All-round Tanvir crushes Rajshahi

All-round Tanvir crushes Rajshahi

Sohail Tanvir’s all-round show propelled Sylhet Sixers to their third victory in the sixth Bangladesh Premier League when they beat Rajshahi Kings by 76 runs in a one-sided opening match of the Chattogram leg on Friday.

Tanvir’s late cameo of 23 off 10 balls after Sylhet’s new English recruit Jason Roy had set the foundation with a 42 off 28 balls helped Sylhet reach a challenging score of 180-6.

In reply, Fazle Mahmud played a lone battle with the bat for Rajshahi, scoring 50 off 41 balls as rest of the Rajshahi batsmen failed to put up any substantial score as Rajshahi were bowled out for 104 in 18.2 overs.

Tanvir, who finished with 3-17, removed the tournament’s only centurion Laurie Evans for one in the last ball of the first over to leave a serious dent in Rajshahi’s chances of chasing down the total.

Fazle held one end up but Rajshahi lost Mominul Haque (five), Ryan ten Doeschate (12) and Zakir Hasan (17) to be reduced to 81-4 in 13.1 overs.

Fazle, trying to keep up with the required rate, attempted to take on Mohammad Nawaz in the 14th over but ended up top edging and giving a simple catch to the newly appointed Sylhet skipper Alok Kapali.

Nawaz, who finished with 3-22, then trapped Christiaan Jonker for a leg-before in the next delivery and then dismissed skipper Mehedi Hasan in the fifth ball of the over to reduce Rajshahi to 90-7.

Rajshahi managed 14 runs for the last three wickets before Kapali dismissed Kamrul Islam (two) to end Rajshahi’s innings.

Earlier, Sylhet were stranded on 28-2 after three overs after losing openers Sabbir Rahman (one) and Liton Das (24 off 13 balls).

Roy, who was playing his first match in the BPL 6, alongside Afif Hossain then added 62 off 42 balls, before failing to connect Sekugge Prasanna’s spinning delivery and was clean bowled by the Sri Lankan in the last ball of the 10th over.

Sylhet then kept losing regular wickets before a 41-run seventh wicket stand between Kapali (16 off 14 balls) and Tanvir took Sylhet to a challenging total in their stipulated overs.

Mustafiz, who finished with 2-43, bowled a 22-run final over, conceding four boundaries with a no-ball and a wide, which helped Sylhet reach a winning total.