| Personnel | |
|---|---|
| Captain | Akbar Ali |
| Coach | n/a |
| Owner | Bangladesh Cricket Board |
| Team information | |
| Founded | 2011 |
| Home ground | Rangpur Cricket Garden |
| Capacity | 10,000 |
| History | |
| National Cricket League wins | 2 |
| NCL T20 wins | 1 |
TheRangpur Division cricket team is a Bangladeshifirst-class team representing theRangpur Division, the northernmost of the eight administrative regions inBangladesh. The team competes in theNational Cricket League (NCL). Their home venue is theRangpur Cricket Garden inRangpur City. Rangpur are a relatively recent addition to the NCL, having joined in 2011–12, and won their first title in 2014–15. The equivalent team in theBangladesh Premier League (BPL) is theRangpur Riders.
Rangpur Division was formed on 25 January 2010, as Bangladesh's seventh administrative division. Before that, the territory had been the northern eight districts of theRajshahi Division and the new Rangpur division consists of the same eight districts. As theNational Cricket League has always been based on the administrative divisions, it was decided to invite a Rangpur team and so increase the competition's membership from the existing six. In order to keep the membership an even number, the NCL also invitedDhaka Metropolis to join. The two new teams made their NCL debuts in the2011–12 season. In the2014–15 season, Rangpur won their first NCL championship in a last-ball finish on the final day of the competition. They were clear winners in 2022–23.
At the end of the 2024–25 competition Rangpur Division had played a total of 85 first-class matches with 25 wins, 19 defeats and 41 draws.[1]
Rangpur Division has had fourTest players:Nasir Hossain,Naeem Islam senior,Sajidul Islam andSuhrawadi Shuvo. Team captains have beenTariq Ahmed (2011–12), Suhrawadi Shuvo (2012–13 and 2013–14), Sajidul Islam (2014–15) andDhiman Ghosh (2015–16).
The two highest scores for Rangpur Division were made in the same innings: Dhiman Ghosh made 183 andAlauddin Babu 180, and they shared a fifth-wicket partnership of 322, which is also Rangpur Division's highest partnership for any wicket, in the match againstChittagong Division in 2011–12.[2] The best bowling figures are 7 for 64 bySanjit Saha, at the age of 17, againstKhulna Division in 2015–16.[3]