Dhaka Dominators Vs Fortune Barishal 31st Match 31 January 2023

31st T20 • Sylhet International Cricket Stadium • Sylhet

Fortune Barisal

156/8 (20)

Dhaka Dominators

157/5 (18.5)

MD won by 5 wickets

Info

Fantasy

Live

Scorecard

Playing XI

Player of the Match Mohammad Mithun

54(36)

Fortune Barishal

Info

Fortune Barishal

156/8 (20)

Batters

Anamul Haque Bijoy

120.00

c M Mithun b S Sarkar

Saif Hassan

78.95

c AJ Blake b A Hamza

Shakib Al Hasan

125.00

c Ariful Haque b Muktar Ali

Ibrahim Zadran

50.00

st M Mithun b A Hamza

Iftikhar Ahmed

100.00

c AJ Blake b M Hossain

Mahmudullah

144.44

c A Hamza b S Islam

Salman Hossain

116.67

c U Ghani b S Irshad

Karim Janat

340.00

runout (S Irshad)

Mohammad Wasim

100.00

Not out

Extras

(B: 0, LB: 4, NB: 0, W: 4)

TOTAL

(20 Ov, RR: 7.8)

156/8

Did not Bat

Sunzamul Islam, Khaled Ahmed

Bowlers

EXT

10.75

7.75

5.50

6.75

7.50

7.00

Fall Of Wickets

SCORE

OVER

Saif Hassan

c AJ Blake b A Hamza

1-42

6.2

Shakib Al Hasan

c Ariful Haque b Muktar Ali

2-49

7.2

Ibrahim Zadran

st M Mithun b A Hamza

3-54

8.3

Iftikhar Ahmed

c AJ Blake b M Hossain

4-66

10.5

Anamul Haque Bijoy

c M Mithun b S Sarkar

5-92

13.6

Mahmudullah

c A Hamza b S Islam

6-134

18.2

Salman Hossain

c U Ghani b S Irshad

7-150

19.1

Karim Janat

runout (S Irshad)

8-156

19.6

Dhaka Dominators

157/5 (18.5)

Batters

Soumya Sarkar

168.18

c AH Bijoy b K Janat

Mohammad Mithun

150.00

lbw b Sunzamul Islam

Abdullah Al Mamun

123.81

c I Ahmed b Sunzamul Islam

Nasir Hossain *

125.00

Not out

Alex Blake

125.00

c S Hossain b S Al Hasan

Ariful Haque

50.00

b S Al Hasan

Usman Ghani

50.00

Not out

Extras

(B: 0, LB: 0, NB: 0, W: 2)

TOTAL

(18.5 Ov, RR: 8.34)

157/5

Did not Bat

Salman Irshad, Muktar Ali, Shoriful Islam, Amir Hamza

Bowlers

EXT

4.50

11.33

13.50

3.5

9.13

Karim Janat

10.00

Salman Hossain

8.00

Iftikhar Ahmed

5.00

Fall Of Wickets

SCORE

OVER

Soumya Sarkar

c AH Bijoy b K Janat

1-74

7.4

Mohammad Mithun

lbw b Sunzamul Islam

2-103

11.2

Abdullah Al Mamun

c I Ahmed b Sunzamul Islam

3-122

13.6

Alex Blake

c S Hossain b S Al Hasan

4-151

17.1

Ariful Haque

b S Al Hasan

5-153

17.4

Match Info

Date & Time

31 Jan, 01:00 PM IST

Venue

Sylhet International Cricket Stadium

Match

31st T20,

Bangladesh Premier League

Umpires

Mozahiduzzaman (Bangladesh), Prageeth Rambukwella (Sri Lanka), Morshed Ali Khan (Bangladesh, TV)

Referee

Raqibul Hasan (Bangladesh)

Toss

Fortune Barisal elected to bat

Player of the Match Mohammad Mithun

54(36)

Commentary

So that will be all from this BPL match from Sylhet. Hope you enjoyed our coverage. This is the pair of Pradeep and Bidipto, saying good bye. Keep following Sportskeeda!

Nasir Hossain (Dhaka Dominators captain): I feel really pleased with this win! We are still in the playoff race and the full credit for that goes to our players. We beat one of the best sides of the tournament, so we do feel that we can beat any other side going forward. Our openers batted really well, provided us with a tremendous start and laid the foundation for us middle-order batters to finish the job by playing normal cricket. The pitch became better to bat on and we thrived on it in the second innings.

