Brothers Union were stretched a I mi by Dhanmondi but champions Abalianl Krtra Ch akra cruised to a predictable. huge wfrl in the two matches of the Navana Premier Division cricket league at two different venues yesterday
Brothers Union subdued a reesty Dhanmondi Club by four wickets at the Dhanmondi Cricket Stadium. Sent in to bat first by Brothers skipper Nurul Abedin Nobel on a bedewed difficult wicket. Dhanmondi could collect 149 from their quota of 45 overs.
Kamrul was the topscorer with 37. garnered off 54 balls with three hits to the fence Paceman Mohammad All clouted a big sixer in a brisk 23 made off 26 bails in the slog overs
Indian Yadav ano' Azam were tt»e two other batsmen to make it to the double figui-es with 18 arid 14 respectively
Brothers long serving Shri Lankan new ball bowler Fernando produced an effective second spell to finish with fig-i ires of three for 32
His partner Golarn Faruq S uru, a former national player, hi awever. had the best analysis of nine overs, three maidens, on e wicket for fifteen runs.
Amal, the other Shri Lankan, bag ged two for 30 while nplnner Azh ar Hossain Shantu and Rah ul claimed one apiece.
VTien Brothers went In to get 150 for a win. Dhanmondi seamers retaliated with veteran capt-ain. Jahangir Shah Badshah. a quality bov/ler In his prime, handling his limited resources well.
Zaliid Razzak Masurn. who scored a super 77 in the last match. departed early, bowled by Vinay for 13 and Yadav ac counted for Nobel for 18 only to reduce Brothers to 54 for two.
To add to the miseries of the Gopibagh side. Amal was run out for a duck bringing In young Al Shahriar Rokon at the wicket to pair with his senior partner Habibul Bashar Suman, the young stylish right hander.
The two added 61 runs for the fourth wicket to make things hum again. Suman left for 43 made off 73 balls, embellished with four elegant boundaries while Rokon. the lanky dark athletic youngstef. remained unbeaten on 38 off 53 balls including three hits to the fence.
Although a couple of wickets more were lost. Suru staved unconquered with Rokon to guide Brothers to a iour-wickel victory, their second in a row.
Yadav was the pick of -the Dhanmondi bowlers with excellent figures of one for 14 from nine overs. His compatriot Vinay took one for 18 also from nine overs. Dulu bought two for
14 whfi e Sohel chipped in with one for 24
At I he Dhaka Stadium. Abahani demolished Kalabagan Krtra Chakra by eight wickets in a tho roughly dull one-sided match.
Two ul oppages were the only Interest! ng incidents in a low scoring encounter that saw Abahani waltz to their third consecut Ive wtn in this year s single leaqjue.
Tear g asslng by the members of the la1 w enforcing agency in
the adjoining area caused players t® rush 1 nto the dressing room twice in the pre-lunch session of the ma tch.
Off-spinner Saidul Anam Effe. backed by pace duo of Khairuzzaman Babu and Indian G P Singh, never allowed Kalabagan any headway Only four batsman made it to the double figures, with Bobby, a tailender. hitting 2 1 not out. At the end of the possible 40 overs the Dhanmondi score read too for nine.
Effe had the best figures among the six Abahani bowlers claiming three for 17.
Babu and G P Singh bagged two wickets apiece for 15 and 16 runs respectively
G P Singh, who opened the Abahani Innings with Harunur Rashid Uton. swung a long hop from Dipu Chowdhury down to Gamagee's throat at long leg with the score on one but Faruque with an unbeaten 49 that Included tliree boundaries and a sixer stanched the flow of
adrenalin in Kalabagan bowlers along with Liton. who made a laborious 32.
Illingworth was at the kill along with Faruque when Abahani posted 102 for'two wickets In 25.3 overs.
TODAY'S MATCHES
Mohammedans vs Victoria (Dhaka Stadium)
Biman vs Surjo Tarun (DCS)
Gulshan Youth vs Udity (Mirpur Pallabl)