Rangpur Riders will get the services of their best foreign recruitments- Chris Gayle and Brendon McCullum- before their next match against Comilla Victorians on November 18.

New Zealand stroke-maker McCullum meanwhile arrived in Dhaka to revive the faltering Riders camp, whilst West Indies T20 specialist batsman Chris Gayle is expected to be landed in Bangladesh in the wee hour of today as Riders media manager Shaninan Tanin said.

The team management of the Rangpur Riders believes that the current plight of the Riders BPL campaign will be changed after the arrival of Chris Gayle and Brendon McCullum, the best recruitments of Rangpur.

Rangpur Riders played so far three matches to date but they lost two back-to-back matches following their victory against Rangpur Riders in the opener. Now Riders are languishing at fifth place on the points table with two pints just above Chittagong Vikings (2) and Rajshahi Kings (2).

The BPL franchisee team held their training session at the National Cricket Academy (NCA) yesterday under the guidance of the Australia-born coach Tom Moody.

Riders icon and captain Mashrafe Bin Mortaza also attended the evening session with the other players, hailing from a awareness programme from Baridhara, whereby he told media that they are hopeful of getting positive result after regrouping prior to their next fixture.

“The competition for the next round is tough more for us because we are not in good position on the points table. In that sense, it is disappointing for us,” said Mashrafe Bin Mortaza.

“But we are getting an opportunity for regrouping. If we could be done so and produced positive result that we hope so,” Mashrafe told reporters.

“It is difficult to keep patience in tough time. We have to patience for the six-day-long break in Dhaka leg,” he added.

Citing Chris Gayle and Brendon McCullum are the two leading  batsmen in T20 format, Mashrafe said that their performance depend on their starting how they could adjust on this spin-friendly wickets.  

“Gayle and McCullum are two leading players in Twenty20 cricket,” he said, adding: “It will fully depends on their performance how they start after coming here because batting on Bangladesh wickets is not so easy.”