The Khulna Division cricket team is a first-class team representing the Khulna Division in south-west Bangladesh, one of the country's eight administrative regions. The team competes in the National Cricket League and National Cricket League Twenty20. They were a participant in the now-defunct National Cricket League One-Day.
While the team originally adopted the name Kings of Khulna for the inaugural NCL T20 season in 2010, it returned to the format under the divisional name for the 2024–25 NCL T20 revival. Khulna played in black and yellow. The equivalent team in the Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) is the Khulna Tigers.
Khulna's main home ground is the Khulna Divisional Stadium in Khulna city, which has a capacity of 15,000.
Khulna have won the NCL seven times, including the three consecutive seasons 2015–16, 2016–17, and 2017–18, and they won the 2002–03 National Cricket League One-Day.
Honours National Cricket League (7) – 2002–03, 2007–08, 2012–13, 2015–16, 2016–17, 2017–18, 2019–20 One-Day Cricket League (1) – 2002–03
Seasons Season NCL One-Day NCL T20 1999–2000 4th 2000–01 4th 2001–02 5th 5th 2002–03 1st 1st 2003–04 3rd 3rd 2004–05 3rd 3rd 2005–06 6th 6th 2006–07 6th 6th 2007–08 1st 3rd 2008–09 3rd 4th 2009–10 4th not held Runners Up 2010–11 5th 4th 2011–12 2nd 2012–13 1st 2013–14 4th 2014–15 2nd 2015–16 1st 2016–17 1st 2017–18 1st 2018–19 3rd 2019–20 1st
Current squad , the squad for the 2023–24 season.
Name Nat Batting style Bowling style NotesBatsmanAnamul Haque Right-handed bat Right arm medium Imrul Kayes Left-handed bat — Soumya Sarkar Left-hand bat Right-arm medium Amit Majumder Left-hand bat Left-arm leg breakMohammad Mithun Right-hand bat Batsman WicketkeeperNurul Hasan Right-hand bat Batsman All-RoundersZiaur Rahman Right-hand bat Right-arm fast medium Mehedi Hasan Right-hand bat Right-arm off break BowlersRubel Hossain Right-handed bat Right-arm medium fast Al-Amin Hossain Right-hand bat Right-arm medium-fast Robiul Islam Right-hand bat Right-arm off break Tipu Sultan Left-hand bat Slow left-arm orthodox Mustafizur Rahman Left-hand bat Left-arm medium-fast Nahidul Islam — — Imran Uzzaman — — Hasanuzzaman — —
Venues Until 2004 Khulna used Shamsul Huda Stadium in Jessore for its home matches. Since then it has played most of its home matches at Khulna Divisional Stadium in Khulna, which is now also a Test venue.
Records At the end of the 2019–20 season Khulna Division had played 161 first-class matches, with 50 wins, 39 losses and 72 draws. The highest score is 216 by Anamul Haque against Rangpur Division in 2017–18. The best innings bowling figures are 9 for 84 and 9 for 91, both by Abdur Razzak. Razzak also has the best match figures of 15 for 193 (8 for 123 and 7 for 70), against Barisal Division in 2011–12.
References
Other sources Wisden Cricketers Almanack (annual): various issues
External links Khulna Division at CricketArchive CricInfo re Bangladesh