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Moni makes defeat digestible

Star Reporter
The Bangladesh Cricket Control Board (BCCB) Sek i lion did well to narrow the nvirgln of a defeat
the foomed large kt the lunch break, thanks mainly io a belated blitzkrieg by Enamul Huq Monl and the cultured batsmanship of Aminul Islam
Defeat was a foregone con chioton when four wicket* fell tn ■ heap as the BCCB batsmen, laden with the unenviable burden of gelling 385 runs for victory in this two-day cxhlbi Uon match with the visiting West Bengal side multiplied their problems with uncalled for adventurism and carelc**
Making 385 In 80 overs against an experienced If not overwhelmingly powerful side like the CAB was not easy to say the least, but the all to la miliar recrudescence to crumbling against spin and when under pressure was par; Hcularhr galling In the end Mon! the southpaw who plays for Bangladesh Btman In the local league. Illuminated the dark patches created first by the poor show with the bat and later a crowd trouble that followed after the controversial dismissal of Bulbul. The fact that the CAB bowlers. Anbp Das In particular, was trying to buy the wickets could take nothing away from Monl's credit: he took the challenge and s^l the stands ablaze with daring strokeplay that earned him five sixes (two In a row) off stow left-armcr Anup Das. who showed a Bedlesque generosity tn Inviting batsmen to toft him in the air.
BCCB progressed well till the serene silence of the morning was broken by the , tick of opener Nurul Abedin's bat with the score showing a hea|thy looking 60 from 18 overs He failed to gel to the pitch while stretching forward
to a (lighted delivery I rum Anup that turned frac is-oally more than the balsman had •■peered and Deba ng Gandhi at silly point snapped him up without any hi*'
Radqul Alam. looking unusually sedate, played one from the same bowler down the wrong Une. perhaps, to be bowled for eight. Axhar Hossain Shantoc had left ear Iler run out for a well-made 33 spangled with three four*
MONL.fine 131
There was nothing new tn the nature of the dismissal as the eternally callous batsman started, halted and then started, to be left hopelessly stranded. One 'of the main drawbacks of our batsmen Is they never bother aboula adapling themselves to the circumstances
Akram Khan another In form batsman like. Rafiq IukI ihe courage and ihe wisdom to iry a cut against the spin of Sharadtndu Mukhrrlcc and made the score card look a sickly 77 for four
Aminul Islam Bulbul and Enamul Huq Mom started paying strokes all around the wicket although West Bengal skipper Ashok Malhotra had people hemmed around the oal Both of them cut savagely at anything short outside the offs tump and Bulbul In purlieu U«r offered the batsmen back 1n l he pavilion a lesson by using his feet to the spinner* preying on the nerves in lurnew wilh the close-In fielders Muni was lucky when his sweep soared high and Indu Bhushan Roy at deep backward square leg grassed the catch, a lapse which ensured a toil for them under the sun.
Bulbul's dismissal with the total on 181 sparked off a most unsavoury sight In the galleries as angry spectators held up play by Invading the gn>und protesting the dismissal, given caught behind by umpire Mansur Milky off bowler Malhotra. The gesture of dts gust and dissatisfaction by a normally phlegmatic Bulbul created a commotion unex pected and unseemly of an exhibition match like thia. The Incident forcing an early tea. also triggered off a collapse In the BCCB batting as skipper Nannu. Shovon and Dulu left In no time to bring the defeat nearer. But Saiful Islam, the medium pacer. hung around as Monl blazed away to a sclntll lating 131. studded with, four fours and five sixes, before holing oul to Defonlk Sengupta while trying his sixth sixer.
Hia was the last wicket to fall in the 78th over with the score on 302. to signal the end of a match that will remain etched tn the memory for the phenomenal success of the
left-handed batsmen, (or whom H was his maiden cen tu»y
SharadHxlu and Anup were the most successful of the West Bengal bowk-r* with fig ures of three for 109 and three for 104 respectively.
Rata Venkat who scored 154 for CAB. and Monl were declared the joint men of the match
Jagmohan Dalmiya execu live president of the CAB. gave away the prtars