Bihar Cricket League (BCL), is a Twenty 20 Cricket League in Bihar, India. An Initiative of Bihar Cricket Association (BCA) and ELITE SPORTS MANAGEMENT. Elite Sports Designed and executed the League similar to IPL with Coloured Clothing, Flood Lights and LIVE Telecast at Global Sports channel, EUROSPORT.
A franchise based cricket league started in 2021 was with 5 Teams namely, Patna Pilots, Angika Avengers, Bhagalpur Bulls, Gaya Gladiators and Darbhanga Diamonds. It was player at URJA STADIUM in Patna from 20th March, 2020 to 26th March, 2020 under Flood Lights.
Knowing BCA as one of the oldest cricket association of the country and being deprived of cricket for 16 years after the state split between Bihar and Jharkhand in 2000, players didn't have any platform to perform big.
BCL conducted an auction and 110 players were bought and got the opportunity to play the League and was LIVE telecast at EUROSPORT
Mentors like Danny Morrison, Venkatesh Prasad, Sanath Jayasuriya supporting on Video Call and so did T Dilshan.
BCL was Inaugurated by Hon Governor of Bihar, Sri Chauhan and Legendary Indian Cricket Captain, Mr Kapil.
Nishant Dayal, Director of Elite Sports elaborated - "A League is Created to give a Platform to the cricketers of small town to showcase their talent on a global sports channel and so did a few players but on TOP was BIPIN SAURABH , who scores 2 Hundreds and 1 Fifty with a strike rate of 200.00 plus. We have seen a hattrick as well by Himanshu, Few good knocks from rahmatulah, mangal, Himanshu, sakibul, sraman etc. "
Mr Pratyaya Amrit, IAS, Additional Chief Secretary of Bihar had the vision to make the stadium in Patna and URJA stadium was all his contribution, Mr Amrit was of a great help to the League. Nishant Dayal also had a substantial error free plan to construct the league
All stats of BCL is available at Yahoo ! Cricket https://cricket.yahoo.net/series/bihar-cricket-league-t20-2021-1886/stats
Dr Dayal Foundation also gave away cricket kits to the cricketers on the eve of BCL and former Crickets Mr Adhikari, Late Mr Prateek Narain (his wife, Daisy Narain) were felicitated