Sylhet Strikers, who played the final in the last season, woke up a little late. They won their 6th match after five consecutive losses. Sylhet ended the tenth season of BPL by defeating Khulna Tigers by 6 wickets on Friday (February 23). The team left the 6th place in the points table with 10 points in 12 matches.
Khulna-Sylhet match at Mirpur Shere Bangla Stadium was only a formality. The situation of the two teams was opposite in the whole tournament. Khulna Tigers were at the top of the points table after winning four matches in a row. On the other hand, Sylhet was at the bottom of the points table after five consecutive losses. However, the two teams finally reached a coexistence. Although Khulna is fifth with 10 points, Sylhet is at number six behind in run rate.
Khulna gave Sylhet a target of 129 runs by batting earlier on Friday. This easy target was achieved by the last runners-up losing 4 wickets before 12 balls.
Sylhet lost two openers Kenner Lewis (5) and Zakir Hasan (0) by 129 runs. The pair of Nazmul Hossain Shanto and Yasir Ali, who failed in the entire tournament, brought the team back to the match after losing two wickets for 6 runs. In the third wicket these two added 70 runs on the scoreboard. Shanta who was playing brilliantly scored 39 runs and Yasir was out for 46 runs. Mohammad Mithun (19) and Benny Howell (12) covered the rest of the way with ease.
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Among the Khulna bowlers, Arif Ahmed, Nahidul Islam, Jason Holder and Wayne Parnell took one wicket each.
Earlier Khulna Tigers got invited to bat after losing the toss. But even today their batting order failed. Afif Hossain, who got a chance to open on this day, was only able to resist. Afif played an innings of 52 runs off 35 balls with 3 fours and 4 sixes. Among the rest of the batters, Wayne Parnell’s innings of 21 runs came from his bat. In the end, Khulna lost 8 wickets and scored 128 runs.
Among the Sylhet bowlers, Benny Howell took three wickets at the cost of 15 runs. Besides, Shafiqul Islam, Tanjid Hasan Tamim took two wickets each. Samit Patel took a wicket.
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