The 4th match of Bangladesh Premier League 2023 is scheduled to play between Fortune Barishal and Sylhet Strikers on Saturday, 7th January 2023 at Shere Bangla National Stadium, Dhaka.

Shakib Al Hasan is going to lead the Fortune Barishal in this edition of BPL. The batting order of this team is strong and experianced and they also had picked some best bowlers for this tournament. Saif Hasan and Ibrahim Zadran will open the batting inning of Fortune Barishal. Salman Hassan, Haider Ali, Iftikar Ahmed, and the skipper, Shakib Al Hasan will be handling the middle batting order of the Barishal. The bowling unit of this team is also in strong hands. Kesrick Williams is the leading bowler of this team.

Kesrick Williams will have the help of some other best bowlers of T20 cricket like Ebadot Hossain, Qazi Onik, Khaled Ahmed, Usman Qadir, and Sunzamul Islam. Rahkeem Cornwall was just outstanding in the recent season of CPL and he is now the part of the squad of the Barishal. We are sure that he will perform well in the conditions of Bangladesh. Chaturanga de Silva is the other all-rounder in the squad of this team. Fortune Barishal were the runner up team of the previous season of BPL and we are sure that they will also perform well in this tournament as the batting and bowling units of this team are very strong for this season of BPL.

Sylhet Strikers were not good in the previous edition of BPL but now they had a good start to this tournament and won their very first match against Chattogram Challengers with a handsome margin. The batting order of the Strikers is in good hands of Najmul Hossain Shanto, Shamsur Rahman, Towhid Hridoy, Ryan Burl, and Mohammad Haris while Rubel Hossain, Rahman Raja, Nabil Samad, Mashrafe Mortaza, and Mohammad Amir are handling the bowling unit of this team. They were just good in the first match where they leaked only 89 runs in 20 overs.

Rejaur Rahman Raja was the most successful and highest wicket-taker from their side with four wickets to his name in four overs against just 14 runs. Mohammad Amir also performed well with the ball and picked two wickets in four overs while had was charged for just seven runs. Colin Ackermann and Mortaza picked one wicket each while Imad Wasim and Thisara Perera were the bowlers who failed to pick any wicket. The batting order of Sylhet Strikers also performed well and chased the target of 90 runs in 12.3 overs. Najmul Hossain Shanto was the most successful and highest run-scorer from their side who remained not out after scoring 43 runs. He faced 41 balls and smashed three boundaries and one huge six. Zakir Hasan scored 27 runs while Mushfiqur Rahim scored six runs.

According to our match prediction, Fortune Barishal is the favorite team to win this match. Many factors make Fortune Barishal a favorite team to win this match.

• Fortune Barishal has a strong batting order in their squad
• Sylhet Strikers won the first match and will be confident about this match
• The batting order of Sylhet Strikers also performed well in the first match
• The bowling unit of the Strikers is also strong
• Sylhet Strikers had a decent record while playing against Barishal

Sylhet Strikers is overall a strong team in this tournament, so the winning chances of today’s match for Sylhet Strikers have been increased. The equation of winning the chances of both teams for today’s match is mentioned as under.

Sylhet Strikers have a 56% chance to win this match
Fortune Barishal shave a 44% chance to win this match

The toss is playing an important role in the result of all matches of BPL as we had seen in the previous matches. According to toss prediction, the team who will win the toss may choose field first.

The 4th match of BPL season 2023 is going to be held at Shere Bangla National Stadium, Dhaka. The pitch at the stadium is considered to be decent for batting but it will offer some help to the spinners like every other surface in the country. A score of around 190 should be considered par at the venue. Average first inning score on this venue is 152 runs and average second inning score is 130 runs. This venue has a highest total recorded of 211 runs in 20 overs.

The weather forecast of Dhaka for this match is not good. There are some chances of rain but we are hoping for a full match to watch.

Captain: Shakib Al Hasan
Vice-Captain: Imad Wasim
R Gurbaz, Mahmudullah, N Hossain Shanto, Ryan Burl, Ibrahim Zadran, R Hossain, Mohammad Amir, Naveen ul-Haq, R Rahman Raja

• Date: Saturday, 7th January 2023
• Time: 12:30 PM GMT / 06:30 PM LOCAL / 06:00 PM IST

• Stadium: Shere Bangla National Stadium
• Location: Dhaka, Bangladesh
• Opened: 2006
• Capacity: 25,000
• Ends: Ispahani End, Aqua Paints End
• Time Zone: UTC +06:00
• Other Sports: it is home to Football
• Floodlights: Yes

• Total matches: 59
• Matches won batting first: 29
• Matches won bowling first: 30
• Average 4th Inns scores: 144
• Average 4th Inns scores: 124
• Highest total recorded: 211/4 (20 Ov) by BAN vs WI
• Lowest total recorded: 60/10 (16.5 Ov) by NZ vs BAN
• The highest score chased: 194/4 (16.4 Ov) by SL vs BAN
• The lowest score defended: 127/9 (20 Ov) by BAN vs AUS

Shakib Al Hasan, Anamul Haque, Rahkeem Cornwall, Chaturanga de Silva, Ebadot Hossain, Fazle Rabbi, Haider Ali, Ibrahim Zadran, Iftikhar Ahmed, Kamrul Islam, Karim Janat, Khaled Ahmed, Mahmudullah, Mehidy Hasan Miraz, Mohammad Wasim, Naveen-ul-Haq, Kusal Perera, Qazi Onik, Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Saif Hassan, Salman Hossain, Sunzamul Islam, Usman Qadir, Kesrick Williams.