Yasir Tamim’s Khulna Tigers were the first team to be eliminated from this year’s BPL season. They have been eliminated from the tournament after losing by 37 runs against Fortune Barisal.

The top four teams in the points table will go to the knockouts. Sylhet Strikers are now at the top with 16 points. Barisal in second place has 14 points. Comilla is third with 12 points, Rangpur Riders are fourth with 10 points. That is, even if Khulna wins the remaining two matches, they will not be able to overtake Rangpur. Khulna set a target of 195 runs against Barisal in a life-or-death match at Mirpur Sher Bangla National Stadium on Friday (February 3). Chasing the target, they scored 157 runs after losing 8 wickets at the end of the scheduled over. Tamim Iqbal was a shadow in the critical match of Khulna. He was a victim of Wasim with only 1 run from 3 balls. Another opener Andrew Balbarney scored 12 runs. Then Shai Hope, who played a big inning in the previous match, took the lead. Hope, who scored 91 runs against Comilla, scored 37 runs off 24 balls that day. Then it was Yasir Ali who tried to win. Nahidul Islam accompanied him for some time. But it was not enough to win. Nahidul scored 24 runs. Yasir scored 60 runs off 38 balls after being dismissed by Karim Bhangir. With that, Khulna’s dream of this year’s BPL season ended.

Earlier, Barisal scored 194 runs with the bat of Iftikhar-Shaqib and Fazle Mahmud. They scored 32 runs in the opening pair. At this time, Enamul Haque returned with a catch in the hands of Shafiqul from Von Meekeren. Fazle Mahmood scored 39 runs off 29 balls. Ibrahim Zadran was out for 23 runs. After that, Shakib and Iftikhar Ahmed formed a long pair. Barisal scored 52 runs in Shakib-Iftikhar.
The second man played somewhat defensively at the start but Shakib was aggressive. After scoring 36 off 21 balls, he was dismissed by Meekeren. The country’s best all-rounder had 4 sixes and a four in his innings.

After Shakib got out, Iftikhar stormed. The world’s best all-rounder scored 16 runs in the over. Karim Janat provided excellent support to the Pakistani batsmen. He increased the tension of the match by hitting three consecutive boundaries in the 19th over by Shafiqul Islam. At the other end, Iftikhar completed his half-century in 30 balls and finally scored 51 runs. Karim Janat made 16 out of 200 strike rates. Meekeren took 3 wickets for Dhaka. Nahidul Islam and Hasan Murad got one wicket each.