After defeating Perth, Bangladesh HP kept one foot in the semis

Bangladesh High Performance (HP) unit lost 3 matches against 2 wins in their first 5 matches in the top end series. So HP team had no choice but to win against Perth Scotchers to survive in the semis. In the end, Bangladesh left the field with a smile on Mahfuzur Rahman Rabbi's cameo. With this victory, Akbar Ali's team kept one foot in the semis.

Perth scored 129 runs after losing 5 wickets in the scheduled 20 overs after losing the toss and batting in Darwin on Saturday (August 17). In response, HP reached the port of victory after losing 7 wickets in 19 overs in 3 balls.

Bangladesh did not make a good start chasing a small target. Tanjid Tamim returned to the dressing room with 1 run off 5 balls. The opening pair broke for 4 runs on his departure. Parvez Hossain Emon could not open the account of runs despite playing 9 balls. Ariful Islam couldn't benefit by going down to four. This young batsman returned with 2 runs off 5 balls.

HP lost 3 wickets for 15 runs in helpless surrender of the top order batsmen. Akbar Ali and Shamim Hossain pulled the team out of such a situation. The team returned to the match with their pair of 39 runs for the fourth wicket. Shamim returned with 16 runs off 17 balls. 35 runs from 33 balls came from Akbar's bat.

After Akbar's return, Rabbi took responsibility and batted. This young batsman played an unbeaten innings of 32 runs off 13 balls. HP adds the winning equation with his brilliant cameo.

Before that, Perth got the capital to fight thanks to Tyago Willey's 56 and Baxter Holt's 34 runs. Ripon Mondal and Rakibul Hasan took two wickets each for HP. Moreover, Abu Haider Rony got a wicket.