, Jan. 1 -- The Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) will not be played in Chattogram this season, with the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) revising the tournament schedule and shifting all fixtures originally allocated to the port city to Sylhet.

Under the earlier plan, the Chattogram leg was set to begin on January 5.

However, BPL officials confirmed that those matches have now been relocated to Sylhet, extending the Sylhet phase of the tournament from January 2 to January 12.

The competition will then move to Dhaka, where the knockout rounds and final will be staged.

BPL Governing Council member secretary Iftekhar Rahman said the media that the decision was taken to ease broadcast logistics and to align preparations with Bangladesh's upc...