Vinay Kumar
Comilla Victorians won the Bangladesh Premier League (BPL 2022) title. He defeated Fortune Barisal by 1 run in the final match. History is witness that Comilla Victorians has won the BPL trophy for the third time. She has previously been the champion in the 2015-16 and 2018-19 seasons as well.
West Indies all-rounder Sunil Narine played a big role in this victory of Comilla Victorians. Batting first, Naren hit a half-century in 21 balls. After that he also took 2 wickets for just 15 runs in 4 overs. See the result that the team with star batsmen like Chris Gayle and Dwayne Bravo, chasing the target of 152 runs, Fortune Barisal could score only 150 runs for 8 wickets in 20 overs and just 1 Lost by run.
The special thing is that both Chris Gayle and Dwayne Bravo were made their victims by Sunil Narine. Sunil Narine made history in the ‘Bangladesh Premier League’ by hitting a half-century in 13 balls in the last match itself. In T20 cricket, he reached joint second with Marcus Trescothic in terms of scoring the fastest half century.
In this title match played at the ‘Shere Bangla National Stadium’ in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, Comilla Victorians won the toss and batted first. Batting P, this team scored 151 runs for the loss of 9 wickets in 20 overs and gave a target of 152 runs to the opposition team to win. From his side, Sunil Narine played a brilliant innings of 57 runs in 23 balls with the help of 5 brilliant fours and 5 superb sixes.
However, except Sunil Narine, the captain of the team, Imrul Kayas (38 runs in 12 balls) and Abu Haider (19 runs in 27 balls) could only touch the double digit figure. For Fortune Barishal, Mujeeb Ur Rahman took 27 wickets and Shafikul Islam took 2-2 wickets for 31 runs.
Captain Shakib-ul-Hasan, Dwayne Bravo, Mehdi Hasan Rana also took 1-1 wickets. Fortune Barishal’s team could not achieve the target despite the efforts of Shaukat Ali (58 runs from 34 balls), Chris Gayle, wicketkeeper Nurul Hasan (14 runs), Najmul Hossain Shanto (12 runs).
the thrill of the last death over
Fortune Barisal needed 10 runs to win in the last over. Imrul Kayas gave the ball to Shohidul Islam to bowl the 20th over. No run scored on the first ball. Next 2 balls 2 runs. The fourth ball went wide and Tauhid also took 2 runs by running. Now 5 runs were needed from 2 balls. Tauheed’s shot on the fifth ball went high in the air, but Islam could not catch the ball. Mujeeb Ur Rahman was run out on the last ball of the last over and the team lost by just 1 run.