Comilla Victorians have played the final three times in BPL and returned home with the title all three times. On the other hand, Sylhet Strikers were in the final for the first time. Star-studded domestic and foreign Comilla is arguably the best team of this season. On the other hand, despite not having any big foreign stars, Sylhet reached the finals with youth. Nazmul Hossain Shanto, the young cricketer of the national team, has rediscovered himself in this year’s BPL.

Sylhet Strikers face Comilla Victorians in the BPL final at Mirpur on Thursday (February 16) afternoon. BPL’s most successful captain faces the most successful franchise. Comilla team has world T20 stars like Sunil Narine, Andre Russell, and Moeen Ali. Among the desi, there are the best like Liton Das and Mustafizur Rahman. As expected, Comilla entered the final. However, Sylhet is the surprise name in the ninth season of BPL. Mashrafe bin Mortaza is the king of BPL, it has been proved once again in this season. They have reached the final with relatively young and unknown players.

The big contribution to Sylhet’s success is the Bangladeshi players in the team. Youngsters like Tauhid Hriday, and Nazmul Hasan Shanta have performed well for Sylhet this season. Nazmul Hossain Shanto has failed to prove his talent for the Bangladesh national team and is in great form in this year’s BPL. He is the highest run-scorer of the tournament so far by batting consistently throughout the season. Not only that, but a great record in the final is in front of him. Shantar has collected 452 runs after playing 14 matches in this tournament. Scored 3 fifties at an average of 37.66. Shanta now has a chance to break the record for the highest runs in a single tournament among Bangladeshi players. If he scores only 40 runs in the final, he will break Mushfiqur Rahim’s record of the highest number of runs among Bangladeshis in a tournament. Mushfiq scored 491 runs for Khulna Tigers in the 2019/20 seasons. Shanta has a chance to reach the milestone of 500 runs in one season. But for him, he has to score 48 runs in this match.

Riley Russo holds the record for the highest number of runs scored in a single season in BPL. The Protea star scored 558 runs in the 2018/19 season. Shanto needs to score at least 107 runs in the final to break his record. Despite getting runs in the BPL, Shanto was criticized for his strike rate. Shanto scored this run at a strike rate of just 113.85. In the list of top 10 run scorers in all seasons of BPL, no one has scored fewer strikes rate than Shant. Tamim scored 476 runs at the lowest strike rate of 115.81 in the 2016/17 season after Shant.