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CLAIM NOWToss Winner - Dhaka Capitals won the toss and choose to bat first
Durbar Rajshahi beat Dhaka Capitals by 7 wickets
Two teams who lost their opening games of the 2024/25 Bangladesh Premier League go head to head in Match 5!
We are backing Durbar Rajshahi to win!
Tournament: | Bangladesh Premier League, 2024-25 |
Format: | t20 |
Venue: | Sher-E-Bangla National Cricket Stadium, Dhaka, Bangladesh |
Toss Prediction: | To Bat |
Weather: | 23.9°C|Sunny |
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This edition of the Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) has got off to a flying start with wins for Fortune Barishal, Rangpur Riders and Khulna Tigers across the opening four games.
We have also had a good battle between bat and ball with totals of 197/3, 200/6, 191/6, 151/9, 203/4, 166 all out, 155/6 and 121/9.
Bowlers of all disciplines have had success and batters have tended to get full value for their shots with the bounce true and hard at the Sher'e Bangla Stadium!
With both of these teams searching for their opening victory - this could be an excellent contest on Thursday.
159/6 in 20.0 7.95
149/5 in 20.0 7.45
149/10 in 19.4 7.57
189/4 in 20.0 9.45
Durbar Rajshahi scored 197/3 in the opening game of the tournament, and looked in good shape to get off to a victory in Match 1 but then saw Fortune Barishal hit 200/6 with 11 balls remaining!
So ahead of this game, Rajshahi will be looking to improve with both bat and ball to get their first win of the campaign.
With the bat, Yasir Ali (94 not out from 47 balls) and captain Anamul Haque (65 runs from 51 balls) hit 140 runs for the third wicket partnership and both will be full of confidence ahead of this game.
With the ball, Raskin Ahmed took 3/31 against Barishal and the international pace bowler will no doubt take the new ball once again in this fixture.
The speedster's efforts went in vain against the Fortune Barisal's where he finished with figures of 3/31. Taskin bowls both in the powerplay and death overs where the batters will be looking to score the most runs, which produces more chances of taking wickets. He has two three wickets hauls and has 64 wickets in T20s in matches played at Mirpur.
The skipper of the Durbar's, Anamul Haque is off to a good start to his BPL season where he scored 65 runs and was the second best batter. While he might not be one of those big hitters that can hit sixes at will, but he is a consistent run-scorer and more often than not ends up being the top scorer for his team.
The right hander scored a thunderous 94 run knock in the tournament opener against the Barishal's. He averages 25 runs per game at Mirpur, against the Dhaka Capitals he averages 22 runs per game. Yasir has been racking up runs consistently in recent times and we back him to continue his good run of form and score over 18.5 runs.
Mohammad Haris, Jishan Alam, Anamul Haque (c), Yasir Ali, Ryan Burl, Akbar Ali (wk), SM Meherob, Lahiru Samarakoon, Mrittunjoy Chowdhury, Taskin Ahmed, Hasan Murad
Mohammad Haris, Akbar Ali, Ryan Burl, Yasir Ali, Anamul Haque, Jishan Alam, Sabbir Hossain, Taskin Ahmed, Shafiul Islam, Hasan Murad, Mohor Sheikh
Chasing 192 to win Match 2 against Rangpur Riders, Dhaka Capital produced a disappointing showing in spite of the opening pair putting on 65 for the first wicket. But there then followed something of a collapse with no other batter making a score of 19 or over and the team slumped to 151/9 from their 20 overs.
Ahead of this game, the opening pair of Tanzid Hasan and Litton Das may consider a more aggressive approach as the rest of the line-up produced so little! Stephen Eskinazi is another talented white ball batter and he should benefit from having already faced 21 balls at this ground.
With the ball, Mukidul Islam is always very economical whereas Alauddin Babu is a strike-bowler. Mutafizur Rahman also has the experience to bounce back from figures of 1/48.
The left hander scored 30 runs in his last outing, he play's more of a supporting role and play's risk free shots and scores with a strike rate of 130-140. Given his ability to score runs at a consistent rate, we predict Tanzid Hasan is the best batter to bet on to score over 19.5 runs in this fixture.
Tanzid Hasan, Litton Das (wk), Habibur Rahman Sohan, Stephen Eskinazi, Farmanullah, Thisara Perera (c), Alauddin Babu, Amir Hamza, Mukidul Islam, Nazmul Islam, Mustafizur Rahman
Litton Das, Stephen Eskinazi, Tanzid Hasan Tamim, Shahadat Hossain, Thisara Perera, Shubham Ranjane, Mukidul Islam, Mustafizur Rahman, Nazmul Islam, Alauddin Babu, Chaturanga de Silva
The weather in Mirpur is forecast to be cloudy throughout Thursday evening with the temperature no higher than 16 degrees. There is a small chance of rain.
This is an excellent batting track in Mirpur with the ball coming onto the bat at a nice pace for stroke-making batters. A par score is likely to be over 195 in the first innings.
We back the host's Rajshahi Durbar to win the coin toss
So far it has been a high scoring BPL season, where three of the four matches have seen scores in excess of over 340 runs (397, 342, 369 & 278). The surface at Mirpur has favoured the batters, while the square boundaries being relatively short has further aided the batters. We predict another high scoring game in this fixture and the total match score to be over 335.5 runs.
With the last three games in the tournament won by the team batting first, we predict that both skippers will want to bat first in this fixture.
Looking at the performances in the opening two games, it is Durbar Rajshahi who looked stronger and more likely to win so we are backing them to get the victory in this fixture.
We are backing Durbar Rajshahi to win!
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