2024-02-15 05:27:35
The great Dhaka entered the Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) with the slogan “If Dhaka can win”. The team raised expectations after starting the tournament with a win. It wasn’t too late to deflate the balloon of expectation. Even after 10 matches, their victory is this one!
As usual on Wednesday, Tamim Iqbal-Mohammed Saif Uddin’s bright match saw Dhaka’s batsmen coming and going. The team’s batting faded even on the run festival wicket of Zahoor Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium. Fortune went down to play Barisal’s target of 187 runs and lost 5 wickets for 50 runs. Nobody’s bat spoke except for one Alex Ross. In the end the team stopped at 159 runs. Tamim Iqbal’s Barisal strengthened their position in the race for the last four by winning by 27 runs. This is the team’s fifth win in the ninth match.
Ross scored the maximum 89 runs for Dhaka. More than half of Dhaka’s runs came from his bat. This Australian batsman was unbeaten with 5 fours and 7 sixes in just 49 balls. The second highest 12 runs came from the bat of Shaun Williams.
10 runs came from the bat of Naeem Sheikh-Taskin Ahmed. No other batter faced double-digit home runs. Khaled Ahmed and Saifuddin took maximum 3 wickets each for Barisal.
In the first over, when Mosaddek Hossain’s short delivery went to pull, Tamim Iqbal lost the bat. Fortune Barisal skipper survived without being punched. Tamim got off to a shaky start, only 6 runs off 13 balls.
Arafat Sunny started the storm with two fours and sixes in the fifth over. A 34-ball fifty was seen in stormy batting. In the end, 71 runs from 45 balls came from his bat. Tamim scored this run with 7 fours and 4 sixes. Another opener Ahmed Shehzad scored 24 runs off 22 balls.
Barisal’s run rate slowed after Tamim’s dismissal. Soumya Sarkar could not play a long innings despite settling in between. 28 runs from 23 balls came from his bat. Mahmudullah returned home with 13 runs off 10 balls. Mushfiqur Rahim scored 1 run but Mehdi Hasan Miraj could not open the account.
In the last over, Mohammad Saifuddin scored 23 runs with two fours and sixes in just 6 balls. Barisal got a challenging score. Alauddin Babu took maximum 3 wickets for Dhaka. Taskin Ahmed took 2 wickets.