Well that's it from this match folks! Rangpur Riders claim a crucial victory in their quest to win this tournament! Join us back in a few hours as we bring you the second game of Super Sunday LIVE!
Until then, this is Anirudh Modi, signing off along with my colleague Raju Khariya! See you on the next one!
Khaled Ahmed (Player of the Match): "As I said in the last match, we were thinking about the next match and we won and this time too we are looking forward to the next one. My wife always tells me 'you are the best' and before this one she called and said that 'you will be the Man of the Match.' I was only think about building up dots and put them under pressure.
Player of the Match: Khaled Ahmed
11:05 PM IST, 1:35 PM Local Time | What an end to a thrilling game! Rangpur Riders reign supreme over the Hobart Hurricanes as the former wins the game by a single run!
Hobart Hurricanes won the toss and elected to bowl first, and a solid bowling effort saw them restrict Rangpur Riders to 151/6 at the end of their 20 overs! Ibrahim Zadran led the run-scoring from the front with 43 runs but it was Mayers' unbeaten knock of 67 runs that saw Rangpur breach the 150 run-mark!
For Hobart, Usama Mir was their best bowler with the figures of 3/15 from 4 overs.
Come the chase, Kyle Mayers gave Rangpur the perfect start with the wicket of Bhanuka Rajapaksa in the first over of the match! However, things looked to swing back in Hobart's favor when Ben McDermott played a free flowing knock at the top but was eventually dismissed for 34 runs from 19 balls.
From there on, the wickets kept tumbling at regular intervals for Hobart with batters failing to convert starts into partnerships. Mohammad Nabi stood tall for Hobart with 44 runs from 36 balls and his partnership with Odean Smith looked set to guide them home but Khaled Ahmed and the Rangpur bowlers had other ideas as they kept chipping away with wickets to pull the match back for their team and eventually seal the victory on the last ball of the match!
Khaled Ahmed was the star of the show with 4/26 against his name in 4 overs. While, Iftikhar Ahmed contributed with 2 wickets and the trio of Omarzai, Mayers and Rakibul picked up a wicket each to round off a match-winning bowling effort!
In the end, the momentum swung like a pendulum through out the match with both teams competing well for victory but only one team could take home the points and today they were the Rangpur Riders!
1W WICKET! RUN OUT! Hobart Hurricanes are all out! Omarzai wins it for Rangpur Riders! Length delivery, on the off stump, slaps it down the ground, and the sweeper is quick enough to get across and throw it back to the bowler's end to affect a run out and win his team the game by a solitary run! Absolutely thrilling game!