The Women’s Bangladesh Cricket League is a domestic first-class cricket competition of Bangladesh. It began in 2023 as a competition where each match would last for no more than two days. The format changed in 2023-24 when each match’s length increased to three days.
The tournament commenced after test status was given to the Banglesh women’s cricket team by the International Cricket Council. In order to make their cricketers more adept for the longer format of the game, the Women’s Bangladesh Cricket League was conceived.
In its first edition, the teams were named after the three rivers of Bangladesh – Jamuna, Meghna, and Padma. The subsequent edition saw the participation of four teams, each representing a zone of the country (North, East, South, and Central). Each team has a squad of fifteen players.
The tournament follows a round-robin format wherein each team plays the other once. A win is worth two points, a loss is worth zero points, and a draw or no result leads to each team getting one point. At the end of the round-robin matches, the team with the maximum points wins. If two teams are tied at the same number of points, then the runs per wicket ratio or the net run-rate acts as the tiebreaker.
As of 2024, Ritu Moni is the top-scorer of the tournament with 172 runs. Nahida Akter is the leading wicket-taker with seven scalps to her name. The inaugural edition was won by Team Meghna after all matches ended in a draw. They were declared the winners based on the quotient, also known as the runs per wicket ratio.
