Match Details
Earlier, after being invited to bat first, the Strikers posted
201 runs for the loss of eight wickets in 20 overs. A swashbuckling inning from
Towhid Hridoy (84 off 46) and ably supported by Najmul Hossain Shanto from the
other end who scored 57 off 39, this duo helped their side to post
a mammoth target of 201-run. On the flip side, Al-Amin Hossain scalped three wickets
for the Dominators, while Taskin Ahmed chipped in with a couple of wickets and
Arafat Sunny and Ariful Haque bagged a solitary wicket a piece each.
While chasing a mammoth target of 201 runs, Dhaka got off to a disastrous start. They lost their first wicket in the second over and were put under pressure straight from the word go. Dilshan Munaweera and Soumya Sarkar failed to score the runs at a brisk rate as both of them cheaply dismissed on the score of 12 and 6. Dominators were reeling at the score of 30/3.
Nasir Hossain and Mohammad Mithun took charge of batting in the middle and started scoring briskly. The pair were batting sensibly, but their progress was halted when the latter fell just 8 runs short of his half-century, they were forging a 77-run third-wicket partnership. The Dominators were tottering at 113/7 after the completion of the 14.2 over and the Strikers were cruising towards a massive victory. Skipper Nasir Hossain rotated the strike sensibly, but the required run rate was climbing, so he decided to go big but didn’t time the ball that well and departed after scoring 44 runs off 35 balls. The scoreboard pressure weighed heavily and eventually, they caved in.
The Striker's bowling attack was led by Mohammad Amir, who claimed two wickets for 19 runs in his spell. Imad Wasim (4-0-24-2), and Mashrafe Mortaza (3-0-14-2) also chipped in with a couple of wickets each. Rejaur Rahman Raja, Thisara Perera, and Najmul Hossain Shanto extracted a solitary wicket each.
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