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MCC take eight-run first innings lead

Draw most likely outcome

Sports Reporter
The visiting Mer lybone Cricket Club (MCC) showed signs of some resilience when m the longer version of tne
game they took a lead of eight runs against Bangladesh on completion of the second day's play of the three day exhibition match at the Dhaka Stadium yesterday.
The success-loin MCC. In a welcome change to an other wise chronic aeries of defeats against different local selections. scored 290 for eight in reply to Bangladesh's 282 at stumps to enjoy a rare edge over their tormentors in the limited^overs matches.
The MCC. who are here on a goodwill tour, had earliter Jost all their three limited-overs matches against the Bangladesh national team without any fight.
However, in their last exhibition match of the 18-day visit In, Bangladesh. MCC. resuming .the second day on 48/2. raced on to amass the commanding total with Laurel Potter hammering an unblemished 88.
But. with Test discard Ian Salisbury, who was unbeaten on 40 along with Cotton (7). resuming the innings on the final day today, the fate of the matdh is certainly heading nowhere, but to a predictable draw.
Salisbury, the blonde legspinner who had earlier played the pivotal role of restricting Bangladesh to a modest total claiming five wickets, kept up the good work with the willow punishing almost all the local bowlers as soon as the new-ball was taken in the 97th over.
He shared 60 runs for the seventh wicket with Williams (26). the only coloured in the all-white MCC outfit, to ensure their side a fairly safe total of 272 before the fatter fell to a brilliant catch at long-on by a diving Mohammad Rafique.
In his quickfire. 44-ball knock Salisbury clubbed seven sparkling hits across the rope.
Sports Reporter
Earlier. Alan Fordham, unbeaten on 35 at the end of the first day's play, resuming the innings on Monday with Potter. was dismissed by Hasibul Hossain Shanto without further addition to his overnight total. The MCC skipper, who went for a half-hearted, square cut of an outgoing delivery from .the most successful local bowler, ended up with a simple catch al point where Rafique glee-
ftfily accepted the offer.
After the early debacle Pot ter. the right-hand middleorder bat. found a doughty partner in Keith Greenfield to put on exactly 100 runs for the fourth wicket before the latter departed for a plucky 44 off 147 balls inclusive of five fours.
Capel, the other member in the team with Test status, was quick to follow his predecessor with the addition of only three runs to the total,when off-spinner Ziaur Rashid Rupom, who scored one of the two centuries featured in the Bangladesh innings, had him caught by Rafique for a duck.
On th^ other hand Potter, who played sensibly in his watchful, innings, added another 46 "runs for the sixth wicket with Hollins before eventually falling 12 runs short of what would have been a well-deserved centOry.
In his marathon 2J0-ball stay at the crease Potter cracked 11 sweetly-timed hits across the rope before Rupom had him caught and bowled for his second scalp.
Shanto. the pick among the local bowlers, then removed Hollins (28) with a gem of an yorker for his second victims
of the day The tall new-ball bowler, who had earlier captured both the MCC wickets on the first day finished with four for 60'in his 18 overs.
With the ongoing World Cup being beamed live on TV the niatcn was attended by barely a couple of hundred spectators including journalists.
The match is* being played on innings basis and-not for 90-overs a side with each team
batting two innings as inadvertently reported tn this column yesterday.
SCOREBOARD
Scoreboard of the three-day matteh between MCC and Bangladesh at the close of the second day at the Dhaka Stadium yesterday:
BANGLADESH: First inning - 282 all out
MQC: First inning? (overnight score 48 for 2) Gaywood c Pilot b Shanto 3 Fordham c Rupom b Shanto 35 Matson lbw b Shanto 2
Potter c and b Rupom 88
Greenfield c Rupom b Rafique 44 Capel c Rafique b Rupom 0
Hollins lbw b Shanto 28
Williams c Rafique b Nannu , 26
Salisbury not out 40
Gofton not out ' 7
Extras': (b-6. lb-8. wb-1. nb-2) 17
Total: (for 8 wkts) 290
Fall of wickets: 1-28; 2-38: 3-50; 4-150: 5-153; 6-199: 7-212: 8-272
Bowling: O M R W
Shanto 18 5 60 4
Anisur li 2 42 0
Rafique' 35 11 62 1
Saiful 11 5 23 0
AtharAJi 4, 2 12 0
Rupom 18 4 48 2
Nannu 9 1 29 1
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