An eye-catching, heart-filling, devastating innings. Unbeaten 108 runs off 57 balls with 8 fours and 7 sixes. Such an innings came out of the willow of a Bangladeshi batter, one can imagine!
Tawhid Hridiya played the best innings of his career today (Friday). He brought a great victory to the team Comilla Victorians in his first T20 century. Chasing the challenging target of 176 runs, Comilla defeated the great Dhaka with 4 wickets and 1 ball in hand.
This is Comilla’s fifth win in seven matches. Dhaka’s seventh consecutive loss in the eighth match.
However, the Comilla camp was looking dark in the eyes, losing 3 wickets for 23 runs in the run chase. Skipper Liton Das returned early. He was trapped LBW by Shariful Islam for 8 off 5 balls. Will Jacks was run out (5 off 9).
Shariful spelled Imrul Kayes (1) as his second victim. Comilla was cornered by losing 3 wickets for 23 runs. From there, Tawhid Hriday and Brooke Guest scored 84 runs off 69 balls. Heart is the main contribution in this pair. Brooke made 34 off 35 balls.
After that, the heart single-handedly took out the match. After scoring a 53-ball century, the right-handed batsman left the field after winning the team. Hriday became the sixth Bangladeshi batsman to score a century in BPL.
Earlier, Naeem Sheikh and Saif Hasan’s pair of fifties gave Dhaka a challenging collection of 175 runs for 4 wickets.
After winning the toss and choosing to bat, they lost Chaturanga De Silva (14 off 13), but then Dhaka got the foundation of a challenging collection in the great pair of Naeem Sheikh and Saif Hasan.
Naim and Saif added 119 runs off 78 balls for the second wicket. Both made fifty. Naim scored 64 off 45 balls with 9 fours and 1 six. Saif’s innings of 57 runs from 42 balls included 4 boundaries and 3 sixes.
In the end, Alex Ross scored an unbeaten 21 off 11 balls. SM Mehrab remained unbeaten on 11 runs off 8 balls.
Matthew Ford of Comilla took 3 wickets at the cost of 35 runs. Alis Al Islam took one wicket with 29 runs in 4 overs.
When Mostafizur Rahman spent 33 runs in two overs, the captain did not dare to fulfill his quota.
MMR/MKR
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