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The Bangladesh Cricket Board has barred Aussie cricketer Steve Smith from participating in the upcoming Bangladesh Premier League. The reason for this was that he was not named in the initial players' list.

He had been signed by the Comilla Victorians as a replacement for Shoaib Malik.

"The rule of the tournament is that if a franchise takes a replacement, his name should be in the list of initial players' draft. But Smith's name was not there," said Bangladesh Cricket Board chief Nizamuddin Chowdhury.

"Some franchises raised objection about it. So we have to bar him from playing the BPL," he said.