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Two Dhaka Premier League games were postponed at the BKSP grounds in Savar on Tuesday due to a highway accident. According to tournament officials, all four teams were detained in traffic on the Dhaka-Aricha highway for hours.
The original Wednesday programme has been moved to Thursday, and both matches have been moved to Wednesday. At the BKSP-3 ground, the Sheikh Jamal Dhanmondi Club played Legends of Rupganj, and at the BKSP-4 ground, Prime Bank Cricket Club played Partex Sporting Club. The start time was scheduled at 9:00 a.m. local time.
News reports state that at 5.30 a.m. on Tuesday, an oil vehicle on the Dhaka-Aricha highway caught fire after it overturned close to the Hemayetpur bus stop. A adjacent private vehicle and four additional trucks caught fire as well.
The daily Prothom Alo was informed by Savar’s fire service and civil defence station officer, Muhammad Nurul Islam, that eight people were hospitalised at the Sheikh Hasina National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery and that one person had passed away.
There was a significant tailback in the region on both sides of the road due to the accident. The four teams were attempting to travel the approximately 25 km to the Savar venues. Typically, teams travel the Dhaka-Aricha highway and exit through the Gabtoli neighbourhood of the city.
Because BKSP is 40 miles from the capital, BKSP matches are frequently a headache for teams in the Dhaka competitions. When Surjo Tarun Club and Cricket Coaching School (CCS) failed to show up on time for their DPL matches at BKSP in 2012 and 2013, respectively, they were unceremoniously demoted from the Dhaka Premier League.
In 2018, Kalabagan Krira Chakra and Mohammedan Sporting Club also arrived late for a DPL match. But by then, the BCB organisation in charge of the leagues, the Cricket Committee of Dhaka Metropolis, had added a provision to the tournament bylaws to prevent a repeat of that kind of thing.