Later, Sri Lankan players like Romesh Kaluwitharana and Ashok de Silva also played in Sylhet. So are Indian cricketers Raman Lamba and Ajay Sharma. Players of the Bangladesh national cricket team regularly played in the Sylhet League. Not just Ghulam Farooq, former captain Ghazi Ashraf Hossain, Minhajul Abedin, Aminul Islam, Akram Khan, all have fond Sylhet League memories. The pay was good, cricket was very competitive.
Enamul Haque Junior, Rajin Saleh, Alok Kapali, Tapash Baishya – all these Sylhet cricketers have played in the Sylhet League before representing the country in the national team. Over the years, several cricketers from Sylhet have made it to the national team. But apart from Khalid Ahmed, all of them have either come from BCB’s age-level structure or from BKSP. In recent years there has hardly been anyone who has climbed the ladder in club cricket in Sylhet before making it to the national team.