In the National Cricket League T20, both the teams have won five matches in five matches. Both Rangpur Division and Dhaka Metro had a chance to top the points table. Rangpur and Dhaka Metro faced each other on Wednesday (December 18) noon with such an equation in front. However, Dhaka Metro won six of the six matches and took the top spot in the points table. Their collection of 12 points from 6 matches. Rangpur is in second place with 10 points from equal matches.
Rangpur batted first and were bowled out for 125 runs in 19.3 overs by Metro’s bowling cannon. In reply, Metro secured victory by losing 3 wickets in 15.3 overs by scoring 126 runs.
Meanwhile, Dhaka Division also got victory on the victory day of Dhaka Metro. They beat Rajshahi division by 7 wickets. After winning the face-to-face between the two teams at the bottom of the points table, Dhaka has collected 4 points from 6 matches and has taken the seventh place. Rajshahi is at the bottom with only 2 points from equal matches.
Dhaka Metro’s Alis Al Islam and Abu Haider Rony all out Rangpur in 19.3 overs with great bowling. Ronnie bowled 3 overs and took 3 wickets for just 7 runs. He was also the man of the match. And Alis took 3 wickets with 22 runs in 4 overs.
Rangpur’s top order did not get any runs from their bowling cannon. Khalid Hassan 3, Tanbir Haider 2, Mim Mosaddek 1, Naeem Islam 7 and Akbar Ali were out for 1 run. After that, Rangpur could go up to 125 with the innings of Ariful Haque, Mohammad Enamul’s 34 and Alauddin Babu’s 47 runs, losing all the wickets.
In response, Dhaka Metro lost the wickets of Mohammad Naeem (7) for 25 runs and Imranuzzaman (25) for 38 runs. From there, Sadman Islam and Anisul Islam Imon made a pair of 80 runs to take the team to the port of victory. Sadman returned with 118 runs in 37 balls with 7 fours and 1 six in an innings of 54 runs. And Eamon played an unbeaten innings of 29 runs and left the field winning the team. He scored this run with 2 fours and 1 six.
Alauddin Babu of Rangpur took 2 wickets with the ball. Ariful Haque took 1 wicket.
Meanwhile, Rajshahi came to bat against Dhaka and were bowled out for 140 runs by Habibur Rahman Sohan’s 19, Sabbir Hossain’s 32 and Touhid Hriday’s 37 runs.
Dhaka’s Iqbal Hossain Emon took 3 wickets with 26 runs in 4 overs. And Nazmul Islam and Suman Khan took 2 wickets each.
Chasing runs, Jawad Abrar’s fifty (62), Rony Talukder’s 33 and Ariful Islam’s 19 runs ensured Dhaka’s victory with 29 balls and 7 wickets in hand. Rajshahi’s Wasi Siddiqui took 2 wickets with 35 runs in 4 overs. Dhaka’s Jawad was the man of the match.