The 2019–20 Bangladesh Premier League Final was a day/night

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played between

Khulna Tigers Khulna Tigers ( bn, খুলনা টাইগার্স) are a franchise Twenty20 cricket team representing the Khulna division in the Bangladesh Premier League (BPL), a Twenty20 cricket tournament. The franchise was owned by Gemcon Sports a ...

Rajshahi Royals Rajshahi Royals ( Varendri/ bn, রাজশাহী রয়্যালস) were a Bangladeshi franchise Twenty20 cricket team. The team was based in Rajshahi in Bangladesh and competes in the Bangladesh Premier League (BPL), a Twenty20 fra ...

on 17 January 2020 at the

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to determine the winner of the 2019–20 Bangladesh Premier League, a special edition of professional Twenty20 cricket league in Bangladesh. Rajshahi Royals won the match by 21 runs as they won their first-ever BPL title.

Route to final

League stage

:Note: The points at the end of each group match are listed. :Note: Click on the points to see the summary for the match.

Playoffs

Eliminator

Qualifiers

;Qualifier 1 ;Qualifier 2

Final

Match Officials

* On-field Umpires:

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and Mahfuzur Rahman * TV Umpire:

Morshed Ali Khan Mohammad Morshed Ali Khan Sumon (born 14 May 1972) is an umpire and former Bangladeshi cricketer who played in three One Day Internationals in 1998. He was included in the Bangladesh national cricket team squad in the 1998 Commonwealth Games. Th ...

* Reserve Umpire: Moniruzzaman * Match Referee: Raqibul Hasan

Background

In the ''Eliminator''

Chattogram Challengers The Chattogram Challengers ( Chittagonian/ bn, চট্টগ্রাম চ্যালেঞ্জার্স) is a franchise cricket team which participates in the Bangladesh Premier League (BPL). The franchise was founded in 2012 & based ...

defeated

Dhaka Platoon The Dhaka Dominators (Dhakaiya/ bn, ঢাকা ডমিনেটর্স) is a franchise cricket team that plays in the Bangladesh Premier League (BPL), representing the country's Dhaka City, Dhaka. The team was originally established in 20 ...

by 7 wickets, and reached to ''Qualifier 2''. As a result of this match BPL going to witness a new champion under a new captain. In the ''Qualifier 1'' top-ranked

, batting first could only manage a sub-per 158 runs courtesy of Nazmul Hossain Shanto's 78*, in reply

, lost five wickets in powerplay and kept losing wickets in the regular interval on the other hand

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who scored 80 runs could not find any support from other ends, while Tiger's

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picking up 6-for, recorded the best bowling figures in BPL history (6/17). In the end, the Royals fell short of 27 runs before being all out in the last ball of their innings and Khulna sealed their spot in the BPL final for the first time. In the ''Qualifier 2'',

, the winner of ''Eliminator'', being asked to bat first by

, the loser of the ''Qualifier 1'', could manage a per-total of 164 losing 9 wickets with the help of

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's quickfire 60 off 24 balls and two 30+ contributions by

Mahmudullah Mohammad Mahmudullah ( bn, মোহাম্মদ মাহমুদুল্লাহ; born 4 February 1986), also known as Riyad, is a Bangladeshi cricketer and former captain of the Bangladesh national cricket team in T20I. He has played ...

and

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while no other batsman could manage double-digit runs. In reply, the Royals were again in trouble losing 3 wickets in powerplay and kept losing wickets in regular intervals. At the end of the 15th over they could manage only 89 runs while they still need 76 runs in the last 5 overs. But

Andre Russell Andre Dwayne Russell (born 29 April 1988) is a Jamaican who has played international cricket for West Indies cricket team, West Indies and for Jamaica national cricket team, Jamaica in domestic cricket as an all rounder (cricket), all-rounder. ...

held his nerves and scored a quickfire 54* runs off 22 balls to bring the win for his team by 2 wickets with 4 balls to spare and Rajshahi sealed their berth in the Final for the second time.

Report

Rajshahi Royals innings

The Khulna Tigers won the toss and sent the Rajshahi Royals to bat first. Opener

Afif Hossain Afif Hossain Dhrubo (Bengali: আফিফ হোসেন ধ্রুব; born 22 September 1999) is a Bangladeshi cricketer. In February 2018, he was named in Bangladesh's Twenty20 International (T20I) squad for their series against Sri Lank ...

got out cheaply but

Liton Das Litton Kumer Das ( Bengali: লিটন কুমার দাস; born 16 February 1994) is a Bangladeshi cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and a test wicket-keeper. He made his international debut for Bangladesh in June 2015. He has scor ...

along with Irfan Sukkur made a 50+ partnership with the latter scoring 52 off 35 balls. though two quick wickets of

and Sukkur did not bother much to the Royals. In the end, Mohammad Nawaz's quickfire 41 off 20 and skipper

's 27 off 16 balls gave the Royals a respectable total of 170/4.

Khulna Tigers innings

In reply, Najmul Hossain Shanto got out on the second ball of the innings. Both the openers were dismissed cheaply. Shamsur Rahman and

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tried to recover from the situation with a 74-run partnership for the third wicket - the former scored 52 off 43 balls. After the fall of Rossouw, the Tigers kept on losing wickets at regular intervals. Tigers skipper

Mushfiqur Rahim Mushfiqur Rahim ( bn, মুশফিকুর রহিম; born 9 May 1987) is a Bangladeshi cricketer and the former captain and vice-captain of the Bangladesh national cricket team. He is a right-handed middle-order batsman and wicket-keeper ...

could only manage 21 off 15 balls before being bowled. Their tail-enders also failed. The Tigers could manage 149 runs losing 8 wickets in their 20 overs resulting in Rajshahi Royals winning by 21 runs.

Summary

, skipper of Rajshahi Royals received the Man of the Match award for his all-round performance as he scored 27 off 16 balls and chipped in with 2 wickets for 32 runs in his 4 overs. "DreRuss" (Russell) also received the Player of the Tournament award for his all-round performances as he gathered 225 runs in 12 innings with an average of 56.25 and picked up 14 wickets in 12 innings as well as leading his side for their maiden BPL title.

References

External links

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