Arafat Sani of Dhaka Dominators won the toss and batted not well for Chittagong Challengers. They scored 118 runs after losing 8 wickets with the bat of Usman Khan and Ziaur Rahman who could score runs in double figures. That is not unusual in T20. But even with this run, Chittagong won. Dhaka stopped the Dominators within 103 runs by bowling tight. Chittagong left the field with a great victory of 15 runs.

On the other hand, in the last match of this season, Dhaka means defeat. This is Chittagong’s third win in the eleventh match. By collecting 6 points, they have risen from the bottom of the points table to sixth place. On the other hand, Dhaka is in fifth place with 6 points from 12 matches.

Dhaka kept losing wickets at regular intervals from the start chasing runs. They lost 8 wickets before the team reached 100. In the end, they could not score more than 103 runs for 9 wickets. Captain Nasir Hossain scored a maximum of 24 runs with the bat. Through this, he scored 366 runs in 12 matches at an average of 45.75 and ended this season of BPL brilliantly. Soumya Sarkar scored 21 runs. Besides, Nahiduzzaman scored 18 runs and Alex Blake scored 13 runs.

Kurtis Kampfer took 3 wickets with 15 runs in 4 overs with the ball. Ziaur Rahman also took 2 wickets with 15 runs. And Mritunjoy Chowdhury took 2 wickets for 29 runs. Chittagong’s experienced all-rounder Ziaur Rahman was a man of the match with 34 wickets with the bat and 2 wickets with the ball.

In the 34th match of the ninth season of Bangladesh Premier League (BPL), Rangpur Riders vs Dhaka Dominators will face each other on Friday evening. Rangpur will then face Sylhet, Chittagong, and Comilla.

Nasir Hossain’s Dhaka Dominators, Tamim Iqbal’s Khulna Tigers, and Chittagong Challengers are looking at these four matches in Rangpur.
If Rangpur wins Friday evening’s match, they will secure a playoff spot along with Sylhet Strikers, Fortune Barisal, and Comilla Victorians.

And if they lose, Dhaka, Chittagong, and Khulna will have the chance to play in the playoffs as the fourth team. Rangpur Riders are staying for this spot.

Khulna Tigers is the sixth team with 2 wins in 9 matches and 4 points. Chittagong Challengers are in seventh position behind net run rate with 4 points in equal matches. Dhaka Dominators have played one more match and collected 6 points from 3 wins. All these three teams have a chance to play in the playoffs as the fourth team.

In that case, Rangpur will have to lose all the matches. And the rest have to win all their matches to keep their chances alive.
But Rangpur can change all the equations. Among the remaining teams in the race for the playoffs, Rangpur Riders already have 10 points. They still have four matches left.

Rangpur will qualify for the playoffs if they win one match. Because none of the remaining teams are likely to get 12 points. As a result, if Rangpur wins on Friday, the matches of the remaining three teams will become unimportant. Then the teams in the top four will fight to retain the best position.

There was no challenging capital on the scoreboard. Shakib Al Hasan’s Fortune Barisal had to pay for that. After excellent bowling, Dhaka Dominators blew away Shakib with great batting. On the last day of the Sylhet phase, Barisal won the toss and went into bat, scoring 156 runs for 8 wickets. Chasing the run, Dhaka left the field with a 5-wicket win with 7 balls in hand.

With this victory, Dhaka has risen from the bottom of the points table to fifth place in the points table by collecting 6 points from 10 matches. On the other hand, Barisal is in second place in the points table after collecting 12 points from 9 matches. Mohammad Mithun-Soumya Sarkar’s opening partnership of 74 runs laid the foundation for the win. Soumya got out after playing a stormy inning of 37 runs off 22 balls with 4 fours and 2 sixes but Mithun made his fifty.

He scored a maximum of 54 runs off 36 balls from his bat. His innings consisted of 6 fours and 3 sixes. Nasir scored 20 runs and left the field winning the team. Apart from this, Abdullah Al Mamun scored 26 runs and Alex Blake scored 15 runs. Shakib and Sanjamul took the maximum of 2 wickets each for Barisal. Earlier, Barisal’s run rate decreased after losing a few doors after coming down to bat.

