The Bangladesh Cricket Board has come up with a directive to expand the national pool of players in the upcoming season of Bangladesh Premier League (BPL).

Each of the seven teams in the tournament has been asked to make sure they include an overseas pacer who bowls above 140 kmph and a leg-spinner.

Apart from this, each team has also been asked to have an overseas coach, physiotherapist and trainer, while local coaches can only work as assistants to the head coaches.

“BCB wants this BPL to be about improving Bangladesh's cricketers in T20s, so we want to make sure that our batsmen and bowlers get enough opportunities (against quicks and leg-spinners), something that was not possible when it was a franchise-based BPL,” ESPNcricinfo quoted Bangladesh Cricket Board director Mahbubul Anam as saying.

The next BPL edition will not be a franchise-run affair and, instead, be owned by the cricket board following its clash with six of the seven existing team owners, Dhaka Dynamites being the only exception.