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Victoria close in on title

SPORTS REPORTER
A magnificent century partnership between skipper Khaled Masood and opener Parvez Ahmed gave Victoria Sporting Club an exciting
four-wicket win against Abahani Krira Chakra in a GrameenPhone
Premier League Super Six match at the Bangabandhu National Stadium yesterday.
Parvez and Masood produced 155 runs for the fifth wicket to snatch
victory from the jaws of defeat, placing the 'centenary team' of Victoria only two points away from lifting the coveted title.
The duo led a spectacular recovery operation after Victoria, chasing a commanding Abahani total of 258 for six, lost four wickets for 66 runs.
Parvez scored a career-best 102. It was a refreshingly fluent knock under pressure by the right-handed batsman from Sylhet that included eight sweetly-timed hits across the rope.
Masood played a captain's knock of 78 off 86 balls to give Victoria their thirteenth win from 14 games.
The joint effort of Parvez and Masood overshadowed a brilliant performance from Abahani's Zimbabwean all-rounder Heath Streak.
After a disappointing first two games Streak returned to his devastating best with the bat, smashing a whirlwind 72-ball 93. The giant righthander struck five towering sixes and four boundaries in his blazing knock. The marauding Zimbabwean clobbered 22 runs in the last over bowled by former national right-arm seamer Saiful Islam. The former Zimbabwe captain was also in thick of Abahani's last five overs that produced 56 runs.
Streak also dismissed the menacing Victoria pair of Parvez and Masood in successive overs of his second spell to give Abahani a sniff of victory. But all his hard work went down the drain due to the wayward bowling from others and some bizarre fielding.
Abahani had played only for pride after being thrown out of the title race and the popular Dhanmondi outfit showed little motivation to avenge their first round defeat. Victoria won that bittersweet first round battled by
an identical margin at the Fatullah Stadium. It was also a fateful day for Victoria when they lost their beloved coach Dautatuzzaman.
But since then it was a fairytale run for the mourning boys of Daulat. Victoria are now leading the table with 26 points, six points clear from their nearest challengers Mohammedan Sporting Club and Bangladesh Biman.
The outcome also poured cold water on the title bid of Mohammedan and Biman.
The two teams can now only hope to finish on equal points with Victoria. Winners of the match between the two today will keep
their fingers crossed so that Victoria lose their remaining two games against Mohammedan and Biman.
Victoria however engaged in an early celebration when their young leg-spinner finished the chase with two fours over the in-field circle off medium pacer Iqbal in the penultimate over.
SCOREBOARD
Scoreboard of the GrameenPhone Premier Cricket Super Six match between Victoria Sporting Club and Abahani Krira Chakra played at the Bangabandhu National Stadium yesterday.
ABAHANI
Moniruzzaman c sub b Mukul 74
Mehrab c Parvez b Monjurul 11
Naimur c Sajjad b Kapali 39
Akram b Monjurul b Kapali 1
Streak not out 93
Biplob b Enamul 11
Alamgir c Al-Shahriar b Saiful 6
Moktar not out 0
Extras: (lb-11, w-12) 23
Total: (For 6 wkts in 50 overs) 258 Fall of wickets: 1-31, 2-102, 3-106, 4-186, 5-225, 6-241
Bowler O M R W
Monjurul 10 3 33 1
Saiful 8 0 46 1
Enamul 9 0 56 1
A Kapali 10 2 42 2
Rashed 10 0 55 0
Mukul 3 0 15 1
VICTORIA
Parvez c Alamgir b Streak 102
Al-Shahriar c Naimur b Iqbal 18
Jahangir c Mehrab b Iqbal 0
Sajjad st. Mokter b Naimur 1
Rashed c sub b Naimur 1
K Masood c Mokter b Streak 78
Kapali not out 21
Enamul not out 8
Extras: (b-1, lb-8, nb-7, w-14) 30
Total: (For 6 wkts in 48.5 overs) 259
Fall of wickets: 1-55, 2-55, 3-60, 466, 5-221, 6-234
Bowler O M R W
H Streak 10 0 26 2
Alamgir 9 1 50 0
Iqbal 6.5 0 51 2
Naimur 10 0 48 2
Ahsanullah 7 0 39 0
Ali Arman 6 0 36 0
Result: Victoria SC won by 4 wickets