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Friday, July 11, 2025

Man-of-the-Match Fletcher shines with fifty in winning cause

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Sports Desk
1253 days ago
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DHA­KA, Bangladesh – West In­dies dis­card An­dre Fletch­er slammed a Man-of-the-Match half-cen­tu­ry to pi­lot Khul­na Tigers to a con­vinc­ing nine-wick­et vic­to­ry over Syl­het Sun­ris­ers, and to their third win of the Bangladesh Pre­mier League.

The right-han­der carved out an un­beat­en 71 off 47 de­liv­er­ies as Tigers eas­i­ly chased down a tar­get of 143 with 34 balls to spare at the Shere Bangla Na­tion­al Sta­di­um here Thurs­day.

For Tigers, the vic­to­ry was a cru­cial one com­ing on the heels of their six-run de­feat to Chris Gayle’s For­tune Bar­ishal ear­li­er this week.

They are fourth on six points from six match­es but just two points adrift of lead­ers Comil­la Vic­to­ri­ans, who boast West In­dies off-spin­ner Sunil Nar­ine in their ranks.

Sent in, Sun­ris­ers gath­ered 142 for five off their 20 overs with West In­dies open­er Lendl Sim­mons fail­ing with six, hol­ing out to back­ward square in the sev­enth over.

Strug­gling on 34 for three in the ninth, Sun­ris­ers were lift­ed by Mo­ham­mad Mithun’s 72 off 51 balls, the right-han­der slam­ming half-dozen fours and four six­es in a cru­cial 68-run, fourth wick­et stand with cap­tain Mosad­dek Hos­sain (34).

When new-ball seam­er Khaled Ahmed (2-20) re­turned to ac­count for Mosad­dek, Mithun added a fur­ther 34 for the fifth wick­et with Muk­tar Ali (5 not out) to eke out pre­cious runs late on.

In re­ply, Tigers were ex­pert­ly guid­ed by 34-year-old Fletch­er, the right-han­der punch­ing five fours and five six­es to notch his sec­ond fifty cam­paign and move his runs tal­ly be­yond the 200 mark from six in­nings.

Ig­nored since be­ing picked in the T20 World Cup squad but fail­ing to play a sin­gle game dur­ing the failed cam­paign, Fletch­er in­spired a 99-run first wick­et stand with Soumya Sarkar (43) which erased any hopes Sun­ris­ers har­boured of vic­to­ry.

The Grena­di­an brought up his half-cen­tu­ry off 34 balls in the 11th over and af­ter los­ing Soumya a cou­ple of balls lat­er, added a fur­ther 45 runs with This­ara Per­era (22 not out) in an un­bro­ken sec­ond wick­et stand.

In the oth­er match at the venue, West In­dies bats­man Chad­wick Wal­ton made a three-ball ‘duck’ as Chat­togram Chal­lengers crashed to a nine-wick­et de­feat to Vic­to­ri­ans, af­ter mus­ter­ing on­ly 138 for eight from their 20 overs.

Off-spin­ner Nar­ine went wick­et-less from his four overs which leaked 32 runs.

CMC


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