Sylhet Sixers vs Rangpur Riders Prediction

SYL Team News

David Warner plays his final game for the Sylhet Sixers, having been cleared by the Australian Cricket Board to play the two final games in Sylhet after picking up an elbow injury when these teams last met. He showed no ill effects from the injury as he hit 63 from 43 balls against Dhaka Dynamites. The Sixers replaced Sohail Tanvir with Mohammad Irfan for that game against the Dynamites, while Al-Amin Hossain came in for Mehedi Hasan as they tweaked the dynamic of their bowling attack. The changes did not pay off, however, and could be reversed.

SYL Key Players

David Warner will be a big loss when he returns home due to the elbow injury he suffered when these two teams last met. The Australian has scored three half-centuries, including scores of 61* and 63 in his last two innings, and will want to sign off with another big score.

Liton Das appears to have rediscovered his best batting form of late too, with 70 against Rangpur Riders when these teams last met in BPL 2019

Nicolas Pooran will want to recapture the form he showed in Dhaka, meanwhile, having scored 41, 52 and 72 in his three innings in the first phase of fixtures. He is yet to repeat that in Sylhet so far.

Taskin Ahmed claimed 2-34 when these teams last met and has ten wickets in the tournament so far, including 4-28 in the win against Chittagong Vikings. Nepalese teenage superstar Sandeep Lamichhane took 1-18 in the win against Rangpur Riders, meanwhile, having started the tournament with 2-16 against Comilla Victorians.

SYL Team Form

Sylhet Sixers have won just two of their six matches so far, after losing to Dhaka Dynamites last time out for the second time in the tournament. They won one of their three matches in Dhaka, and have won one from three in Sylhet so far too – though that win was against Rangpur Riders when these sides last met.

After being bowled out for 68 on their way to an eight-wicket loss against Comilla Victorians previously, the Sixers were much improved against Rangpur – Liton Das hitting 70 and David Warner 61 not out in a total of 187/5, on their way to a 27-run win.

Warner, despite his elbow injury, then scored 63 from 43 balls in the game against Dhaka that followed, but the total of 158/8 proved well below par. Mohammad Irfan claimed two wickets in reply, but the Dynamites recovered from 37/3 to claim a six-wicket win with 18 balls remaining.