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Bangladesh’s third in a row

Sports Reporter
Bangladesh have ensured a place In the Asia Cup cricket champlo nship to be held in Pakistan next
October
Superb exhibition of medium pace bowling by Saiful Islam of OMCC and Jahangir Talukdar Oulu of Mohamme dan* helped defending champion* Bangladesh to lift the third South East Asian cricket championship with a six wicket victory over Hong Kong at the Singapore Cricket Chib ground yesterday
Bangladesh, who had won the first two tournament*, held In Dhaka In 1986 and tn Hong Kong In 1989. booked Hong Kong for 79 as well as a place alongside Pakistan and Shri Lanka tn the fifth Asia Cup to be held in Pakistan
Bangladesh captain Mtnhazu) Abedin Nannu set the mood for the victors by win ning the toss and Hong Kong the runners up of the last two tournaments, were on the dock right from the word go.
Hong Kong opener P Fordham was the first to go when Athar Alt Khan snapped him up off paceman Saiful Islam for seven, with the total reading 17
Saiful Islam then removed Eames for two and Dulu, the left-arm seamer, got into the act by dismissing Stearns. Foster was clean bowled by Dulu for nought and a Saiful outswinger found the edge of the bat of Davies.
Beaman hung around for some time to score ten.
Opener Atkinson was the top scorer with 23 including two hits to the fence.
Tailender R Fotheringam
threw hi* bat around to score a quick 15 with the help of one sixer and one four before hoi Ing out to Saiful Islam off Azhar Hossain Shantu
Saiful Islam had the Magical analysis of four wicket* for 14 runs Dulu also claimed four al belt expensively giving away 31 runs In the process
Shantu could bowl only five balls as the Hong Kong Innings folded for 79 tn 39.5 overs
The Bangladesh batsmen could not have asked for a better gift from their fellow bowlers as they had to score only 80 runs tn 50 overs
Azhar Hossain Shantu and Faruque Ahmed went after the Hong Kong bowling with the latter particularly in a threat ent ng mood.
While Shantu, the Mohammedan opener took some time to find his timing Faruque unleashed a flurry of sweetly-timed strokes.
Faruque scored 42 with the help of seven fours and a six before falling leg before to Sujananl
Although skipper Nannu
and Athar fell cheaply. Bangladesh had the match wrapped up In 23 3 overs, for the loss of four wickets with Bulbul and Akram Khan remaining there- at the kill
After Faruque Ahmed opener Azhar Hossain Shantu was the only other batsmen to reach the double figures apart from ten by Mr Sundries
1. Beaman stuck to his gun manfully claiming two for 12
Sujananl and Crowe got one apiece among the Hong Kong bowlers.
Saiful Islam, the young Bangladesh medium pacer was named man-of-the-match for his superb bowling feat.
Bangladesh High Commissioner Giasuddin Ahmed Chowdhury witnessed the match and presented Saiful and Jahangir Talukdar Dulu SI00 cheques for their fine show with the leather
Amlnul Huq Mont secretary of Bangladesh Cricket Control Board congratulated Bangla desh team over telephone.