‌BPL 2024 | Mustafizur-Kayes overpowers Barishal to steer Victorians to maiden triumph in Dhaka

‌BPL 2024 | Mustafizur-Kayes overpowers Barishal to steer Victorians to maiden triumph in Dhaka

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By SportsCafe Desk, SportsCafe Editor

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Mushfiqur Rahim’s second fifty in as many games went in vain as Fortune Barishal ended up on the losing side against Comilla Victorians. Mustafizur Rahman was instrumental with the ball while Imrul Kayes’ fifty paved the way for cameos from Khusdil Shah and Matt Forde that sealed the deal in Dhaka.

Arriving on the back of a loss in their previous game, Fortune Barishal did not get the desired start as Mehidy Hasan Miraz departed for a golden duck when Tanvir Islam outwitted him in the first over. They lost a couple more wickets inside the powerplay as Pritom Kumar and Tamim Iqbal failed to establish themselves leaving the side 44/3 at the end of powerplay. The ball was in the court of the toss-winning side but Mushfiqur Rahman and Soumya Sarkar hustled hard to bring back a fortune in their favour. The pair orchestrated 66 runs together for the fourth wicket with both batters smacking a couple of sixes each. While Sarkar failed to reach his fifty by just eight runs, Rahim switched gears and propelled the tally to 161/9 despite the fall of wickets in clusters from the other end. 

In reply, Litton Das and Mohammed Rizwan gave a brisk start of 26 runs before Dunith Wellalage extracted two wickets on consecutive deliveries in the fourth over. Imrul Kayes entered the fray and added 30 runs for the third wicket with Litton before the skipper was removed by Khaled Ahmed in the ninth over. Wickets fell in periodic intervals during the middle overs phase as Abbas Afridi and Wellalage found ways to peg back at the Victorians leaving them at 116/5 after 16.3 overs. Subsequently, Jaker Ali and Khusdil Shah contributed 33 runs for the sixth wicket before the Pakistan cricketer got into a run-out, courtesy of an underarm throw from Mushfiqur in the final over. With 13 runs needed from the ultimate five balls, Matt Forde extracted a couple in the second delivery and eventually whooped a six and a four to level the scores. Eventually, the West Indies all-rounder hit the winning runs and helped the Victorians get off the mark in the tourney.

The Twitterverse closely followed this game and here's how they reacted.

What a consistency from him!

He's such a class to watch!

Gotta appreciate his knock!

He did it!🔥🔥

Comilla won it!

That's called typical West Indian!

He was not in the books!

Yupe!🔥

Yes he is!

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