Match Details

DD vs SYS 24th Match, BPL 2024

SYS

129-519.0

Sylhet Strikers won by 5 wickets 🏆

20.0124-8

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Player of the Match

SYS - 2nd Innings

Session	Open	PASS
6 Over	41	42
10 Over	69	74
15 Over	102	100

DD - 1st Innings

Session	Open	PASS
6 Over	41	52
10 Over	83	82
15 Over	120	102
20 Over	152	124

Commentary

That's all from this contest, folks! For now, this is Deepak Prakash signing off on behalf of scorer/analyst Yogesh Kumar. CHEERS!

Mohammad Mithun (Sylhet Strikers Captain): "Yeah, we were looking for the win and today is that day so, very happy. Dhaka started really well and I told my bowlers to stay at their basics and they bounced back strongly in the second half of the innings."

Benny Howell (Player of the Match): "Yeah, it was a little tricky. Very happy to get over the line, good to win. I know we have to win a few more, but it's good to win today. We just had to restrict them as much as we possibly could, and actually, our bowlers bowled incredibly well. We restricted to a target that was reachable with the bat. So now we're very happy.

[Pitch] It was tricky to bat on, and nice to bowl on. I mean, you would like a probably more batter-friendly wicket, but at the end of the day, we had to do a job today and we did it well."

Player of the Match: Benny Howell

Taskin Ahmed (Durdanto Dhaka Captain): "Yeah, definitely, it's disappointing as we started well but failed to carry the momentum and were around 30 runs short. It would have been a different game had we scored around 150 runs. We have not batted well in the whole tournament."

9:22 PM IST, 9:52 PM Local Time: Benny Howell finishes things off in style, and Sylhet Strikers win by 5 wickets with 6 balls to spare. A well-composed 50+ partnership between Burl and Howell has helped the Strikers come out of a dire situation and cross the winning line.

Earlier, after being invited to bat first, Durdanto Dhaka lost Sabbir Hossain for a mere 4 runs in the first over of the innings. Mohammad Naim and Saif Hassan started building the partnership in the middle, and the pair scored at a brisk pace in the powerplay and helped their side post 52/1 in the mandatory powerplay. The duo added 78 runs for the second wicket, with Saif falling just 9 runs shy of his fifty. Saif was followed by Naim in the next over, who departed for 36 runs and fell prey to Samit Patel.

Following the departure of both set batters, Durdanto Dhaka failed to carry the momentum, kept losing wickets at regular intervals, and were restricted to a below-par total of 124/8 in 20 overs.

Rejaur Rahman Raja shone with the ball for the Strikers, claiming three wickets. Samit Patel chipped in with a couple of wickets, while Nayeem Hasan and Benny Howell celebrated a solitary wicket.

In pursuit of a paltry 124 runs, Sylhet Strikers lost Harry Tector, Samit Patel, and Zakir Hasan cheaply inside the powerplay, with all three falling prey to left-arm quick Shoriful Islam. However, Najmul Hossain Shanto scored briskly and kept the run rate in check, helping his side post 42 runs in the mandatory powerplay despite losing three wickets.

Shanto (33) and Mohammad Mithun (17) steadied the ship in the middle overs, but Usman Qadir removed both set batters in quick succession to bring Durdanto Dhaka back into the game. However, Burl and Howell displayed a cautious approach, playing carefully and adding a 50+ runs partnership. The duo remained unbeaten on 29 and 30 runs, respectively, and helped the Strikers cross the winning line by 5 wickets and 6 balls to spare.

Shoriful Islam bagged three wickets for Durdanto Dhaka, while Usman Qadir celebrated a couple of wickets.

Stay tuned for the post-match presentation...

OVER 19

Sylhet Strikers

129/5

Benny Howell

30(26)

Ryan Burl

29(31)

Taskin Ahmed

0-40(4.0)

18.6 T Ahmed to B Howell

6 SIX! Benny Howell finishes things off in style! Back of a length delivery angling on the stumps. Howell swots across the line of the ball and gets the top edge of the bat, flying over the long leg for a maximum. Sylhet Strikers win by 5 wickets with 6 balls to spare.

18.5 T Ahmed to B Howell

2 Full and on the pads. Howell flicks it to deep square leg for a couple of runs.

18.4 T Ahmed to R Burl

1 Length delivery angling down the leg. Burl clips it to short fine leg for a single.

18.3 T Ahmed to B Howell

1 Dropped! Full and outside off. Howell drives it uppishly to the left of short cover, who tumbles to his left and spills it. A single it taken.

18.2 T Ahmed to R Burl

1 Good length delivery outside off. Burl cuts it towards point and hustles for a single but is denied from the other end. The point fielder has a shy at the keeper's end stumps but misses, allowing an overthrow run.

18.1 T Ahmed to R Burl

0 Over the wicket. Back of a length delivery angling away outside off and it keeps a tad low. Burl pulls it off the cue end of the bat towards the bowler.

Equation: 7 needed off 12 balls. Taskin will bowl the penultimate over.

OVER 18

Sylhet Strikers

118/5

Benny Howell

21(23)

Ryan Burl

27(28)

Arafat Sunny

0-22(4.0)

17.6 A Sunny to B Howell

0 Dot to end the over. Tossed up outside off. Howell drives it straight to short extra cover.

17.5 A Sunny to B Howell

2 Full and outside off. Howell throws his bat and slices it to deep point for a couple of runs.