The match between Barisal and Rajshahi was not played on the first day at the main ground of Cox's Bazar. The game started on the second day on Sunday but Barisal scored 205 runs by batting first. After that Rajshahi could get 275 runs on the scoreboard in their first innings. The day's play ended with Barisal scoring 10 runs in 3 overs on Monday afternoon from 70 runs behind. On the fourth and final day on Tuesday, Barisal will go into bat after trailing by 60 runs. The momentum of the match says that the fight between the two teams is moving towards a dull draw.
After Barisal's batting, Rajshahi batted only one over the previous day. Although the top order failed on Monday, Rajshahi scored 275 runs on the bat of Pritam Kumar, who batted in the middle order. Pritam scored 80 runs off 149 balls with 8 fours and 2 sixes. Apart from this, Mehrab Hossain played an innings of 36 runs, YC Siddiqui unbeaten 34 and Nihaduzzaman 33 runs.
Among Barisal's bowlers, Salman Hossain and Ruel Miah took three wickets each. Moeen Khan took two wickets.
Barisal started their second innings trailing by 70 runs. But they could bat only 3 overs in the last afternoon. Their collection stands at 10 without a wicket. Abdul Majeed 8 and previous innings centurion Iftekhar Hossain Ifti are unbeaten on 1 run.
Earlier, Barisal's batsmen could not take advantage of winning the toss and batting. Except for Ifti, no one got that many runs. Based on his innings of 116 runs, Barisal crossed two hundred. Ifti completed his innings with 12 fours and 1 six off 205 balls.
