Prime Bank Cricket Club

Prime Bank Cricket Club

Nickname(s)	PBCC
Personnel
Captain	Tamim Iqbal
Coach	Mohammad Salahuddin
Owner	Prime Bank
Team information
Founded	2012
History
No. of titles	1

Prime Bank Cricket Club, owned by Prime Bank Limited, plays List A cricket in the Dhaka Premier Division in Bangladesh. It won the tournament in 2014–15.^[1] The club also participated in the 2013–14 Victory Day T20 Cup and was crowned the champions.^[2][3]

History

Prime Bank Limited established its cricket club and associated cricket academy in 2012, when it bought the ownership rights of the Old DOHS Sports Club cricket team.^[4] When the Dhaka Premier Division resumed in 2013-14 after a one-season hiatus, with List A status for the first time, Prime Bank Cricket Club was one of the 12 competing teams.^[5]

In 2014-15 Old DOHS returned to the Dhaka Premier Division as a separate team. Prime Bank won the first encounter between the two teams by 41 runs,^[6] and went on to win the championship.

List A record

• 2013–14: 15 matches, won 7, finished fifth
• 2014–15: 16 matches, won 13, champions
• 2015–16: 16 matches, won 7, finished sixth
• 2016–17: 16 matches, won 10, finished fourth
• 2017–18: 11 matches, won 5, finished ninth
• 2018–19: 16 matches, won 8, finished fifth
• 2021–22: 15 matches, won 10, finished third
• 2022–23: 16 matches, won 10, finished third
• 2023–24: 16 matches, won 10, finished third

Farhad Reza and Mahmudullah captained the team when they won the title in 2014–15. Mithun Ali captained the team in 2021–22 and 2022–23. Tamim Iqbal and Zakir Hasan were the captains in 2023–24.

Current squad

Players with international caps are listed in bold

Name	Nat	Batting style	Bowling style	Notes
Batsmen
Rubel Mia		Right-hand bat	Right-arm medium
Nazmul Hossain Milon		Right-hand bat	Right-arm medium
Abhimanyu Easwaran		Right-hand bat	Right-arm leg break
Sudip Chatterjee		Left-hand bat	Right-arm leg break
All-rounders
Alok Kapali		Right-hand bat	Right-arm leg break
Al-Amin		Right-hand bat	Right-arm off break
Ariful Haque		Right-hand bat	Right-arm medium-fast
Salman Hossain		Right-hand bat	Right-arm fast-medium
Wicketkeepers
Anamul Haque		Right-hand bat	-	Captain
Zakir Hasan		Left-hand bat	-
Naman Ojha		Right-hand bat	-
Spin Bowlers
Abdur Razzak		Left-hand bat	Slow left-arm orthodox
Monir Hossain		Right-hand bat	Slow left-arm orthodox
Nahidul Islam		Right-hand bat	Right-arm off break
Nayeem Hasan		Right-hand bat	Right-arm off break
Bowlers
Al-Amin Hossain		Right-hand bat	Right-arm medium-fast
Mohor Sheikh		Right-hand bat	Right-arm medium
Imran Ali		Right-hand bat	Right-arm fast-medium
Nur Alam Saddam		Right-hand bat	Right-arm medium

Records

Prime Bank's highest score is 184 by Anamul Haque in 2021–22, and the best bowling figures are 8 for 23 (the overall competition record) by Rejaur Rahman Raja in 2023–24.

See also

• List of Prime Bank Cricket Club cricketers

References

1. "Soumya Sarkar leads Prime Bank to title win". Cricinfo. Retrieved 28 March 2015.
2. "Prime Bank take Victory crown". The Daily Star. Archived from the original on 4 January 2014. Retrieved 7 May 2021.
3. "Das, Rubel secure title for Prime Bank". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 20 April 2021.
4. "Prime Bank Cricket Club Launched". Prime Bank Limited. Retrieved 30 April 2016.
5. "DPL set to begin on November 11". The News International. Retrieved 16 May 2021.
6. "Old DOHS Sports Club v Prime Bank Cricket Club 2014-15". CricketArchive. Retrieved 30 April 2016.

External links

• List A matches played by Prime Bank Cricket Club at CricketArchive