Sylhet Strikers vs Durdanto Dhaka BPL Match 2024, 17th match of Bangladesh Premier League will be played at the Sylhet International Stadium between Sylhet Striker and Durdanto Dhaka on 2 February.
Mashrafe Mortaza captain of Sylhet Strikers is fighting with the ball and as a captain.
Mashrafe, the most successful cricketer in BPL history, the captain of the team with the most championships, will want to forget this season. He has taken only one wicket in five matches. He gave 58 runs off 45 balls. And he himself scored 8 runs with the bat. In an attempt to take the team forward in batting, he failed to go down to one down.
Mashrafe’s Sylhet has lost five matches in a row and is at the bottom of the league table.
Out of four matches, Durdanto Dhaka won one match and lost three matches and is at the sixth position of the league table in BPL 2024.
Sylhet Strikers lost their last match against Fortune Barishal by 49 runs. Strikers seem to have lost five matches in a row due to lack of star bowler or batsman and frequent player changes.
No other batsman in the BPL could create an impact for Sylhet save Zakir Hasan.
Zakir Hasan is the second highest run scorer in 5 matches of BPL 2024 . Zakir completed five matches with 189 runs and a half-century.
In the most recent game versus Fortune Barishal, Zakir scored the most runs for Sylhet, 46 in total.
England all-rounder Samit Patel took 3 wickets in only one match and failed with bat and ball in the other two matches.
Richard Ngarava took the most wickets for Sylhet and he bagged five wickets in four matches.
Benny Howell scored 24 runs off 19 balls at bat and grabbed three wickets with the 21 runs in the previous game.
Durdanto Dhaka won their last match against Comilla Victorians and since then they have lost three matches in a row.
Mohammad Naim is Dhaka’s highest run scorer with 110 runs in four matches.
Naim scored 41 runs for Dhaka in the team’s most recent match against Khulna Tigers.
Another Dhaka batsman in the previous match was Saim Ayub, he contributed 35 runs to the team’s run collection.
The bowlers failed to pick up a single wicket in the previous match as a result of which Khulna Tigers won the match by ten wickets.
Pitch report –
The last two games had seen batting averages of 175. it won’t be strange if the toss winner choose to bat first because Sylhet has shown to be a profitable ground. Boundaries are reduced during BPL matches due to the field’s size, which makes it ideal for T20 cricket.
There will be fierce competition in this great bat-ball battle. For hitters, the Sylhet International Cricket Stadium track is superior. As a result, there is an equal amount of tension for the bowler and the batsman.
Possible playing XI for Sylhet Strikers vs Durdanto Dhaka BPL Match :
Durdanto Dhaka –
Mohammad Naim, Saim Ayub, Chaturanga de Silva, Alex Ross, Gulbadin Naib, Mosaddek Hossain (C), Irfan Sukkur (wk), Arafat Sunny, Alauddin Babu, Shoriful Islam, Taskin Ahmed.
Sylhet Strikers –
Mohammad Mithun (C/wk), Zakir Hasan, Najmul Hossain Shanto, Shamsur Rahman, Ariful Haque, Ryan Burl, Samit Patel, Benny Howell, Nayeem Hasan, Richard Ngarava, Rejaur Rahman Raza.
Mashrafe Mortaza is not able to lead the team from the front as captain and he is not fully fit. But the day following the 5th consecutive defeat, he left Sylhet and traveled to the capital Dhaka to carry out his parliamentary whip responsibilities. Took an indefinite break from BPL. Not sure whether to return. Instead, the burden of leadership will be on the shoulders of Mohammad Mithun.
