Barisal beats Chittagong and reach final.
Fortune Barisal has blown away Chittagong Kings in the Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) with the stormy batting of Tawhid Hridoy. Tamim Iqbal’s team has reached the final of the tournament with a huge win of 9 wickets. However, even if they lose, Chittagong’s journey is not over yet. They will face Khulna Tigers in the second qualifier. If they can win there, they will make it to the final.
The two teams will face each other today, Monday, at the Sher-e-Bangla Cricket Stadium in Mirpur. The game starts at 6:30 pm Bangladesh time. Where, thanks to a great innings by Shamim Hossain, Chittagong Kings, who batted first in the first qualifier, scored 149 runs for the loss of 9 wickets at the end of the stipulated overs. In reply, Barisal, who came out to bat, reached the port of victory with the loss of one wicket and 16 balls remaining.
Where Barisal captain Tamim Iqbal won the toss and decided to field.
Chittagong did not start well at all. They were even in danger after losing 4 wickets for 34 runs. However, Shamim scored 77 runs off 50 balls with Parvez Hossain Emon in the fifth wicket partnership. Emon was dismissed for 36 runs off 36 balls. But despite being dismissed by Shamim Ali, who batted brilliantly, he scored 79 runs off 47 balls with 9 fours and 4 sixes.
Mohammad Ali bowled in the team’s 19th over. He returned Khaled Ahmed with the first ball. Arafat Sunny changed the end with a run on the next ball. This time, Inform dismissed Shamim Hossain with the third ball. Shariful Islam took a run on the next ball. And in the last two balls, this Pakistani pacer dismissed Sunny and Alish Al Islam respectively. He took 4 wickets in one over and 5 wickets for 24 runs in a spell of 4 overs.
Ali took 4 wickets and Kyle Meyers took 2 wickets among the Barisal bowlers.
In reply, captain Tamim and Hridoy put in to bat and scored 55 runs in 8.4 overs. In the ninth over, Tamim was dismissed for 29 runs off Khaled Ahmed. But they did not lose any more wickets after that. Hridoy played an unbeaten innings of 82 runs off 56 balls. His innings included 9 fours and 2 sixes. He also remained unbeaten on 34 runs off 22 balls.
Chittagong will face Khulna Tigers in the second qualifier on February 5. The winner of that match will advance to the final.
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