Correct: Chittagong Kings OUT and Barisal Burners IN

I am annoyed!! really annoyed! Every hours different news are coming from BPL. Now it has been finalized that Barisal will play in the semi. Sorry guys for this mess!

BPL Stats: Most Runs, Wickets and all

Most Run Scorer: Kamran Akmal - 365 Runs - Sylhet Royals
Most Wicket Taker: Mohammed Sami - 17 Wickets - Durontu Rajshahi
Most Dismissal: Sagir Hosain Pavel - 8
Most Catches: Mohammed Ashraful - 7 catches - Dhaka Gladiators
Most 6s: Chris Gayle - 26 - Barisal Burners
Most 4s: Kamran Akmal - 41 - Sylhet Royals
Best Strike Rate: Andre Russel - 196.16

BPL Teams adding more new players

Dhaka Gladiators:
A lot has been talked about Afridi and Dhaka Gladiators affairs!! Again Dhaka Gladiators is try to bring Afridi. DG is very desperate to add Three Pakistani players - Afridi, Ajmal and new sensation Zia to their team. Kirean Pollard is leaving Dhaka Team today.

Chittagong Kings:
Umar Akmal and Wahab Riaz will play for Chittagong Kings. This has not been confirmed from official source.

Royal Bengal Khulna:
Pakistan National team player, Mohammed Hafeez might join Khulna for the final stage of the tournament.

BPL Update: After all the drama

Okay! Yesterday was the day full of drama, suspense and marathon meetings!! Only one reason was behind all these, that was "TOP 4" spot. Who is going to play semi-finals!! was the question of the day. Durontu Rajshahi booked their ticket to semi-final without any equation game. Other teams had 'if' in their mind. Dhaka Gladiators and Royal Bengal Khulna also booked their place afterwards. Then real drama unfolded. Barisal Burners thought their calculated win against Chittagong Kings within 16 overs will give them a place in top 4. Because, that win placed them in 4th place according to run rate. However, BPL technical committee declared that Chittagong Kings will go in to Semi Finals. According to BPL rules, 
If any two teams has same points after group stage then confirmation will be made bt head to head results of the teams. (The team that has more wins will go through). 


Chittagong Kings has 3 wins against Barisal Burners. In this case Chittagong has got the 4th spot. 


First Semi Final

• Duronto Rajshahi vs Barisal Burners 
  
  Feb 28, 2012 14:30:00 pm (2:30 PM BDT | 8:30 AM GMT)
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  Second Semi Final
  
  
  Khulna Royal Bengals vs Dhaka Gladiators
   
  Feb 28, 2012 18:30:00 pm (6:30 PM BDT | 12:30 PM GMT)

Chittagong Kings retains top spot

Chittagong Kings comfortably won by 8 wickets. They had 44 balls to spare. Nasir Jamshed 81 and Jahurul 41 made it easy for Kings after wonderful bowling display and very tight fielding.

Man of the Match: Nasir Jamshed

Barisal Burners innings (20 overs maximum)
                                                                                       R       B    4s    6s    SR
Ahmed Shehzad c Mahmudullah b Arafat Sunny         7        8    1      0    87.50
CH Gayle retired hurt                                                  30      16    2      3    187.50
Mithun Ali† c †Jahurul Islam b Enamul Haque jnr      8      10    1      0    80.00
BJ Hodge c Ziaur Rahman b Bravo                            38      40    1      2    95.00
Mominul Haque c Bravo b Enamul Haque jnr           10      15    0      1    66.66
Alauddin Babu b Cooper                                              0        3    0       0    0.00
Shahriar Nafees* c Roy b Cooper                                4        9    0       0    44.44
Yasir Arafat not out                                                    13       13    1      0    100.00
Kabir Ali not out                                                          9         7    0      1    128.57
Extras (lb 3, w 2, nb 1) 6

Total (6 wickets; 20 overs) 125 (6.25 runs per over)
Did not bat Sohag Gazi, Nazmul Islam

Bowling                                                             O     M     R     W     Econ
DJ Bravo                                                            4      0      42     1     10.50 (1w)
Farhad Reza                                                       4      0      23     0       5.75
Arafat Sunny                                                      3      0       17     1       5.66
K Cooper                                                           4      0       20     2       5.00 (1nb, 1w)
Enamul Haque jnr                                             2      0       12     2       6.00
M Muralitharan                                                 2      1       6       0       3.00
Mahmudullah                                                    1      0       2       0       2.00

Chittagong Kings innings (target: 126 runs from 20 overs)       R      B     4s    6s     SR
Nasir Jamshed not out                                                                 81    47    10    2      172.34
Jahurul Islam† c Mominul Haque b Hodge                                41    21      5    1      195.23
K Cooper b Nazmul Islam                                                           1      4      0    0        25.00
Arafat Sunny not out                                                                   3      4      0    0        75.00
Extras 0

Total (2 wickets; 12.4 overs) 126 (9.94 runs per over)
Did not bat Mahmudullah*, JJ Roy, Farhad Reza, DJ Bravo, Ziaur Rahman, Enamul Haque jnr, M Muralitharan
Fall of wickets 1-97 (Jahurul Islam, 8.6 ov), 2-100 (Cooper, 9.6 ov)

Bowling                                                   O   M  R   W   Econ
Yasir Arafat                                              2   0    9    0      4.50
Kabir Ali                                                  2   0   25   0    12.50
Sohag Gazi                                              2    0   32   0    16.00
Nazmul Islam                                       3.4    0   28   1      7.63
Alauddin Babu                                        1    0     7   0      7.00
BJ Hodge                                                2    0    25   1    12.50