Cricket has been a Revolution in India it works as a religion, in a Cricket Friendly nation like India, Cricket fans are so crazy, they wanted to live every moment of every game, Even the Cricket Players after getting Retirement from their International Scene wanting to continue playing for their Passion, Fitness, Brotherhood and top of all their Passion for the game.
Making this thought alive , BVCI being introduced in 1988, by Legendary Cricketer Late Chetan Chauhan) for providing an Opportunity for Retired Players to continue their passion to be active in the game of Cricket, Late Chetan Chauhan has done some finest work for developing Veteran Cricket in India, along with Praveen Tyagi, however in 2020, during the Pandemic wave, Chetan Chauhan’s sad demise created a huge void, but Veteran cricket Board being lucky, when very humbly Hon’ble Central Minister Shri. Nitin Gadkari jee, accepted to become the National President.
Which really gave so much hopes for Veteran Cricket in India, under his proud leadership- BVCI saw the dream of organizing for the first time Bharat Veteran Premier League, (BVPL) this is being planned to commorate 25the Years of Boards existence of India.
That’s when, the Acting President Praveen Tyagi took the Lead along with his Team, Announced 6 Franchisee lead, Bharat Veteran Premier League. BVPL in beginning of 2023, to Mark the 25th Year of Board as well as a Perfect Tribute to Chetan Sahib too.
On 1st October-23, Lalit Hotel Mumbai became alive with the Presence of Acting President of BVCI Board Praveen Tyagi along with Board Officials for Players Draft Event for upcoming Bharat Veteran Premier League– BVPL . Organised by IPCA- Indian Power Cricket Academy, their team was also present for making it, larger then life event, everything came live around 11:00 AM, when Shefali Bagga- (Big Boss season -13 contestant, ) invited BVCI’s ( Board for Veteran Cricket in India) Executive Member & COO – BVPL, Alok Saxena on Stage for starting the proceedings of the day.
With his Welcome address, Alok introduced All Board Official s, which were present, on a Special dedicated Table, with Acting President of the Board Praveen Tyagi, secretary – BVCI – Sudhir Kulkarni, Chandrasenan Nair- joint Secretary, J K Mahindra- Vice President, Vinod Phadke- Vice President, Shailesh Shah -Vice President- West Zone, Arun Taploo- Cricket Chair, Ms. Bindiya, Vishwajeet Singh- Executive Member, due to health issues Rajeev Tyagi, Executive member could not attend the event.
This was definitely proud moments for all the Boards Officials. Who had flown from various parts of the country, to attend this great extravaganza.
Alok’s very Professional Opening of Event gave the perfect start, like a Opening of a 20:20 Match, He Introduced all Board officials with august gathering & Live audience hooked on their YouTube link for this live event, Alok further introduced all 6 Franchisee Owners of BVPL by calling them on Stage one by one, as this was the first time Franchisee owners got introduced on Stage by the Board in any event.
All 6 young Cricket lover entrepreneurs’ Franchisees First it was franchisee owner of VVIP Uttar Pradesh – Vibhor Tyagi – young budding entrepreneur – Managing Director VVIP group, alongwith Dev Deep Tyagi- another amazing personality , Noted Sports journalist, running his own website caught at point ,were delighted to be part of BVPL.
Followed by Rohit Bawri- Busines Man from Jaiour, Owner of Rajasthan Legends Sadhan Ghosh- Owner Chhattisgarh Warriors, Gaurang Aggarwal & Harsh Sagar Jain – Frenchisee owners of Mumbai Champions, Devesh Tyagi & Manjul Arora – Red Carpet Delhi last but not the least Govinda Raju- Amazing Cricketer, businessman, who understands the Game quite well owns Telangana Tigers, after this brief introduction, Shefali invited called Acting President Praveen Tyagi on Stage for informing the other details of BVPL, Praveen Tyagi like always , who is a biggest lover of the game and a True Ambassador of Veteran Cricket in India, has really worked very hard to made the dream seeing the reality, specified that, total 6 Franchisee Teams for BVPL.
Each team will have 2 Foreign Nation International Cricketer + 2 Indian International Cricketers, per franchise to add the magic for BVPL, which will have very competitive impact on the entire League.
Finally, Shefali Bagga invited, International Cricketers Parvez Maharoof, Atul Wasan, to start the Player’s Draft & Bid Ceremony, both these Legends charmed the event with their charismatic knowledge and amazing Persona, which made the entire Player’s Draft an evening to remember for all Players, & Officials of BVCI.
Young and budding Anchor, Suhas Vedham been a perfect livewire to make the entire ceremony becoming more interesting for players & Officials, even Audience watching live.
Following icon Players are part of Franchise Team through Draft, Being Formed.
| Team | International Icons | Country | Bharat Icons |
| VVIP Uttar Pradesh | Michael Clarke | Australia | Anureet Singh |
| VVIP Uttar Pradesh | Christopher MPOFU | Zinwabwe | Mayank Tehlan |
| Rajat Bhatia |
| Mumbai Champions | Phil Mustard | England | Pradeep Sahu |
| Mumbai Champions | Chris Morris | South Africa | Sumit Narwal |
| Telangana Tigers | Chris Gayle | West Indies | Manpreet Goni |
| Telangana Tigers | Robert Frylinck | South Africa | Sudeep Tyagi |
| Red Carpet Delhi | Santh Jayasurya | Sri Lanka | Abhimanyu Mithun |
| Red Carpet Delhi | Thisara Parera | Sri Lanka | Bipul Sharma |
| Rajasthan Legends | Farveez Maharoof | Sri Lanka | Praveen Kumar |
| Rajasthan Legends | Seekkuge Prasanna | Sri Lanka | Ishan Malhotra |
| Chhattisgarh Warriors | Albie Morkel | South Africa | Pravinder Awana |
| Chhattisgarh Warriors | Dilshan Munaweera | Sri Lanka | Manvinder Bisla |
It was a Very Well Organized Event with more than 400 registered Players of BVCI , gone through the Action, Finally Each Franchisee had to Choose apart from 4 ICONS, a Squad of 16 Members. Following are the Teams of BVPL. This was one of the best event Organized by BVCI.
