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Abahani coast into final

Sports Reporter
Holders Abahani Krira Chakra majestically marched into the final of the Victory Day cricket tourna-
mcnl with a massive 209-run' victory against the Greater My-menslngh Cricket Club (GMCC) al the Dhaka Stadium yesterday.
All talk, all hopes of GMCC giving a good account of themselves with seasoned Indian batsman Raman Lamba around vanished in the morning with the rapidly progressing Abahani pacernan sending back two • GMCC batsmen —opener Row-nakul Islam Tutul and Ani-suddin Bhuiyan Pika —■ within the first fifty runs of the team.
Pitted against a mind-boggling victory target of 396 for victory in 75 hours, GMCC kept on losing wickets at regular interval .before being all out for 186 in 61.4 overs.
The man on whom so much of a GMCC resurgence depended, Raman I,amba, the Delhi, opener, grafted a face-saving 43 off 64 balls before holing out lo Shri I.ankan test player Athula Satnarasekara off another Shri Lankan, Ashoka
de Silva.
The rest of the GMCC batting just fell away and the fears of an unreasonable collapse struck roots earlier than expected.
Tight bowling by. the Abahani spinners made things all the more difficult for the spiritless GMCC batsmen of whom Mohsin with 35, skipper Tariquzzaman Munir with 28 and Shri Lankan Sanjeeva Wcerasinghe with 20 offered some resistance.
Saidul Anam Effec, the right arm off-splnncr, enjoyed the statistical supremacy among his peers snaring three batsmen at a personal cost of just 20 runs from his quota' of 15 overs.
He was well backed by the right-arm fastish leggie, •Ashoka de Silva who captured ' two wickets for 23 from 13 overs.
Khairuzzaman Babu, Abaha-•hi's lanky ncw-ball bowler, confirmed his continuing improvement with a -haul of three wickets for 30 runs. The young bowler from My men -singh was instrumental behind opening the GMCC batting Inside out in the morning.
With the drought of goodpace bowlers being already felt It was good to see a local lad taking positive strides at filling the void.
Earlier, on Sunday Abahani, put into bat, amassed 395 fqr five wickets with Shovon and Akram hitting 128 and an unbeaten 107 respectively.
Abahani will now meet the winners of the other semifinal between Mohammedan Sporting Club, last year's runners-up, and this year's Damal runners-up Brothers Union.
The two-day second semifinal starts this morning at the Dhaka Stadium.
The final, a 75-overs-a-side contest spread over two days, will start on December 27.