2012 Khulna Royal Bengals forged a strong team with the likes of
Shakib Al Hasan as captain and some other well known players such as
Sanath Jayasuriya,
Shivnarine Chanderpaul,
Dwayne Smith and
Herschelle Gibbs. In the league stage, the team was pretty outstanding, advancing to the playoffs finishing only second to
Dhaka Gladiators. However, they lost a cliffhanger to Dhaka in the semi-finals, finishing off with a respectable outing
2013 After a strong last season, Khulna could not make a team as strong as their previous campaign. This time they have
Shahriar Nafees as captain who had
Riki Wessels,
Shapoor Zadran and more as company. Khulna had a disastrous season this time. Losing 75% of their 12 matches, finishing last at 7th.
2016 After a complete change in the franchise ownership and management Khulna Titans were established in advance of the
2016–17 Bangladesh Premier League. They had a stable team with the likes of sume talented Bangladeshi players such as
Mahmudullah (icon),
Shafiul Islam,
Ariful Haque,
Mosharraf Hossain. They added 9 overseas to their roster such as
Riki Wessels,
Junaid Khan,
Lendl Simmons,
Nicholas Pooran and
Andre Fletcher. They were able to get to the playoffs but were defeated by both
Rajshahi Kings and
Dhaka Dynamites. They ended up second in the team rankings with Junaid Khan as their leading wicket-taker and Mahmudullah as the leading scorer. They won nail-biting encounters against
Chittagong Vikings and
Rajshahi Kings in the league stage. They finished with being known as 'the team with the best bowling attack' as two of their seamers (Junaid and Shafiul) were in the top 10 most wickets list for the tournament and had a rather disappointing Batting lineup as most batter failed to show their potential other than Ariful and their icon.
2017 They re-signed
Mahmudullah Riyad as their icon while they also made contracts with
South African cricketers
Rilee Rossouw,
Kyle Abbott,
Aussie star
Chris Lynn (missed that BPL due to injury),
Windies'
2016 ICC World T20 hero
Carlos Brathwaite and his national teammate
Chadwick Walton. They also signed
Englishman Dawid Malan and
Lankan all-rounder
Seekkuge Prasanna and more. They retained
Junaid Khan,
Ariful Haque,
Shafiul Islam,
Mosharraf Hossain Rubel and
Benny Howell.
Pakistani Wicket-keeper batsman
Sarfraz Ahmed, leg spinner
Shadab Khan and Junaid will be unavailable for selection on a temporary basis due to domestic commitments. From the draft, the Titans signed 8 locals (more than minimum of 7) and 2 foreigners. Their first pick was bought
Nazmul Hossain Shanto while the surprise picks were U19 skipper
Saif Hassan and little-known local pacer
Imran Ali and
Barbados-born
English cricketer
Jofra Archer. The interesting thing about Imran is that he took a 5-wicket haul in his second
List-A match. They signed Sri Lankan batting all-rounder
Shehan Jayasuriya and other locals from the draft. Khulna Titans had the strong start with a win against
Sylhet Sixers. The team was pretty consistent throughout the tournament and finished 3rd in the league stage, hence qualifying to the playoffs. In the eliminator against
Rangpur Riders a one-man show from
Chris Gayle, who struck an unbeaten 126, blew the Titans away and had them eliminated.
2019 Khulna Titans retained
Mahmudullah Riyad,
Nazmul Hossain Shanto,
Ariful Haque and
Carlos Brathwaite. They also signed
English batsman
Dawid Malan and
American fast bowler
Ali Khan pre-draft. In the draft, the Titans got the very first pick and signed wicket-keeper batsman
Jahurul Islam. Their overseas signings in the draft included veteran seamer
Lasith Malinga, leg-spinner
Yasir Shah, wicket-keeper batsman
Brendan Taylor and more. Some of their domestic picks were
Junaid Siddiqui,
Subashis Roy,
Taijul Islam, the young left-arm seamer
Shoriful Islam and more.
2019/20 The franchise had signed former Australian captain and all-rounder
Shane Watson and South African leg spinner
Imran Tahir as their two direct overseas signings. However, during the player's direct signing period, a conflict of interest arose between BCB and all other franchises. Subsequently, in September 2019, BCB made some changes in the rules and regulations for the season. Eliminating all franchises, BCB took over charge of the current BPL and decided to run the tournament by the itself, renaming the tournament as the Bangabandhu BPL T20 2019 in order to pay homage to
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on his birth centenary.
Premier Bank Limited became the team sponsor of Khulna and the team was renamed to
Khulna Tigers. They signed the likes of
Mushfiqur Rahim and
Mohammad Amir in the draft. They had a great season in
2019-20 BPL. They finished the league stage being the table topper. They also reached the final. But the
Andre Russell show for
Rajshahi Royals shuttered their dream of winning the BPL title.
2022 This year they retained
Mushfiqur Rahim as their captain. They also took in local players, like -
Soumya Sarkar,
Mahedi Hasan etc. & foreign players, like -
Thisara Perera,
Andre Fletcher etc. They won 50% of their games in league stage and finished 4th at the points table. However, they lost to
Chattogram Challengers in the eliminator.
2023 In
2023 season, they signed the biggest name
Tamim Iqbal. The West Indian
Shai Hope captained Khulna Tigers in this season.
Fakhar Zaman,
Wahab Riaz,
Avishka Fernando were other big names. Khulna Tigers won only 3 of their 12 league stage games and finished the season at number 5.
2024 season International players were
Alex Hales,
Wayne Parnell,
Dasun Shanaka,
Evin Lewis,
Shai Hope and
Mohammad Nawaz and so on .
Anamul Haque captained Khulna Tigers in this season. The Khulna Tigers opened their campaign strongly winning all the first 4 games. But they could manage to win only a single match of their next 8 games. As a result, they got eliminated being the 5th team in the league stage points table.
2025 season Khulna Tigers were able to become the second runners up of this edition. The squad consisted of notable local stars such as Captain
Mehidy Hasan Miraz,
Hasan Mahmud and
Naim Sheikh. Foreign signings include
Alex Ross,
Mohammad Nawaz,
Shimron Hetmyer,
Jason Holder,
Will Bosisto,
Ibrahim Zadran,
Mohammad Hasnain as well as
Lewis Gregory. == Squad ==