length on middle and he has finished it off with a six over deep squareleg and Rangpur are through with three balls to spare.
Khulna vs Rangpur, 25th Match at Dhaka, BPL 2019, Jan 22 2019 - Match Result
Rangpur won by 6 wickets (with 3 balls remaining)
5.01pm Got a little tight in the final over for Rangpur Riders, but for large parts of the chase, a soothsayer could not have called it better. Hales took off from the get-go, easing the pressure off Gayle with a blistering half-century, and then came de Villiers, he tore into Yasir Shah, and finally, when he was gone too, Gayle took over and upped the ante when it momentarily felt like the Titans were clawing back into the game. Gayle was circumspect for most parts, letting a number of deliveries outside off-stump through to the keeper, refusing singles but the five timely sixes he smashed off Yasir and Mahmudullah meant that he finished with a 40-ball 55 and the Titans were never given a realistic chance back into the match. Rossouw, the highest scorer this BPL, finished it off with a six in the final over. The win lifts Rangpur Riders to the third spot.
Farhad Reza is the Player of the Match for his four for 32
Hales - Both Gayle and I can take our time, I was looking to go against the seamers and he wanted to target the spinners
length, angled in, clipped to squareleg.
length outside off, down the wicket and stumped. Yasir Shah is not the easiest to skip down the wicket to and Mithun found out there as he was hurried by the pace at which he bowls
full and wide, carved over point again and they come through for another two
full outside off, left alone and called wide
full toss outside off, carved away over point as they scamper a couple
full, misses his mark by a bit, Gayle goes down the ground but doesn't get all of it and Wiese takes a smart catch on the long-on fence
yorker outside off, can't squeeze it out
full on the pads, clipped away to deep midwicket
full and wide, steered to point
full on off, drilled down the ground to long-off
full toss on the pads and pushed to deep midwicket
full outside off, squeezed out to cover
slower ball, quite full, Gayle jams his bat down on it on the way to the keeper. There is an appeal and the third umpire will have a look. Not out, the verdict
full and wide and called again
length outside off, too wide and called
down the wicket and squeezes the yorker down to third-man for four to bring up a fifty
full toss on the pads, clipped to deep squareleg
short on middle and Gayle rocks back and hammers it straight down and flat off the bavckfoot for his fifth six
down the wicket, bit of a round-arm delivery offering no bounce, picked up to deep squareleg
Shere Bangla National Stadium, Mirpur | |
Toss | Rangpur Riders, elected to field first |
Series | |
Season | 2018/19 |
Player Of The Match | |
Match days | 22 January 2019 - day (20-over match) |
Umpires | |
TV Umpire | |
Reserve Umpire | |
Match Referee | |
Points | Rangpur Riders 2, Khulna Titans 0 |