Given the country’s ongoing severe heat wave Abahani Limited head coach and Bangladesh Cricket Board director Khaled Mahmud feels that they need to swap the calendar of the Dhaka Premier League to avoid scorching heat that hampers player performance and also might cause severe health hazards.

The inhabitants of the country are awfully suffering from the heat wave that has been blowing for the last couple of weeks.

According to the Bangladesh Metrological Department, the landscape has been experiencing such a high volume of temperature that they have encountered  earlier than 58 years ago that made life miserable on a large scale.

‘I feel that if we tried, we could shift the calendar for playing the games. We used to select one-day international players from this competition, where the performance of our boys is undeniable and we need to focus on that,’ said Mahmud on Sunday.

'As a board director, I know that this is tough, but still, we need to plan whether we can design a new calendar for DPL,’ he added.

The country’s maximum temperature on Saturday was recorded at 42.2 degree celsius at Chuadanga.

The BMD also asserted that there is no possibility of immediate relief from the scorching heat in Bangladesh.

The ongoing edition of the Dhaka Premier League that commenced on March 15 is expected to be finished in the middle of May.