Taijul becomes first Bangladeshi to earn SA20 contract

Left-arm spinner Taijul Islam has become the first Bangladeshi cricketer to be signed by a team in South Africa’s franchise competition, the SA20. Durban Super Giants bought him at Tuesday’s auction for 500,000 rand — about Tk 34.9 lakh. It means, if the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) grants him an NOC, Taijul will finally get to play a foreign league outside the BPL. It wasn’t a great day for the rest of the Bangladesh names. Twenty-three had registered, 14 made the final shortlist. Only Taijul was picked. Mustafizur Rahman’s name came up, but no team raised a paddle. Shakib Al Hasan and Litton Das weren’t even in the final pool. Mahmudullah Riyad, once a fixture in these lists, was cut...