Comilla Victorians picked up a comfortable 70-run win against Rangpur Riders on Friday to extend their winning streak to nine matches and reach the playoffs as one of the top two teams of the league stage.
The win took Comilla to 18 points, level with Sylhet Strikers at the top, who edged ahead on net run rate. These two teams will face off in the first qualifier on Sunday.
Rangpur, on the other hand, will face Fortune Barishal in the eliminator on the same day.
The winner of the eliminator will face the side losing in the first qualifier in the second qualifier on Tuesday. The winner of the first qualifier will go straight into the final, which will be held on Thursday.
Batting first, Comilla were off to a great start courtesy of Liton Das and Mohammad Rizwan, who put together 43 in five overs before Nurul Hasan Sohan took a brilliant catch to get rid of the latter (24).
Sunil Narine (8) came in and hit back-to-back boundaries before watching his stumps rattled.
Liton was close to his fifty but fell for 47 off 33 balls as he was caught at the deep mid-wicket boundary.
However, it was Jaker Ali Anik (34 off 23 balls) and Khushdil Shah (40* off 20 balls) who took Comilla to 177-5.
In reply, Rangpur were shattered early as they lost four wickets within the powerplay.
They could never recover from that as their top-scorer was Rahmanullah Gurbaz (29), with no other batter going past 20, and only five reaching double figures.