2024-02-10 20:47:21
Two balls dot after a couple of sixes in the slugsweep to Saif Hasan. Playing the same shot, Saif’s quicker delivery takes Tawheed right at his heart’s feet. Devastated Saif asked for a review without applying for LBW! The umpire was waiting for the captain’s green signal. Taskin Ahmed standing at mid-off canceled the review.
Tawheed, who failed in two attempts in a row, hit it outside the boundary in the third attempt. Not only Saif, Tawheed smashed Taskin-Shariful to get the first century in recognized T20. And the team Comilla Victorians got a thrilling win by four wickets.
This young Turk of Comilla Victorians rained sixes at the Mirpur Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium against the great Dhaka. The way he came down the wicket and hit Taskin at long off will be etched in the memory of cricket fans for a long time. After a 53-ball century, this Taskin flicked a great six on the previous shot! Tawheed’s maiden century in a recognized T20I is the first by any batsman in the ongoing BPL.
With such brave batting, Dhaka’s target of 176 runs was easily reached by the Victorians camp. Dhaka won the toss and went into bat, scoring a challenging score of 175 runs. Tawheed played an innings of 108 runs from 57 balls and was unbeaten. 7 sixes and 8 fours arranged the eye-catching innings.
Last time this Tawheed played for the runners-up Sylhet Strikers. The third highest score of 403 caught the eye. Made it to the national team. It is said that Mohammad Salahuddin is not mistaken in recognizing Ratan. The head coach of the franchise took himself to the camp before the draft by spending more than crores of rupees.
Taskin-Shariful of Dhaka danced by Tawheed. At times he was accompanied by Brooke Guest. 84 runs from 69 balls came from the pair of the two. This pair was broken when the guests returned to Sajghar after scoring 34 runs off 35 balls. When the guest returns, Reifer comes back quickly (6). After that Zaker Ali took the team to the port of victory with Tawheed of crores of rupees.
Chasing the target, Comilla defeated Liton Kumar Das by 9 runs. After that, another opener, Will Jacques, and Imrul Kayes, who returned from injury, were under pressure after a gap of 14 runs. But Tawheed blasted away that pressure. Shariful took maximum 2 wickets for Dhaka. Taskin was in Khruche. No wicket was seen with 45 runs.
Earlier, Dhaka had sent Chaturanga de Silva as a pinch hitter in the opening. He could not do very well. His innings stopped at 14 runs off 13 balls with 3 boundaries. Saif Hasan and Naeem Sheikh pulled the team from there. Both were taking some time in the beginning. But after settling down, he made quick runs in every attack. Their pair reach fifty runs in 34 balls. Reached the century off 68 balls.
In the 17th over, Saif and Naeem started the over by bowling a six, but Comilla’s Caribbean bowler Ford returned Saif and Naeem in the same over. Saif took the catch at long on while flying the short ball. Naeem was hit out. Saif Hasan scored 57 runs off 42 balls with 4 fours and 3 sixes. Naeem Sheikh scored the highest 64 runs in 45 balls. The left-handed opener hit 9 fours and 1 six. After that, the pace of runs decreased. Still try Ross and Mehrab. Ross scored 21 runs off 11 balls. Mehrab scored 11 runs off 8 balls.
Comilla’s best bowler Ford took 3 wickets for 35 runs. Alis Islam got 1 wicket. Mostafiz was pale. He gave 33 runs in 2 overs.