Tamim Iqbal and Mahmudullah decline CPL contract for this season

 

Bangladesh players like Tamim Iqbal and Mahmudullah have declined the offers from Caribbean Premier League(CPL) teams. The Windies T20 tournament is slated to be played from August 18 in Trinidad and Tobago behind closed doors.

“I was very close to signing with one of the teams but my family is my main concern, and they are also worried about me traveling during this time. I have played in the CPL previously and have always enjoyed my experience there,” ESPNCricinfo quoted Mahmudullah as saying.

On the other hand, Tamim declined the offer as the domestic season of Bangladesh will start from August onwards and it is clashing with CPL.

“One of the teams approached me but since our domestic competition could start any time, that’s why I decided not to go,” ESPNCricinfo quoted Tamim as saying. As both of them have appeared in the previous editions of CPL.

The CPL will be the first major domestic cricket league to start amid the coronavirus pandemic and it is going to take place in Trinidad & Tobago, starting August 18.

The CPL will have a full season which includes the overseas and Caribbean players including names like Rashid Khan, Carlos Brathwaite, Dwayne Bravo, Alex Hales, and Kieron Pollard set to take part.

“The CPL has worked with the Trinidad & Tobago Ministry of Health and the CPL’s own board of medical advisors to create protocols which minimize the risk of transmission of the COVID-19 virus to the population of Trinidad and in amongst those who will be traveling to Trinidad & Tobago from overseas,” the organisers had said in a statement.

“All teams and officials will be housed in one hotel and everyone will be subject to strict quarantine protocols for the first two weeks they are in the country. Everyone traveling from overseas will be tested for COVID-19, before departure and then again on arrival in Trinidad,” it added.

All the members, players, and officials who will be taking part in the CPL 2020 will be subject to regular temperature checks and they will be regularly tested for the virus throughout their stay in Trinidad and again before departure.