2024-02-11 15:03:24
He came, he saw, he conquered. Two of Rangpur’s three new foreign cricketers arrived in Dhaka last night. Another person came before them. This trio made their debut together today. He also made an important contribution to the field. The day became colorful for Rangpur Riders. They beat Chittagong Challengers by 53 runs.
Jimmy Neesham, Imran Tahir and Reza Hendricks came to the BPL for the first time. They are brilliant in their debut. Jimmy Neesham is the hero of the team with an all-round performance. He got 2 wickets for 32 runs with the ball after 51 runs off 26 balls. Hendricks scored 58 runs off 41 balls. In addition, Imran Tahir pocketed 1 wicket for 28 runs.
In their burning match, Rangpur won the toss and went into bat, losing 3 wickets in the scheduled 20 overs and scoring 211 runs. In response, Chittagong Challengers could not score more than 158 runs for 6 wickets in 20 overs. Nurul Hasan Sohan’s team strengthened their position in the points table by winning by 53 runs. This is their sixth win in eight matches.
Neesham got a quick run but took time to settle in the beginning. He also got luck on his side. He has to play 10 balls to get the first boundary. Of course, he could have gone back. Al-Amin caught the ball. Bilal Khan took a simple catch on the boundary to give life to Neesham. After getting life for 9 runs, he was unstoppable.
Al-Amin’s next low fouls ball hits the boundary in the blink of an eye. One ball after another four by sending the ball to long off. The 19th over started with a six. The left-handed batsman sent Al Amin’s half volley to the boundary in the blink of an eye. Then in the last over, his bat stormed. Bilal Khan got a six and a four off the second and third balls. And hit a six on the last ball to get a fifty. And in his innings of 51 runs from 26 balls, the team got a huge capital of 211 runs. Which is the first team to cross two hundred innings in this year’s BPL.
Neesham hit 5 fours and 3 sixes in the innings with a strike rate of 196.15. Sohan’s 21-ball innings of 31 runs was hidden by Neesham’s storm. Where the captain of Rangpur got 1 six with 2 fours.
However, it was clear from the beginning of the innings that Rangpur was chasing something big. The two openers Rony Talukder and Reza Hendricks were on fire from the start. In the power play, the duo’s run reached 52. Nihaduzzaman broke the pair in the seventh over. Ronnie got out with 24 runs off 17 balls with 3 fours and 1 six. Down to three, Shakib continued the attack. Hendrix was brilliant too. In 26 balls, their pair’s runs reached fifty.
At this time, Hendricks took his first fifty in BPL. He scored 58 runs off 41 balls with 5 fours and 3 sixes. Shakib played a stormy innings of 27 runs off 16 balls with 3 fours and 1 six. In the 13th over, these two batsmen were returned by pacer Salahuddin Shakeel. Shakib took the catch behind the wicket while picking up his short ball. Hendricks was palmed by Joss Brown at deep cover. From there, Sohan and Nisham’s 46-ball 89-run partnership became unfathomable for Chittagong.
Chasing a huge goal, Chittagong had a rough start. 49 runs in the first 10 overs with the loss of 2 wickets. They scored 109 runs in the next 10 overs. Saikat Ali, who initially drowned the team, later rescued himself. Saikat did not get any boundaries in the first 11 overs. At this time only 17 runs came from his bat in 29 balls. His slow batting initially led the team behind which Chittagong could not overcome.
63 runs came from Saikat’s bat in 45 balls until he was run out while taking two runs with skipper Shubhagat home. The right-handed batsman hit 6 sixes alongside 1 four. In the middle, Kurtis Camper scored 24 off 21 balls and at the end Shubhagat Home scored 31 off 13 balls to reduce the margin of Chittagong’s defeat. Shakib got 2 wickets for 24 runs with the ball after a stormy batting.