END OF OVER:
20 | 10 Runs 1 Wkt | SYS: 171/8 (41 runs required, RR: 8.55)

  • Kamrul Islam4 (5b)
  • Taskin Ahmed4-0-31-3
  • Subashis Roy2-0-30-0

This has been among the BPL's highest-scoring matches this year. That's been a rarity, with sluggish pitches being the flavour of the season. For large parts of the chase, this match promised to be a lot more exciting and a lot tighter, but that wasn't to be. On that note, I take your leave. We hope you had fun on this night of six-hitting. Be back for more tomorrow. Goodbye and goodnight!

10.33pm How quickly a match can turn around? Sylhet looked like they would chase this down at the end of the Powerplay. At the halfway mark, they were still well on course. And then things went horribly wrong. They lost their two set batsmen, Andre Fletcher and Babar Azam, in successive overs, and from there unravelled pretty rapidly. There were no other heroes for them on this night. And at long last, Chittagong get another win, a well-deserved one achieved on the back of a power-packed career-best effort from Sikandar Raza. He played one of the finest T20 innings I have seen in recent times. Sylhet need to brush off this defeat and get back on track quickly as the race to the playoffs gets tighter.

"We have three matches to go, and I will look to win those matches," says Nasir Hossain, Sylhet captain.

"The batters just put up a terrific performance," says Chittagong captain Luke Ronchi. "Sikandar Raza was unfortunate to miss out on a hundred but that was an unbelievable innings. The middle period was crucial for us as Sylhet lost their way a little bit. The spinners did a fantastic job. We tried to change it up so they wouldn't get a rhythm going. We just need to keep playing like we did tonight and pick up as many wins as possible."

Sikandar Raza is Man of the Match. "I wasn't disappointed with whenever I got out. Every time I go out to bat, I try and do my best for my team and play the way the situation needs me to and today was no different," he says. "Staan van Zyl batted outstandingly and he wasin fact the reason we got that partnership going. I certainly surprised myself with some of the shots I played. It's just one of those things, when it comes together it comes together. Whatever the situation and whenever you want me to go out there, I try to do my best. There are few things that are not in my control, but I just try to play as honestly as I can."

19.6
W
Taskin Ahmed to Nurul Hasan, OUT, short ball, swivels around and pulls straight into the hands of deep square leg

Nurul Hasan c Reece b Taskin Ahmed 28 (16b 1x4 2x6) SR: 175.00

19.5
1
Taskin Ahmed to Kamrul Islam Rabbi, 1 run, low full toss, driven with an open face to backward point
19.4
1
Taskin Ahmed to Nurul Hasan, 1 run, short of a length, angled into him, he backs away and opens the face to deep backward point
19.3
6
Taskin Ahmed to Nurul Hasan, SIX, full toss outside off, walks across to get behind the line before heaving it over deep midwicket
19.2
1
Taskin Ahmed to Kamrul Islam Rabbi, 1 run, short ball, pulled to midwicket for a very tight single. Direct hit would have made it a lot closer
19.1
1
Taskin Ahmed to Nurul Hasan, 1 run, length ball outside off, throws hard hands at a cross-batted shot and gets an inside edge to deep fine leg

END OF OVER:
19 | 13 Runs | SYS: 161/7 (51 runs required from 6 balls, RR: 8.47, RRR: 51.00)

  • Nurul Hasan20 (12b)
  • Kamrul Islam2 (3b)
  • Subashis Roy2-0-30-0
  • Taskin Ahmed3-0-21-2
18.6
1
Subashis Roy to Nurul Hasan, 1 run, comes down the track to a fuller ball and does not middle it as he drills to the off side
18.5
6
Subashis Roy to Nurul Hasan, SIX, low full toss outside off, hammered with a half-angled bat straight over
18.4
1
Subashis Roy to Kamrul Islam Rabbi, 1 run, throws hard hands as he looks to work it to the leg side and gets an inside edge that gets past the keeper. It was a yorker outside off and he jammed the bat down hard into the turn. The ball gets past the keeper who gets down to his left

Even that won't do now.

18.3
0
Subashis Roy to Kamrul Islam Rabbi, no run, full, wide, reaches out without moving his feet and gets beaten

Sylhet need a six off every ball now.

18.2
1
Subashis Roy to Nurul Hasan, 1 run, reaches out to a full ball outside off and drives to extra cover who dives to his left and stops it
18.1
4
Subashis Roy to Nurul Hasan, FOUR, full toss outside off, tries to heave it over the leg side and skews a leading edge off the toe end through third man

END OF OVER:
18 | 6 Runs 1 Wkt | SYS: 148/7 (64 runs required from 12 balls, RR: 8.22, RRR: 32.00)

  • Nurul Hasan8 (8b)
  • Kamrul Islam1 (1b)
  • Taskin Ahmed3-0-21-2
  • Stiaan van Zyl2-0-14-2
17.6
1
Taskin Ahmed to Nurul Hasan, 1 run, comes down the track to a full toss and drills it to long-on
17.5
0
Taskin Ahmed to Nurul Hasan, no run, slower fullish ball outside off, beaten
17.4
2
Taskin Ahmed to Nurul Hasan, 2 runs, very full ball outside off, tries to heave it over the leg side and skews it off the inside part of the bat to deep backward square leg
17.3
1
Taskin Ahmed to Kamrul Islam Rabbi, 1 run, yorker outside off, dug out down to long-on
17.2
W
Taskin Ahmed to Nasir Hossain, OUT, that is quite literally catching practice. Felt that way in everything he did with that shot. Taskin bowls it shortish outside off and he just opens the face to gently glide it into the hands of the gully fielder as if that was his intention all along

Nasir Hossain c Subashis Roy b Taskin Ahmed 8 (4b 0x4 1x6) SR: 200.00

17.2
1w
Taskin Ahmed to Nasir Hossain, 1 wide, short ball, drifting down the leg side, over the arched back of the batsman
17.1
1
Taskin Ahmed to Nurul Hasan, 1 run, extremely full on the stumps, squeezed out to midwicket

END OF OVER:
17 | 11 Runs | SYS: 142/6 (70 runs required from 18 balls, RR: 8.35, RRR: 23.33)

  • Nurul Hasan4 (4b)
  • Nasir Hossain8 (3b)
  • Stiaan van Zyl2-0-14-2
  • Soumya Sarkar3-0-17-2
16.6
1
van Zyl to Nurul Hasan, 1 run, blitzes a length ball wide of long-on ho gets around it
16.5
1
van Zyl to Nasir Hossain, 1 run, slower ball yorker on middle and leg, dug out to the cover and point region
16.4
1
van Zyl to Nurul Hasan, 1 run, low full toss, pushed down to long-on
16.3
1
van Zyl to Nasir Hossain, 1 run, length ball, flicked to short fine leg
16.2
6
van Zyl to Nasir Hossain, SIX, comes down the track to meet the pitch before lofting it over long-off. The ball just lands past the cameraman who's facing towards the dugout

Sylhet 2nd innings Partnerships

WktRunsPlayers
1st43ADS FletcherMD Gunathilaka
2nd80ADS FletcherBabar Azam
3rd5Babar AzamSabbir Rahman
4th1TT BresnanSabbir Rahman
5th1TT BresnanAbul Hasan
6th1TT BresnanNurul Hasan
7th13Nasir HossainNurul Hasan
8th27Kamrul Islam RabbiNurul Hasan

Bangladesh Premier League

TeamMWLPTNRR
CV1293180.578
DHD1274151.631
KT1274150.075
RR126612-0.267
SYS12479-0.429
RR12488-1.098
CC12387-0.473
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