|| CF Correspondent ||

Chittagong Vikings superlative run in the ongoing Bangladesh Premier League ended as they as they lost to Dhaka Dynamites six wickets in the Eliminator game at Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium on Monday.

Vikings can surely leave the tournament with holding their head high as they came this far despite not being considered to be force to reckon with at the start of BPL considering the strength of their squad.

Though they failed to match against Dynamites in the qualifier as the home team outplayed them in all three departments but it can’t take their achievement by any means as they ran through some big teams on the back of collective effort.

"We certainly had the belief that we can achieve something in this BPL,’’ Mushfiqur told reporters during the post match press conference at Mirpur on Monday.

"We were not considered as a big force on pen and paper but we had the faith that we can do it,’’ he said.  We did not play with any pressure and that probably played a big part in our advancement,’’ he said.

Mushfiqur added that he was impressed with some of their local performers but insisted that some of their foreign recruits did not perform as per their expectations.

Batsman Yasir Ali can be considered a big revelation in the tournament along with pace bowler Mohammad Khaled and Naeem Hasan for the franchise but on the same note Sikandar Raza and Cameron Delport remained a shadow of their past.

"I think Yasir played really well but if he could perform in the same till the end it would have served us better,’’ said Mushfiqur.

But some of our foreign recruits just did not meet our expectations for example Sikandar Raza played well for us last year and we retained him for that reason though he failed to perform. Delport performed well in the previous year for Dynamites but could not meet our expectations this season,’’ he said adding that he was pretty impressed with the way Robbie Frylinck performed for them in the tournament.

Mushfiqur added that they didn’t agree that they lost the momentum in their home town where they lost three matches on a trot before winning against Dynamites to book a berth in the final following their five wins from opening six games.

"I don’t think we lost the momentum there. Probably the wicket in Dhaka suited us better than that of Chittagong because if you consider our strength it was more favourable for us,’’ said Mushfiqur.