Sylhet Super Stars
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| Captain: | Shahid Afridi |
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| Coach: | Sarwar Imran |
| City: | Sylhet, Bangladesh |
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| Owner: | Alif Group |
| Founded: | 2015 |
| Home ground: |
Sylhet International Stadium (Capacity: 20,000) |
| BPL wins: | 0 |
Sylhet Super Stars (Bengali: সিলেট সুপার স্টার ,often abbreviated as SSS) is a franchise cricket team that plays in the Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) representing the division of Sylhet, Bangladesh. The team is captained by Shahid Afridi and owned by Alif Group.
Sylhet Super Stars theme song of Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) 2015 will also come to light very soon. Earlier in Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) 2012 the team was introduced by a folk song in Sylheti language. The theme song was very famous especially among the cricket loving persons.
Team history
In 2012, The Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) created the cricket tournament Bangladesh Premier League based on the Twenty20 form of the game. For the inaugural tournament held in February of the same year, a list of 6 teams who will be participating in the tournament was finalised. The teams representing 2 different divisions of Bangladesh, including Sylhet, were put up on auction in Radisson Hotels on 19 January. Sylhet Royals was bought by Walton Group for a price of USD 1.06 million (BDT 88,722,000)
2012 season
Alok Kapali was the icon player for Sylhet Royals. The team was led by Englishman Peter Trego. The team bought star players including batsmen Imrul Kayes, Scott Styris, Kamran Akmal. They had world class bowlers of the likes of Sohail Tanvir, Brad Hogg, Rubel Hossain. The most expensive player, Sohail Tanvir was bought for $100,000.
The Sylhet Royals started off their campaign with a strong total with half centuries from captain Peter Trego and icon player Alok Kapali. However they were ill prepared for the impressive force of Chris Gayle who opened the tournament with a century. From then Sylhet failed to break into a winning rhythm. Their efforts against the Gladiators were poor as they were bowled out within their overs. After two consecutive loses they then came to tight lose against Khulna whom they lost against by two runs chasing a big target.
2015 season
Bangladesh Premier League 3rd season Sylhet Super Stars is going to play with new name of replace of Sylhet Royals .Sylhet Super Stars player list and full team squad publish after player auction on 26 October. Pakistani sensational all-rounder Boom Boom Shahid Afridi has confirmed as Sylhet Super Stars Player.
Sylhet Royals played the first two Bangladesh Premier League which was held in 2012 and 2013 under the ownership of Walton. But this year the ownership status of Sylhet has been changed which eventually lead to a name change event for the team. This team is currently known as Sylhet Super Stars and owned by Alif Group who was earlier the owner of Barisal Burners.
Current squad
| Name | Nat | Batting style | Bowling style | Notes | ||
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| Batsmen | ||||||
| Brad Hodge |  | Right-hand bat | Right-arm off spin | International Cap | ||
| Mominul Haque |  | Left-hand bat | Slow left-arm orthodox | International Cap | ||
| Mushfiqur Rahim | | Right-hand bat | Wicketkeeper | Captain, International Cap | ||
| Joshua Cobb |  | Right-hand bat | Right-arm off break | |||
| Junaid Siddique | | Left-hand bat | Right-arm off break | International Cap | ||
| Nurul Hasan | | Right-hand bat | Wicketkeeper | |||
| Abu Sayem Chowdhury | | Right-hand bat | Right-arm off break | |||
| Owais Shah | | Right-hand bat | Right-arm off break | International Cap | ||
| All-Rounders | ||||||
| Dilshan Munaweera |  | Right-hand bat | Right-arm off spin | International Cap | ||
| Shahid Afridi |  | Right-hand bat | Right arm leg break | International Cap, Captain | ||
| Kieron Pollard |  | Right-hand bat | Right-arm medium-fast | International Cap | ||
| Ravi Bopara | | Right-hand bat | Right-arm medium | International Cap | ||
| Nazmul Hossain Milon | | Right-hand bat | Right arm medium | |||
| Bowlers | ||||||
| Chris Jordan | | Right-hand bat | Right-arm medium | International Cap | ||
| Sohail Tanvir | | Left-hand bat | Left arm medium fast | International cap | ||
| Rubel Hossain | | Right-hand bat | Right-arm fast | International Cap | ||
| Abdur Razzak | | Left-hand bat | Slow left-arm orthodox | International Cap | ||
| Mohammad Shahid | | Right-hand bat | Right-arm medium-fast | International Cap | ||
| Nazmul Islam | | Right-hand bat | Left arm orthodox | |||
| Ajantha Mendis | | Right-hand bat | Right-arm off spin | International Cap | ||
| Fidel Edwards |  | Right-hand bat | Right-arm fast | International Cap | ||
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