That's it from our coverage of this Bangladesh Premier League fixture between Chittagong Kings and Khulna Tigers. The Kings got over the line by a huge margin of 45 runs to reclaim the second spot on the points table.
This is Ajay Pal Singh signing off on behalf of my colleagues Arjun Bhalla and Dushyant Madhukar Kumar. Goodbye!!!!
Mohammad Mithun (Chittagong Kings Captain): "Yes, every win is special, and we are going really well. We do have some limitations but we are going properly.
Thanks to our home crowd. This was our first game of the season here, and the crowd was so loud. Thanks for the support.
He (Arafat Sunny) is one of the best bowlers in BPL history, and I think he is the second-highest wicket-taker in the tournament history. So, he always has delivered. He missed the last game, but he did his job in this game. Thanks!"
Graham Clark (POTM): "(On making a habit of bagging POTM award) Yeah, loving it (chuckles). The crowd was fantastic tonight. Always nice to perform in front of home crowd.
Absolutely, we found out, if you keep wickets in hand, you can accelerate later on. This is what we put, we put our foot down once we got the start.
This is probably as has as you can get in Durham (chuckles)."
Player of the Match: Graham Clark
Time for the post-match presentation
Mehidy Hasan Miraz (Khulna Tigers Captain): "Yeah, I thought dew would come as it came in Sylhet, but it didn't come here. We lost the momentum with the bat.
Nawaz and Salman bowled really well and brought us back into the game, but we didn't bat well. We failed to stitch the partnership. We never got stands from the start. You need to have a partnership; the responsibility is of the top four batters. I think 200 runs is always chaseable, but we need to rethink our plans."
9:41 PM IST & 10:11 PM Local Time: That's it!!!!! Chittagong Kings take back their second place on the points table from Fortune Barishal with a convincing win over Khulna Tigers. They get over the line by 45 runs. Once the Kings posted 200, it was always going to be an uphill task for the Tigers and they kept losing wickets at regular intervals to make things tougher for them.
Earlier in the match, the Kings posted 200/7 thanks to a fine century from Graham Clark who absolutely demolished the Khulna Tigers' attack.
Apart from Clark, Parvez Hossain Emon made 39 off 29. There was hardly any other major contributor with the bat. Shamim Hossain scored 16 off 13 while Usman Khan perished for 10 off 7.
Salman Irshad and Mohammad Nawaz picked up three wickets each. Abu Haider bagged a wicket.
In reply, Khulna Tigers lost Dom Sibley in the second over. Mehidy Hasan Miraz came out all guns blazing but he too perished after scoring 19 off 8. Afif Hossain and Darwish Rasooli tried to steady the ship with scores of 20 and 37 respectively but the scoreboard pressure got to them.
Mohammad Nawaz swung his bat around and got to 25 off 20 before losing his wicket. The Khulna Tigers managed to play out their full quota of 20 overs but fell 45 runs short of the target.
Arafat Sunny was the pick of the bowlers, finishing with figures of 3/25 from his four overs. Shoriful Islam and Khaled Amed bagged two apiece while Aliss Islam and Mohammad Wasim Jr picked up one wicket each. Stay tuned as we will be back with the post-match presentation.
OVER 20
Khulna Tigers
155/9
Salman Irshad
2(4)
Hasan Mahmud
12(10)
Mohammad Wasim Jr
1-31(4.0)
19.6 M Wasim to H Mahmud
1 Slower full ball on the stumps. Mahmud backs away and slogs down to deep mid wicket for a single. That would be it for the Tigers, as the Kings win it by a massive margin of 45 runs.