Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) president Faruque Ahmed held a meeting with former Bangladesh captains at the BCB premises today to discuss how to develop the Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) and to take their opinion on what could be the best possible window to hold the tournament.

The BPL currently clashes with franchise leagues such as SA20 and ILT20, which has led to many foreign stars choosing those tournaments over BPL in the last three seasons.

BPL's current window, spanning from late December to early February, was mandated by the ICC in 2022 and is supposed to run till 2027.

However, after the meeting with former captains like Akram Khan, Habibul Bashar and Mohammad Ashraful and some current players like Mominul Haque, Liton Das and Taijul Islam, the BCB president in a video message shared online claimed they have found a new window for BPL, however, he did not disclose it.

"We have begun work on the next BPL and in this plan, we have found a window. We all know that there are many franchise tournaments in different countries that clash with us. So, we want to do it differently in order to get quality foreign players.

"We held a meeting today [Monday] with former captains and all of them gave their suggestions. We got some wonderful suggestions. We will take those into consideration so we can use them moving forward," Faruque said.

Former captain Rajin Saleh told reporters that the discussion was not only limited to BPL, as "how to develop the NCL T20 and improve first-class cricket, those things were also discussed."

Faruque also informed that the BCB will share a considerable portion of its revenue from ticket sales worth Tk 13.25 crore with the seven franchises that played in BPL 11.

"Although revenue-sharing is done in all areas, we haven't been able to do it across the board. But we will surely try to distribute a sizable portion of the revenue earned from ticket sales among the seven franchises."