It was expected to be a great bowling battle in the second match of the day in the BPL today at the Mirpur Sherebangla Stadium. Rangpur Riders-Sylhet Strikers will also have a fight. Rangpur's Nahid Rana-Mohammed Saifuddin against Sylhet's Tanzim Hasan Shakib-Rich Toplid. A very effective bowling attack from both the teams. But Nahid Rana's cannon made the difference in the match. Sylhet's batting order has been destroyed by the storm of speed. Rangpur won by 34 runs despite throwing a small target to Sylhet.
Rangpur top the table with full 4 points after their second win in a row. If there is dew on the night, the team winning the toss usually decides to bowl first. But here too, Rangpur captain Nurul Hasan Sohan has shown a leadership skill. Today, due to special reasons, the evening match was brought forward by one and a half hours. Seeing the wickets used, Sohan also assumed that, batting first and putting up a score of around one and a half hundred, it would not be easy for the opposition to chase.
There will be less dew later in the evening, spinners bowling a little faster, pacers skidding in the dew should not be too much of a problem. If Sohan is thinking like this, then the match with the thought is also suitable. Sylhet restricted Rangpur to 155 runs thanks to the excellent bowling of Shakib-Al Amin Hossain. But chasing the target of 156 runs, Rangpur stopped Sylhet at 121 runs for 9 wickets.
Sylhet opener Rony Talukder scored 41 runs off 36 balls. They kept losing wickets at regular intervals from the beginning. Zaker Ali scored 24 runs off 33 balls in the team's disaster. And 18 runs from 21 balls came from the bat of Zakir Hasan. Rangpur's bowlers did not allow them to form any big pair. Nahid was wicketless despite bowling brilliantly against Dhaka Capitals in the previous match. But today he made up for it with 4 wickets for 27 runs. Khushdil Shah took 2 wickets with 10 runs in 4 overs. Mohammad Saifuddin's victim is also 2 wickets.
Earlier, Rangpur scored 155 runs courtesy of Iftikhar Ahmed-Sohan's effective innings. It started with a batting disaster – they lost three top order for 28 runs. A solid middle order saw Pero score a hundred and a half. Iftikhar remained unbeaten on 47 runs off 42 balls. Sohan played an innings of 41 runs off 24 balls. Khushdil scored 21 off 16 balls and Mehdi scored 16 off 8 balls. Tanzim Shakib and Al Amin both took two wickets each. Rangpur's Nahid Rana won the Man of the Match award by bowling brilliantly.
