BPL 2017 Samuels, Kayes feature Victorians' clinical win

Imrul Kayes (47) and Marlon Samuels (41) played urgent thumps while Rashid Khan and Mahedi Hasan packed away two scalps each to enable Comilla Victorians to usurp Rangpur Riders by 14 runs, as they secured their fourth progressive win in the BPL 2017-18, on Saturday (November 17). Riders wound up with 139, in quest for the objective of 154.

The Riders camp would have sought after the forceful opening pair of Chris Gayle (17) and Brendon McCullum to have an effect forthright. Shockingly, both fell efficiently as Riders ended up stuck in an unfortunate situation at 31 for 3 in the 6th over. Gayle was even reprieved twice however couldn't exploit it. It soon moved toward becoming 32 for 4, when Shahriar Nafees fell in the same over. Mahedi represented the scalps of McCullum and Nafees, while Rashid unstuck Gayle and Kusal Perera.

Mohammad Mithun (31) and Ravi Bopara (48*) endeavored to do the repair work with a 67-run remain for the fifth wicket before the previous tumbled to Al-Amin Hossain. Notwithstanding, by then the asking rate had touched 11 runs for every finished. Mahrafe Mortaza, the skipper, handled a couple of strong blows however he couldn't hand the hold over Riders' support as they slipped to their third annihilation in four amusements up until now.

Prior, Kayes and Samuels had established the framework for Victorians' aggressive aggregate with a 45-run remain for the fourth wicket. Let down the request, Mohammad Saifuddin (16) split a few capable hits to enable Victorians to gather 14 keeps running in the last finished. In the long run, it demonstrated to a definitive factor as Riders lost the amusement by the very same edge.

Mortaza and Thisara Perera shared two crown jewels each for the Riders set-up. With this triumph, Victorians have moved to second spot on the focuses table with eight focuses while Riders keep on languishing at the base of the table wi

Brief scores: Comilla Victorians 153/6 in 20 overs (Imrul Kayes 47, Marlon Samuels 41; Mahrafe Mortaza 2-22) beat Rangpur Riders 139/7 in 20 overs (Ravi Bopara 48*, Mohammad Mithun 31; Mahedi Hasan 2-15, Rashid Khan 2-19) by 14 runs.

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