BPL2025 Cricket News, Dhaka's third consecutive loss, Khulna's second win

Dhaka's third consecutive loss, Khulna's second win

4–1–6–3. It was already difficult for Dhaka Capitals to overcome the runs that the Khulna Tigers batsmen had put in. On top of that, captain Mehedi Hasan Miraj's bowling!

But Dhaka Capitals did not lose the match as badly as they feared. Because, 'Thisara Perera Show'. Dhaka Capitals came much closer to the target towards the end with captain Thisara Perera's stormy century. In response to Khulna's 173 for 8, they finally scored 153 for 6 in 20 overs. The loss was only 20 runs. This was Dhaka Capitals third consecutive loss in three matches, and Khulna's second win in the second match.

After falling 6 wickets for just 41 runs in the second match of the day at the Sher-e-Bangla Stadium in Mirpur in front of Miraj's bowling, it seemed that Dhaka Capitals was heading towards a big defeat. But then captain Thisara started a new fight with his compatriot Chaturanga de Silva. Without giving up a single wicket, the two took the match to the last over.

Chaturanga basically accompanied Thisara in the 112-run partnership for the seventh wicket from 10.3 overs unbroken. Thisara did everything he could to do. Thisara, who hit a boundary off Ziaur Rahman on the first ball of the 16th over and reached his fifty off 39 balls, was unbeaten on 103 runs off 60 balls, while Chaturanga scored 11 runs off 20 balls!

He played only 21 balls to make the next 53 runs in an innings of 7 sixes and 9 boundaries. He completed his century by hitting a four on the last ball of the last over of William Bossit's innings. He hit another four and a huge six in the same over that had earlier yielded 16 runs.

Although Dhaka Capitals lost, Thisara's batting made the potentially one-sided match enjoyable. His mercurial batting provided enough entertainment to the Mirpur audience during the weekend. Army Chief General Waqar-uz-Zaman also enjoyed Thisara's batting in the President's Box with BCB President Farooq Ahmed.

Earlier, Khulna Tigers innings saw 50 runs for 2 wickets in the first five overs, 55/2 after the power play. Then again 67 runs in the last five overs of the innings. Although the run flow in the middle was not very good, the batting at the beginning and end brought them the runs to fight for.

The two openers Mohammad Naeem and William Bossist together gave Khulna a good start. 49 runs before Naeem returned to the last ball of the fifth over. However, after Naeem was dismissed after playing a cameo innings of 30 runs off 17 balls, the run flow also stopped as the wickets started falling. Khulna Tigers could add only 21 runs after losing 2 more wickets until the 10th over. In the next five overs, i.e. 15 overs, 2 more wickets fell, adding 31 runs.

From there, the scoreboard was 173/8 after 20 overs, with Dhaka's target of 174 runs to win. This was possible mainly thanks to Mahidul Islam's 32 off 22 balls, Ziaur Rahman's 22 off 15 balls and Abu Haider's 21 not out off 8 balls, who came out to bat at numbers 7, 8 and 9.

Abu Haider took 19 of his 21 runs in the last over bowled by Dhaka Capitals Indian-origin American pacer Shubham Ranjan. After his three sixes, Nasum Ahmed hit a four off the last ball of the over. 23 runs came in the last over alone.

Earlier, opener Bossist played until the 13th over, but scored 26 off 28 balls. But after his dismissal for the team's 93 runs, Mahidul-Ziaur quickly added runs for the seventh wicket. Their permanent partnership came to 43 in 5.1 overs.