Opener Abid Hanif hammered a brilliant century to guide Lalmatia Club to a facile 47-run vic tory over Agrani Bank in their opening relegation league engagement of the’Janakantha Premier cricket league played at the Dhanmondi Cricket Stadium yesterday.

The right-handed Pakistani batsman scored 119 as Lalma-tia. opting to bat first, mustered a commendable total of 221 for seven in the stipulated 50 overs.

firmly placed on 217 for six.

In his 156-ball innings, the free stroking batsman from Karachi, hit two sixes and 12 boundaries to score the eighth century of the league.

Among others, middle order Chayan scored,£7. runs while openers Kirari cohtributdd 19.

Off-spinner Fahim Muntasir was the most successful bowler for Agrani Bank finishing with 4 for 46 while Shamsul Arefin and Rayan captured one wicket each.

In reply, the bankers were bundled out for 174 in 44.3

LALMATIA CLUB: 221 for seven in 50 overs (Abid

Hanif 119. Chayan 27. Kiran 15; Fahim 4/46)

AGRANI BANK: 174 all out in 44.3 overs (Ziauddin 44, Hannan 29. Sajjad 28: Piyal 4/28. Biplab 2/36)

Result : Lalmatia Club won by 47 runs.

ABID HANIF ....119

Coming to open with Kiran with whom he added 54 runs for the first wicket. Abid remained on the crease for more than three hours and took his side past the 200 mark before he was out in the fourth ball of the final over, leaving Lalmatia

overs. Medium pacers Abu Hamid Piyal. the man behind Agrani Bank's debacle ripped through the top orders, finishing with 4 for 28 from his ten overs while Biplab took two for 36.

Skipper and middle order Ziauddin Shovon top scored for Agrani Bank with 44 off 60 balls while opener Hannan Sarkar (29) and lower middle order Sajjad Qadir (28) where the other notable run getters.

Lalmatia. with their third win in 12 matches, also took revenge on their counterparts to whom they lost their first round match by the huge margin of 121.