Fortune Barisal cricketers ran from the dressing room when David Miller hit a boundary with cover. Mahmudullah-Miraj prostrated in gratitude. All the cricketers of the team danced madly. The laser show started immediately. Fireworks flash. The curtain came down on the tenth season of BPL with the celebration of Barisal’s first title.
After a long wait, Barisal brought home the first BPL title. They played the final of the first season in 2012. Then two more times. They became champions in four attempts. Barisal broke Comilla Victorians’ hat-trick title dreams and achieved excellence. In response to Comilla’s 155 runs, Tamim Iqbal’s team confirmed the victory by 6 wickets before 6 balls.
In 2012, Barisal played in the final in the first season of BPL. But with a different name. Barisal has changed ownership three times in the last ten seasons, due to which they have had to play under three different names. Sometimes Barisal Barnes, sometimes Barisal Bulls, now Fortune Barisal. However, even though the ownership has changed, their fate has never changed. In 2015, Barisal Bulls lost the title to Comilla Victorians. After 6 years in 2022 under the leadership of Shakib, Fortune Barisal reached the final. They did not win the title that time. Shakibra was deprived of the title after losing by 1 run to this Comilla in a breathtaking match. However, Tamim’s Barisal did not make a mistake this time. They took home the first title by blowing Comilla away.
On the day of Barisal’s trophy win, many new things began at Mirpur’s 22 yards. Comilla played on Friday with the record of being unbeaten in the final. Barisal took away the trophy by crushing their pride. With this loss, not only Comilla’s feat of being undefeated in the final was lost, but they also had to be deprived of the hat-trick title. On the other hand, everything in Barisal is first. Tamim did what Brad Hodge of Barisal Burnas, Mahmudullah of Barisal Bulls and Shakib Al Hasan of Fortune Barisal could not. They won the BPL title for the first time. Individually, this is Tamim’s second title in the competition, while Mushfiq and Mahmudullah’s first.
Thrill-madness among the audience for two days around the final of the tenth season of BPL. The situation with tickets is urgent. Mirpur Shere Bangla Stadium with a capacity of 25,000 spectators. The entire stadium was packed to the brim, with at least 10,000 more spectators standing in the gallery to enjoy the thrilling final match. BCB was even forced to put a chair on the president’s box of the stadium. The organizers arranged for several spectators to sit there. The gallery was in jubilation throughout such an exciting final.
On Friday, Comilla collected 154 runs thanks to Andre Russell’s stormy batting and Mahidul Islam’s responsible innings. The match became easy for Barisal after Tamim-Miraj got off to an easy start. Tamim hit Moeen Ali with a six and two fours in the eighth over. Still, Bould misses the line of the ball while playing the last ball forward. They broke the opening pair of 76 runs. Tamim scored 39 runs off 26 balls with 3 fours and 3 sixes. The country’s best opener ended the tournament by becoming the top run-scorer of the tournament (492) while playing this innings.
After Tamim’s departure, boundaries were not coming for Barisal in two overs. Miraj took advantage of the boundary and departed by catching Charles off Moeen’s ball. Before that, the all-rounder who played as a ‘makeshift opener’ scored 29 runs in 26 balls with 1 four and 2 sixes. After that, Barisal reached the verge of victory by standing on the pair of 59 runs from 42 balls by Kyle Myers and Mushfiqur Rahim in the third wicket. Mushfiqur played slowly but Myers was terrifying. He got out 14 runs short of victory after crushing Comilla’s bowlers. This Caribbean batsman played an innings of 46 runs off 30 balls with 5 fours and 3 sixes. After that Mushfiqur departed for 13 runs off 18 balls and there was some delay in getting the win. Mahmudullah 7 and David Miller remained unbeaten on 8 runs.
After two matches, Mustafiz returned to Comilla’s XI. The left-handed pacer could not play several matches after suffering a head injury. He was the team’s best bowler in the title fight match. He took two wickets for 31 runs. Besides, Moeen took two wickets at the cost of 28 runs.
Barisal captain Tamim won the toss in the last few matches. They won the toss and invited Comilla to bat. Obed McVeigh brought success to Sunil Narine in the first over. After that, four-time champion Comilla kept losing wickets at regular intervals. Captain Liton and Tawheed Hriday have failed in important matches like the final. Liton was out for 16 and Hriday 15 runs. Moeen was run out by Mirage’s great throw.
Meanwhile, Mahidul Islam drew small pairs in the fourth, fifth and sixth wickets. Comilla were 115 when Dhan was out on the fourth ball of the 17th over. Andre Russell stormed off the next 14 balls. However, in the last over, Russell lost Khey in front of the brilliant bowling of Saifuddin. Still, relying on his cameo innings of 27 runs from 14 balls, Comilla scored 154 runs for the loss of 6 wickets. He played the highest innings of 38 runs. Comilla’s wicket keeper batsman completed his innings with 2 fours and 2 sixes in 35 balls.
Barisal’s James Fuller took two wickets for 43 runs. Apart from this, Saifuddin, Myers and McCoy took one wicket each.
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