Chittagong Kings will battle with Khulna Tigers in Qualifier -2 match of the Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) Cricket on Wednesday (February 5).
The match will kick-off at 6:30 pm at the home of Bangladesh Cricket-- Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium in Mirpur.
The winners of the match will earn the rights to play in the final against defending champions Fortune Barishal on February 7 at the same venue.
Tamim Iqbal –led Fortune Barishal reached the final of the ongoing seven-team BPL for the 2nd consecutive times crushing Chittagong Kings by nine wickets with 16 balls remaining in the Qualifier-1 Monday evening.
National all-rounder Mehidy Hasan Miraz-led Khulna Tigers stayed in the title race eliminating Rangpur Riders also by nine wickets in the Eliminator on Monday afternoon
On completion of 12 league basis matches earlier, Fortune Barisal finished top securing 18 points with net run rate of 1.302 while Chittagong Kings became 2nd collecting 16 points with net run rate of 1.395 to play in the Qualifiers -1.
Rangpur Riders was placed 3rd also with 16 points with net run rate of 0.596 while Khulna Tigers finished 4th securing 12 points having a run rate of 0184 to play in the eliminators.
BPL Cricket: Fortune Barishal will play Chittagong Kings in Qualifier 1
After the league matches, both the Chittagong Kings and Rangpur Riders have secured 16 points each, but, Chittagong Kings finished 2nd to reach qualifiers-1 by virtue of better net run rate and Rangpur Riders went down to the 3rd slot to play in the eliminator.
Three other teams of the seven-team BPL —Durbar Rajshahi (12 Pts), Dhaka Capitals (6 Pts) and and Sylher Strikers (4 Pts) –were eliminated from the league.