2024-02-11 07:10:02
Boundary fountains all around. Worry about where the bowlers will hit the ball in 22 yards. Whichever bowler, Mahmudullah or Soumya hits four-sixes, it is a regular sight. On Saturday (February 10), the great Dhaka bowlers were on fire in their batting frenzy.
Two batsmen of Fortune Barisal got a taste of fifty in BPL by raining down four-sixes. Lift the team from the rubble to the top of the run. In making that run, Dhaka lost the match by a huge margin.
Fortune Barisal scored 189 runs for 4 wickets in Mirpur Sher-e-Bangla with Soumya’s 48-ball 75 and Mahmudullah’s 47-ball 73. In response, Dhaka’s innings stopped at 149 runs before 2 balls. Dhaka officially withdrew from BPL as the first team with a loss of 40 runs. They have also accompanied the embarrassing record. Dhaka’s record of 8 losses in BPL is now great. Earlier, Sylhet Royals had lost 7 matches in a row.
Dhaka only won 1 in nine matches. Their failed mission ended 2 matches ago. On the other hand, Barisal tasted victory after one match. They have 4 wins in 8 matches. They lost 4 matches.
At the end of the match, Barisal had a smile on his face, but the beginning was very bad. After winning the toss, Barisal went down to bat. They lost 3 wickets quickly and their run was 19. Captain Tamim (4), Shehzad (10) and Mushfiq (1) quickly returned to the dressing room. Shariful took Tamim’s wicket. Caught at deep mid-wicket. Shehzad caught Taskin’s bouncer at point. Mushfiqur was bowled by pulling the ball to the wicket on an almost identical delivery.
The pressure was on Barisal as they did not get results despite building a good team. Today, the top order’s batting failures put them to a tough test again. But, what Soumya Sarkar and Mahmudullah Riyad did standing in the ruins, is surprising. The team’s scoreboard was messed up by dropping a ‘rain’ of sixes in 22 yards. 10 sixes came in their pair. The pair scored 139 runs off 85 balls. That’s how Barisal got big capital.
Mahmudullah went to the crease and came down the wicket and hit Shariful for a six. The next ball stands in place for a spectacular cover drive. Soumya was also fueled by the confidence of his teammates. Soumya hit Taskin for two fours in the fifth over. At the end of the power play, their run was 46. Not much runs came in the next four overs. Barisal runs 79 at the end of 10 overs.
Barisal’s scoreboard changed after that. The two batsmen added 67 runs in the next 6 overs. At this time sixes fly around the wicket. Four hits spread the fascination. In the batting frenzy of the two, it seemed that Barisal’s run would cross two hundred. But when Shariful Mahmudullah was caught in the 17th over, the run rate slowed down a bit. The left-arm pacer caught the short ball behind the wicket. Mahmudullah played the innings of 73 runs with 7 fours and 4 sixes. At the end of the innings unbeaten Soumya hit 6 sixes with 4 fours. Scored 75. With him unbeaten Shoaib Malik scored 19 runs in 10 balls with 2 fours and 1 six.
Shariful Islam and Taskin got 2 wickets each for Dhaka. Shariful gave 36 runs and Taskin 35 runs.
Chasing a huge target, Dhaka lost 3 wickets to score 41 runs. After Sabbir Hossain, Naeem Sheikh and Saif Hasan got out quickly. Earlier in the day these two batsmen got fifty. The team was looking at their bat today. But, they were knocked out of the match after they failed. Alex Ross only fought for the team. He scored 52 runs off 30 balls with 5 fours and 3 sixes. Besides, Mehrab scored 28 runs off 29 balls. Their runs only narrowed the margin of defeat.
Saif Uddin is the best ball player in Barisal. The right-handed bowler got 3 wickets for 21 runs. Miraj and Obed McCoy took 2 wickets each.