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Mash, Samuels drive Comilla

Sports Reporter
There were two questions that were hovering around following the
Comilla Victorians’s five-wicket win over the Khulna Titans at Mirpur yesterday.
Firstly, how much of a chance do the Victorians, currently placed sixth, actually have to make it through to the play-offs? Secondly, can the Titans who are currently placed third, seal one of the top two positions?
With one more game to go, Mashrafe Bin Mortaza's Victorians face a steep task. They currently have eight points from 11 matches. To qualify, they will need the Rangpur Riders to firstly lose against the Barisal Bulls and then they will need the Rajshahi Kings to lose against the Chittagong Vikings. And finally, they will then need to beat the Riders by a huge margin themselves.
If everything goes as per the above stipulation, then Rajshahi, Rangpur, Comilla and Barisal will have 10 points each and the team with the highest run-rate will qualify. Even in this case, Comilla are behind as their run-rate is in the negative. Rajshahi on the other hand have a positive run-rate and are the likeliest of the four to qualify.
The case of the KhulnaTitans' finishing in the top two is a lot simpler. All they need to do is beat the Chittagong Vikings by a huge margin.
But the way Mahmudullah Riyad's Khulna played yesterday suggests that they have a long way to go. Their batsmen found life difficult against a pumped-up Victorians attack and once again were over-dependent on Riyad.
Batting first, the Titans managed to post just 141 on a good batting track with Mashrafe Bin Mortaza taking three wickets.
Riki Wessels was the first one to depart as his impatient slog against
Mohammad Sharif resulted in him getting bowled for 4 in the third over. Four overs later Abdul Majed edged a Mashrafe delivery onto the stumps. Mashrafe, who was bowling with a short run-up due to a hamstring issue, got two more crucial wickets during his second spell when he dismissed Hasanuzzaman and Nicholas Pooran in overs number 11 and 13. Those two dismissals pegged Khulna back and although Mahmudullah remained till the end with a 38-ball 40, he was not able to accelerate as much and Khulna were restricted to 141. Rashid Khan, Sharif and Mohammad Saiftiddin took one wicketeach.
While Pakistan's Junaid Khan did dismiss his countryman Ahmed Shehzad in the first over after the exchange, Imrul Kayes and Marlon Samuels put up a 49-run stand for the second wicket to steady the ship. The partnership ended in the eighth over after Imrul was caught at long-on in the eighth over for 20.
Three overs later Mosharraf Hossain dismissed Khalid Latif and all of a sudden the Victorians seemed in trouble at 62 for three in 11 overs.
That is when Mashrafe arrived and smashed three sixes during his 11-ball 20 and brought the run-rate under control. While wickets were falling at one end, Samuels kept scoring at the other.
He ended up unbeaten on 69 off 57 balls with eight fours and was the reason why the Victorians ended up getting home. Following the fall of Mashrafe and Nazmul Hossain Shanto, Samuels was joined by Liton Das, who hit five fluent boundaries towards the end and ended up with an 11-ball 24.
Comilla reached home with five wickets and 1.2 overs remaining.