2024-02-13 15:35:16
Al Amin blasted Moeen Ali down the wicket. Caught on the boundary line by Will Jacks. With this, the catch of the fifth batter of Chittagong Challengers was caught by Jacks. Jax himself was gesticulating with his hands, and smiling. However, getting life in zero runs, this Jacks made a century and made the Comilla Victorians a mountain of capital.
Al Amin’s catch by Jacks increases Moeen Ali’s chances of a hat-trick. Bilal Khan goes bold and makes it true. This British all-rounder, who came to Chittagong at night, came down to the field in the afternoon and made a stormy fifty with the bat and a hat trick with the ball! Along with the whirlwind magic of leg-spinner Rishad Hossain, who came down to play first. That’s why Chittagong is bad. Liton Das’ team left the field with a big victory of 73 runs.
After losing the toss and going into bat, Comilla scored a maximum of 239 runs, relying on Jaques’s century. Rangpur Riders have this feat before in BPL. Chittagong could not score more than 166 runs despite a great start to chase. The franchise lost all wickets in 16.3 overs.
After winning the toss, the fielding decision pushed Chittagong to the back foot. Although the run was buried in the hills, the beginning was promising. The Tanjeed Tamim-Joss Brown partnership scored 80 runs in just 7.3 overs. Tanjeed got out with 36 runs off 23 balls and the fall started. Brown also returned with a gap of 10 runs. He scored 41 runs off 24 balls.
The Chittagong camp was hit by the whirlwind of Rishad who came out to play first. After Brown, Tom Bruce (11), Shahadat Hossain Dipud (12) broke Chittagong’s batting backbone. Saikat Ali came back to life. He gave a glimpse of the storm by scoring 36 runs off just 11 balls. After being victimized by Moeen Ali, he returned to Chittagong and could only have 2 overs at the crease. Moeen took the second hat-trick in the ongoing BPL. The first hat-trick is in the possession of Shariful. Rishad took maximum 4 wickets with 22 runs in 4 overs.
Before this, Comilla’s scoreboard swelled with Jax’s century in Chittagong’s catch miss exercise and Liton-Moin’s stormy century. Jacks scored a century off just 50 balls. 1st in BPL, 3rd overall. Jacques was unbeaten on 108 runs.
Moeen Ali batted for the first time. The English all-rounder scored 53 runs off just 24 balls. Comilla Victorians scored 239 for 3 against Chittagong Challengers in their last match. Moeen Ali finished the innings of 53 runs with 2 fours and 5 sixes. He was also undefeated with Jacks.
Besides, captain Lytton scored 60 runs off 31 balls with 9 fours and 3 sixes. Tawheed Hriday got the golden duck on the day of the team’s run festival. Besides, Brook Guest’s innings stopped at 10 runs. In the beginning, Liton and Jacks’ 47-ball 86-run partnership gave Comilla a great start. In the end Jacks and Moeen Ali scored 128 runs off 53 balls.
Al-Amin made a bad record with the ball for Chittagong. He scored 69 runs in 4 overs and became the most prolific bowler in BPL. Shahidul Islam took maximum 2 wickets.