Overs: Why Bangladesh Changes Its Mind in the 12th Over
The NOC Season: Bangladesh's Contract War in the Shadow of the T20 World Cup
The Families Sitting at the Auction Table: A Locker-Room Report on Cricket's Franchise Transfer Window
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2026-09-17Thailand Women91/4 (11 ov)Pakistan Women92/7 (10.4 ov)Pakistan won by 3 wickets
2026-09-17South Africa Women205/4 (20 ov)Zimbabwe Women125/5 (20 ov)South Africa won by 80 runs
2026-09-17Kenya216/5 (20 ov)Botswana152/3 (20 ov)Kenya won by 64 runs
2026-09-17Uganda188/2 (20 ov)Rwanda116/9 (20 ov)Uganda won by 72 runs
2026-09-17United Arab Emirates216/3 (20 ov)Malaysia157/5 (20 ov)United Arab Emirates won by 59 runs
2026-09-17Sri Lanka145/9 (20 ov)England146/4 (12.1 ov)England won by 6 wickets
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Auditing the Transfer Window: Release Clauses, Agent Phone Calls and the Mis-Priced Columns of Bangladesh's Franchise MarketHook: The Column That Is Always Empty In the last week of February 2026, the...
NOC, Budget Caps and the Tournament Premium: How Bangladeshi Cricketers Actually Get Priced in the Franchise WindowOn an auction night in January the name stayed on the screen for thirty-eight...
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The NOC Chain of Custody: How the Franchise Calendar Is Rewriting Bangladeshi Cricketers' Market ValueAt the BPL auction table in a Dhaka hotel ballroom last December, I noticed...
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The Ghost of the Death Overs: Building a Phase-Equity Model for the BPL118 matches. Three BPL seasons, 2026 to 2026. The first line of my notebook...
NOC, Category and Visa Stamp: Where the Franchise Cricket Market Is Actually SettledAt twenty past midnight a PDF landed on WhatsApp. The filename carried a date...
The January Window: From the Auction Table to the World Cup FloodlightsThe January Window: From the Auction Table to the World Cup Floodlights On a...
Blockchain Will Change Cricket's Ledgers, But in Whose Books?The spreadsheet opened, and the match report stopped breathing. In 2026,...
The Families Sitting at the Auction Table: A Locker-Room Report on Cricket's Franchise Transfer WindowIn February, standing in the corridor on the second floor of a Dhaka hotel, I...
The Calendar Picks the XI: Bangladesh's Real Problem Before the 2026 T20 World CupIn the 17th over at Mirpur, the No. 7 batter walked in needing 52 off 18. Fir...
The Transfer Window's Empty Columns: From Rumor Noise to the Quiet NOC SignalThe Transfer Window's Empty Columns: From Rumor Noise to the Quiet NOC Signal...
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