The ground under the feet of the star-studded team Rangpur Riders is slowly getting stronger. In the first match of the day of the Bangladesh Premier League, Rangpur beat Durdanto Dhaka by a big margin and retained the top spot. Rangpur beat Dhaka by a big margin of 60 runs in a great performance.

Dhaka captain Mosaddek Hossain won the toss and decided to field first at the Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium in Mirpur, known as the ' Home of Cricket '. Rangpur got off to a great start with the bats of two openers, Rony Talukdar and Babar Azam. Rony departed after bringing the team 67 runs in the opening pair. Before that, he scored 39 runs with 6 fours and 1 six off 24 balls.

Shakib Al Hasan was down one down. After many days Shakib's bat showed a glimmer of runs. Shakib scored 34 runs off just 20 balls, hitting 1 four and 3 sixes. Although Babar Azam returned to dressing room before his departure. The Pakistani superstar scored 47 runs off 43 balls with 5 fours, barely missing a half-century.

In the end, captain Nurul Hasan Sohan and Mohammad Nabi stormed with the bat. However, Afghan cricketer Azmatullah Omarzai could not benefit much. Omarzai was dismissed for 3 runs off 7 balls. Sohan and Nabi took the team to the huge capital. Sohan scored 16 off 10 balls and Nabi, who hit Taskin Ahmed for three sixes in the last over, scored 29 runs off 16 balls and left the field unbeaten. After losing 4 wickets at the end of scheduled 20 overs, the collection of the one-time champions stood at 175 runs.

Mosaddek took 2 wickets for Dhaka. Besides, Arafat Sunny and Sabbir Hossain took 1 wicket each.

Dhaka stumbled in response. Opener Sabbir Hossain and three-man Saim Ayub returned to dressing room with just 4 runs for the team. But Naim Sheikh handled the situation very well. He kept Dhaka's run wheel moving with aggressive batting. Dhaka scored 32 runs losing 2 wickets in 6 overs of Powerplay.

Naim's rampage continues even at the end of the Powerplay. At the other end, if the batters could not survive, Naeem kept one end and continued to bat with great fluency. Gone very close to fifty. But he could not touch the fifty. Naeem got out with 44 runs off 31 balls. And as a result of his outing, Dhaka's innings is like Saturn.

None of the rest of the batters could do much better. As a result, Dhaka lost wickets one after another and went to the edge of the abyss. In the end, Dhaka scored 115 runs in 18 overs and got all out. Rangpur won easily by 60 runs. Irfan Sukkur scored 21 runs in 15 balls after fighting at the end. Besides, Taskin Ahmed played an innings of 15 runs off 8 balls. Shakib Al Hasan took 3 wickets for Rangpur. Besides, Salman Irshad, Hasan Mahmud and Sheikh Mehdi Hasan took 2 wickets each .

Rangpur Riders won easily. As a result of this victory, Rangpur Riders retained the top position in the points table.