Fortune Barisal overcame the shock with Mahmud Ullah’s cameo at the end after Enamul Haque Vijay’s maximum run. The target is 157 runs. Barisal scored 42 runs without losing any wickets in the power play. Barisal lost their first wicket two balls after the end of the power play. Then 4 wickets for 66 runs. Barisal had no less difficulty in handling this shock. Enamul Haque Vijay departed after scoring 42 runs in the innings. After losing the fifth wicket for 92 runs, Mahmudullah and Salman Hossain continued to increase the score by batting. Their run in 17 overs is 111 for 5 doors. There was apprehension about the challenging score raising. But the storm came in the next two overs. Salman and Mahmudullah picked up 19 runs off Salman Irshad in the 18th over. In the next over, Mahmudullah was out after hitting the fourth four. His innings of 39 from 27 balls also had two sixes. However, Karim raised a storm as soon as Janat came down. Shariful hit Islam with two sixes and a four in three consecutive balls. 20 runs came in the 19th over. Salman returned with 14 runs off 12 balls in the first ball of the last over. Mohammad Wasim and Karim could not capitalize on the remaining five balls, only 6 runs came in that over for another wicket. Karim was run out in the last ball, he scored 17 runs in 5 balls at a strike rate of 340. There were 1 four and 2 sixes in the innings.

After a one-day break in Sylhet, the BPL is back on the field. Rangpur Riders won the toss and decided to bowl against Dhaka Dominators in the first match of the day. Dhaka has no option but to win against Rangpur to survive this year’s BPL. Even though they still stay on paper, even if they do not win the remaining match by a significant margin, the team at the bottom of the table will have to leave the tournament first. Meanwhile, there is no relief in the current BPL in the Rangpur Riders camp. The search for the best XI is still going on in the procession of foreign cricketers. Nurul Hasan’s team is number four in the table with 4 wins.

Rangpur Riders XI: Mohammad Naeem, Rony Talukder, Mahedi Hasan, Shoaib Malik, Azmatullah Omarzai, Mohammad Nawaz, Shamim Hossain, Nurul Hasan Sohan (captain), Rakibul Hasan, Haris Rauf, Hasan Mahmood.

Dhaka Dominators XI: Soumya Sarkar, Mizanur Rahman, Usman Ghani, Mohammad Mithun, Alex Blake, Nasir Hussain (captain), Ariful Haque, Taskin Ahmed, Al-Amin Hussain, Salman Irshad, Zubair Hussain.

Mushfiqur Rahim and Mahmudullah Riyad also got the team in the first call.

All three are ‘A’ category cricketers. The base price of this category of cricketers is Tk 80 lakh. Sylhet Strikers have taken Mushfiqur Rahim in the team in their first chance. And Fortune Barisal has taken the experienced Mahmudullah. Besides, Sheikh Mehedi Hasan of Rangpur Riders. Chattogram Challengers took Mrityunjay Chowdhury on the team. Mohammad Mithun was picked by Dhaka Dominators, while Khulna Tigers took Mohammad Saifuddin.

Yasir Ali in Khulna, Nazmud Hossain Shanto in Sylhet, Mehedi Hasan Miraz in Barisal, Shuvagata Hom Chowdhury in Chattogram, Mosaddek Hossain Saikat in Cumilla and Hasan Mahmud in Rangpur. Dhaka Dominators have taken soumya sarkar.

Sabbir Rahman and Nasir Hossain got the team in the BPL Players Draft on Wednesday.

Khulna Tigers have picked Sabbir Rahman from the draft. So far, the team has taken Tamim Iqbal, Avishka Fernando, Wahab Riaz, Naseem Shah, and Azam Khan indirect contracts. Mohammad Saifuddin, Yasir Ali Chowdhury, Nasum Ahmed, Nahidul Islam, Munim Shahriar, and Sabbir Rahman have been selected from the draft.

On the other hand, Nasir Hossain has been picked up by Dhaka Dominators. So far, the team has taken Taskin Ahmed, Chamika Karunaratne, and Dilshan Munawara indirect contracts. Mohammad Mithun, Soumya Sarkar, Shariful Islam, Arafat Sunny, Nasir Hossain, and Al-Amin Hossain Sr. have been taken from the draft.