BPL week three: Shakib helps Rangpur go top; Pakistan players exit for PSL

Rangpur Riders won both their games in the third week of the BPL to take pole position in the points table. They have Chattogram Challengers for company at 10 points, with defending champions Comilla Victorians on eight points from one fewer outing. Khulna Tigers dropped points for the first time this week, while Sylhet Strikers picked up two wins - both against Durdanto Dhaka. Here are some of the highlights from the week gone by. Babar, Rizwan, Malik, Wasim, Nawaz leave for PSL While on a high, Rangpur, as different groups, should hold on for the departure of the Pakistan players. PSL groups will anticipate that they should show up this week, with the opposition beginning on February 17. Any semblance of Babar Azam, Mohammad Rizwan, Shoaib Malik, Mohammad Wasim and Mohammad Nawaz will leave the BPL. They are probably not going to return as the BPL closes on Walk 1, in the PSL season. Among the Pakistan players, Malik had seven days to recall. He got back to the BPL to rejoin Fortune Barishal after the two gatherings had a short aftermath. Malik took 2 for 24 preceding finishing off a tight game against then association pioneers Khulna Tigers with an unbeaten 25-ball 41. It was just the subsequent close game in the season. Malik and Mehidy Hasan Miraz took 18 runs off the last finished, bowled by Dasun Shanaka, to dominate the match. The week likewise saw Shakib Al Hasan return as a top-request hitter. He struck 34 off 20 balls at No. 3 preceding taking 3 for 16 in Rangpur's 60-run win against Dhaka. Rangpur likewise squashed Sylhet by 77 runs when they bowled them out for only 85. Aamer Jamal was Comilla's legend in their 34-run win against Khulna. The Pakistan speedy took the season's initial five-for as Comilla chief Litton Das returned among the runs with a 30-ball 45. Comilla additionally bowled out Chattogram Challengers for 72 to win by seven wickets. Hitter of the week - Mohammad Naim The Catch 22 that is Mohammad Naim went on at this BPL. He has struck 12 sixes, the most among the Bangladeshi hitters. He has given Dhaka various great beginnings, however his in general BPL numbers this season stand at 192 runs in seven innings, with a 125.49 strike rate. It should be baffling for Naim that he can't turn that corner to raise enormous scores as an opener, especially in a T20 World Cup year with Bangladesh actually searching for huge hitters up top. Bowler of the week - Aamer Jamal Jamal followed up his heroics in Australia with figures of 5 for 23 in his last appearance for Comilla, against Khulna. He eliminated the perilous Evin Lewis, prior to following it up with the wickets of comrades Nawaz and Faheem Ashraf. He wrapped up the five-for with the scalps of Nahidul Islam and Nasum Ahmed.