Mohammad Mithun is the Player of the Match! Here's what he has to say: Was looking for a big score, thanks to the coaching staff for helping me promote up the order. Results were not going our way, but the next two matches will be crucial for us.

Shakib Al Hasan (Fortune Barishal captain): Wicket was pretty good to bat on, we couldn't put enough runs on the board and didn't bowl according to the plan, we were not up to the mark today. Hard to tell, as I said, we were not up to the mark, we had to play a good game of cricket to win the game and we didn't do that, they capitalized on that. As long as we're winning it's fine, when we don't win there are so many things to think of.

Dhaka Dominators - 157/5, beat Fortune Barishal - 156/8, by 5 wickets with 7 balls to spare.

Mohammad Mithun 54 (36) | Amir Hamza - 2/22
Anamul Haque 42 (35) | Shakib Al Hasan - 2/18

So mathematically at least, Dhaka Dominators are alive in the race for the top four, with this comfortable win, on a pitch that was not the best to bat on. But some positive knocks from the top order and some brave stroke-play from the middle order helped the side from Bangladesh's capital, finish their Sylhet leg on a high!

Dhaka needed a good start and that they got! Both Soumya Sarkar and, his opening partner for today, Mohammad Mithun, were superb in the power play, scoring 55 runs without loss!

Pace on the ball in this, the second innings, had to hit the hard length more often than not. But unfortunately for Fortune Barishal, their seamers got the lengths, more than anything else, wrong on this surface.

There were far too many deliveries that were either too short or too full and the fast bowlers seemed reluctant to take pace off the ball, for some strange reason!

The decision to bowl Mohammad Wasim against Alex Blake, when the left-hander was struggling to score against spin, proved costly for Shakib Al Hasan. He got taken for three boundaries on the trot to take his side ever closer to victory.

Young Abdullah Al Manun was impressive with his courageous shots at just the right time, so he will surely be a big investment going forward for this franchise.

Of course, another composed knock from skipper Nasir Hossain and a commanding half-century from wicketkeeper-batter Mohammad Mithun were on show, to give their team a much needed triumph!

18.5 Sunzamul Islam to Usman Ghani, THERE IT IS! Dominators seal the game in a must win encounter. Short and slides into Ghani on the off-stump, on the backfoot he punched it through the covers for a single. Dominators still in with a chance provided they win all their remaining games.

Scores are level.

18.4 Sunzamul Islam to Nasir Hossain, skips down the track for the length delivery, Nasir punched it down to long-off for one. Scores are level now!

18.3 Sunzamul Islam to Nasir Hossain, tossed up delivery on the stumps, Nasir lunges to defend.

18.2 Sunzamul Islam to Usman Ghani, short into Ghani, on the backfoot he uses his wrist and whips it to deep mid-wicket for another single.

18.1 Sunzamul Islam to Nasir Hossain, drops it short on the fourth stump, Nasir stood tall and steers it to sweeper cover for one.

Sunzamul Islam [3.0-0-31-2] comes back into the attack. He will bowl round the wicket.

Shakib gets two wickets in the over and Dhaka are delayed a win here. But, had Wasim not bowled that over to Blake, with a spinner bowling instead, the story could have been different at this stage.

overs

153 /5 score

runs

Usman Ghani *

0 (2)

Nasir Hossain

18 (13)

Shakib Al Hasan

2 /18

17.6 Shakib Al Hasan to Usman Ghani, fires one on the stumps, Ghani leans to whack that one away but gets the inside edge on to the boot.

17.5 Shakib Al Hasan to Usman Ghani, drags it short on the fourth stump, Ghani on the backfoot allows it to come him and defends.

Usman Ghani, RHB, is at the crease.

17.4 Shakib Al Hasan to Ariful Haque, OUT! CLEANED HIM UP! Too little too late this for Barishal, as my colleague Bidipto pointed out why didn't Shakib bowl the last over? Flighted delivery, drifts nicely into Haque who lunges to defend but leaves a big gap between bat and pad, sneaks through the gates and crashes into the stumps.

Ariful Haque b Shakib Al Hasan 1 (2b, 0x4, 0x6)

17.3 Shakib Al Hasan to Nasir Hossain, short and angled into Nasir, hangs back and whips it down to deep mid-wicket for a single.

17.2 Shakib Al Hasan to Ariful Haque, good length and down the leg-side, Haque went to sweep but gets a tickle and they pick up a single.

A slip is in place with Shakib bowling round the wicket.

Ariful Haque, RHB, is at the crease.