Bangladesh star all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan will play for Jamaica Tallawahs in this year’s edition of the Caribbean Premier League (CPL). The franchise has confirmed the signing of Shakib on Thursday.

Shakib played in this popular tournament before and showed some good performance. His first team was Barbados Tridents where he played in 2013 and 2018-19 season. And his current team Tallawahs signed him once before this year which was in 2016-17 season.

Shakib has played 28 matches till now in CPL. He scored 594 runs and took 29 wickets in these matches.

Shakib’s teammates are not known yet because the CPL authorities will announce the final squad of the eight participating teams on Friday (May 28).

The CPL was organized last year also amid the coronavirus pandemic with bio-bubble zone. This time there will be same arrangements too. The tournament will start on August 28 and end on mid-September. Due to Covid-19 situation, all the matches of the last tournament were held in Trinidad and Tobago. This time there will be one venue only but the venue had changed. All 33 matches of this year’s event will be played at Warner Park Stadium in St. Kitts.

Although there were no spectators on the field in the last edition, it had been decided to keep spectators irrespective to the half of the capacity of the stadium, i.e. 50 per cent. However, the general people will only be allowed to enter the field if they take the coronavirus vaccine.