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| Personnel | |
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| Captain | Yasir Ali |
| Team information | |
| Home ground | Zohur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium,Chittagong |
| Capacity | 22,000 |
| History | |
| First-class debut | in 1999-2000 |
| National Cricket League wins | 1 |
| National Cricket League One-Day wins | 1 |
Chattogram Division cricket team represents theChittagong Division, one of the eight administrative regions inBangladesh. The team was founded in 1999 to compete in theNational Cricket League (NCL) and playsfirst-class cricket. For the short-livedNational Cricket League Twenty20 in 2010, the team adopted the nameCyclones of Chittagong. The equivalent team in theBangladesh Premier League is theChittagong Kings.
Chittagong Division play most of their home games at theBir Shrestho Flight Lieutenant Matiur Rahman Cricket Stadium (BSFLMRCS) in the port city ofChittagong. The BSFLMRCS has superseded the olderDistrict Stadium, Chottogram (DSC) as Chittagong's main cricket venue. The District Stadium is now used primarily for football.
Before Bangladesh became independent,Chittagong was part ofEast Pakistan and it had a cricket team which was scheduled to take part in theQuaid-i-Azam Trophy in both 1959–60 and 1964–65, and in theAyub Trophy in 1962–63. None of the scheduled matches took place as all were abandoned without any start of play. East Pakistan cricket had a chequered history and it was only after independence that cricket in Bangladesh gained any real significance.
The earliest known match involving a Chittagong Division team was in March 1980 when they playedRajshahi Division in an Inter-Divisional Championship competition. In March 1986, they took part in a National Cricket Championship and reached the quarter-final stage. These were not first-class competitions and it was not until the late 1990s, after Bangladesh had made progress in international cricket, that there was any possibility of first-class cricket at the domestic level.
Bangladesh won the1997 ICC Trophy and so qualified for the1999 Cricket World Cup. There was then the very real prospect (realised in 2000) of the country being admitted to full membership of theInternational Cricket Council (the ICC) and so steps were taken to create an organised national championship. The result was the NCL which began in the1999–2000 season, though it did not have first-class status until the2000–01 season. It was decided that the NCL teams should represent each of the country's six (at that time) administrative divisions and so a Chittagong Division team was formed, playing its matches at the M. A. Aziz Stadium in Chittagong, theComilla Stadium inComilla and theNiaz Mohammad Stadium inBrahmanbaria. Chittagong Division won the 1999–2000 championship.
In 2000–01, Chittagong Division became a first-class team and has continued to compete in the NCL but with no further titles to 2016. TheList A One-Day Cricket League began in 2000–01 and ran until 2010–11 when it was terminated. Chittagong Division won the competition once, in 2003–04.
Chittagong played in theBangladesh NCL (National Cricket League) Twenty20 tournament which was staged for one season only, 2009–10, and used the nameCyclones of Chittagong (CC). The team's official colours were blue and white. Though captained byNafees Iqbal and featuringTamim Iqbal, the Cyclones were unsuccessful. They lost four of their five games and finished fifth in the six-team league.
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