Rossouw, Mahmudullah star in Khulna's hard-battled win

Rilee Rossouw (49), Mahmudullah (48 not out) and Ariful Haque (34) aggregated helpful hands to guarantee a crucial five-wicket win for Khulna Titans over Chittagong Vikings in the Bangladesh Premier League 2017-18, on Friday (November 17). The Titans establishment pursued down the objective of 161 in the penultimate over.

In quest for a focused target, Titans would have sought after a decent begin. In any case, Sunzamul Islam struck an early pass up dislodging Michael Klinger for only 1. Rossouw at that point assumed responsibility of the procedures by splitting a huge number of shots to up the rhythm. He imparted a remain of 39 to Dhiman Ghosh (4) preceding the last was rejected by Sikandar Raza.

Rossouw was also expelled only one shy of 50. The hugeness of the left-gave opener's commitment can be capsulised by the way that he scored 49 of Titans' initial 60 runs. Nazmul Hossain didn't keep going long as Titans slid further to 79 for 4 in the tenth over. With the match tantalizingly balanced, Mahmudullah and Ariful calmed down the nerves in the camp by sewing an organization of 70 for the fifth wicket.



Taskin Ahmed got Ariful's scalp however by then Titans required only 12 more keeps running off 15 balls. Carlos Brathwaite, who supplanted Ariful at the wrinkle, broke a six and a four, while Mahmudullah crushed Chris Jordan to the midwicket limit as Titans enrolled a very much earned win.

Prior, Anamul Haque's 47-ball 62 had established the framework for Vikings' total of 160. Soumya Sarkar, the opener, formed a consistent 34-ball 32. For the Titans side, Abu Jayed, the 24-year-old pacer, packed away three wickets.

Titans are set second on the focuses table with seven focuses, while Vikings space in at a humble 6th with three focuses.

Brief scores: Chittagong Vikings 160/5 of every 20 overs (Anamul Haque 62; Abu Jayed 3-26) lost to Khulna Titans 164/5 of every 18.2 overs (Rilee Rossouw 49, Mahmudullah 48*; Al-Amin 1-14) by five wickets.