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Premier League

Tarun cross Mohammedan bridge

MSC v Surjo Tarun

Sports Reporter
Surjo Tarun Club crossed a major hurdle in their chase for a maiden title when 1 the new force In the domestic cricket recorded a comprehensive five-wicket win over Mohammedan Sporting Club in a crucial Janakantha Premier Division Cricket League match at the Bangabandhu National Stadium yesterday.
The fifth win of Surjo Tarun from sLx games was mastermind firstly by veteran left-arm seamer Anisur Rahman, who claimed three wickets with the shiny ball, followed by an unbeaten half-century from inform Khaled Masood.
On-song Masood continued his terrific form with a com -posed 51 as Surjo Tarun, chasing a modest Mohammedan to-taTof 168. reached 170 in 44.2 Overs. The national wicketkeeper-batsman celebrated his fourth fifty in style, hitting the winning runs with a sweetly timed four that went straight over the head of bowler Hannan Sarker. Although Masood's innings was the icing on the cake, it was a sensational opening burst from former national seamer Anisur Rahman that did half the Job done for Surjo Tarun earlier on the day. The southpaw struck in the very first over after his captain Minhazul Abedin won a good toss in the morning and decided to field.
Anis took two wickets in the space of three deliveries and his new-ball partner Morshed All Khan struck with his first ball to reduce Mohammedan to three for four from where the popular Motljheel outfit could ANIS ... 3/38 never recover.
Mohammedan, a source of disappointment for its legion of fans for the last few years', were awe-struck when opener Reshudul Haq and one-down Nahld returned to the dressing room without troubling the scorers.
Rashed survived a confident appeal off the very first ball he faced from Anis. But the Pakistani umpire did not hesitate to raise the dreaded finger when Anis struck him again with the next delivery. Anis then rattled Nahid's wickets wit[) a beautiful in-swinger with the fifth ball of the opening over.
Morshed. who switched to Surjo Tarun from Mohammedan this year, responded from the other end when he successfully enticed big-hitting Imran Hamid to chase an out-swinger into the safe hands of Masood.
Skipper Athar All Khan and ; Hannan Sarker hung around ' for a while but it was a solo effort frdm former Sri Lankan Test cap Hasan Tillekeratne that resurrected Mohammedan from a horrible start to post a face-saving total.
Tillekeratne, the lone qual -ity players in an otherwise mediocre Mohammedan side, produced another classy knock of 70 off 98 balls before becom -ing the last batsman to go with three balls to spare. His effort in company with Golam Mor- tuza. who scored 24 in a vital 55-runs ninth wicket stand after Mohammedan were reduced to 99/8. enabled the team escape humiliation.
The experienced Lankan .hammered a couple of fours and •a massive sLxer against slow . left-armer Enamul Hoque. over long on in his polished knock.
The veteran of more than one hundred internationals also gave an unimaginative Mohammedan a ray of hopes when he captured two wickets in one over, leaving Tarun in an unconvincing position with 64 for three.
But Tarun overcame the Ipoming pressure with experienced Minazul Abedin and Khaled Masood producing 46 runs for the fourth wicket. Minhaz scored 23 off 40 balls before falling to a fine catch by Tallekeratne at cover.
Masood however had other ideas in mind. He batted carefully to guide his side to safety in association with Enamul Haq after Al-Shahriar was out for only 2.
Masood hammered half a dozen fours in his 89-ball innings. But the most fascinating aspect of the dapper right-han -der was his stunning form this season.
It was his fourth undefeated knock in pressure situation. He had earlier scored an unbeaten 73 against Agrani Bank. 66 not out against Kalabagan and 74 against Sadharan Bima. His last fifty took his aggregate total In six matches to 289 averaging 144.5.
SCOREBOARD
Scoreboard of the Janakan tha Premier Division Cricket League match between Surjo Tarun and Mohammedan Sporting Club at the Banga-bandhu National Stadium yesterday:
MOHAMMEDAN
Rashedul lbw b Anis 0
I Hamid c K Masood b Morshed 3
, Nabid b Anis 0
Hannan c K Masood b Anis 11 Athar b R Chauhan 28
Tljlekcratne c Imran b R Chauhan70 Kalpage st K Masood b R Chauhan 4 Necyamur b Enamul 8
Raflque run out 1
Mcrrtuza run out 24
Monjurul not out 7
E^ras (Ib-5. nb-2. w-5) 12
Total: (All out bi 49.3 oversl 168
Fall of wickets: 1/4: 2/4: 3/4; 4/26; 6/62: 6/76: 7/97: 8/99: 9/151
Bowler O M R W
Anisur Rahman 10 2 38 3
Morshed All 10 4 20 I
S^a Erfan 10 0 28 0
Rajesh Chauhan 93 0 27 3
Enamul Hoque 4 0 25 1
Jafar Sarfaraz 6 0 25 0
SURJO TARUN
Parvez c A b TUlckeratne 30
Imran b Monjurul 7
Jafar lbw b Tillekeratne 17
Mliihazul c TUlckeratne b KaJpagc23 K Masood not out 51
Al-Shahrtar lbw b Raflque 2
Enamul not out 13
Extras (b-1. lb-6. nb-1. w-19) 27
Total: (For 5 wickets
in 44.2 overs) 170
Fall of wickets: 1/15; 2/63; 3/63:4/110:5/118
Bowler O M R W Monjurul 8 0 33 1
Kalpage 10 1 19 1
Athar 2 0 12 0
Tillekeratne 10 0 47 2
Raflque 10 0 20 1
Necyamur 3 0 17 0
Nahid 1 0 10 0
Hannan 0.2 0 5 0
Result: Surjo Tarun won by 5 wickets.