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Halim gives Dhaka hope

Sports Reporter
An unbeaten 91 by Halim Shah brought Dhaka back into contention in the title race with Sylhet at the end of the second day of their Ispahani Mirzapore Tea National Cricket League match yesterday.
Veteran right-hander Shah, who started the day six runs short of a half-century, steered Dhaka to finish on a huge total against holders Khulna, who were struggling at 141-6 at the Shamsul Huda Stadium in Jessore.
Meanwhile, Rajshahi made a spirited reply before being all out for 329. It gave Sylhet however a vital first innings lead of 42 at their home ground. And by stumps they increased it by a further 19 runs losing one wicket.
At the Barisal Stadium, Arif Ahmed (90) enabled Chittagong to take a first innings lead against the hosts.
DHAKA V KHULNA
Resuming on 258-6, Dhaka took their first innings 358-8 before declaring with Halim clobbering 14 boundaries in his unbeaten 91 off 213 balls. He got good support from Fahim Muntasir (29 off 49 balls) and
Arafat Sunny (20 n.o off 69 balls).
Later Mahabubul Alam, Rashedul Haque and Mehrab Hossain each claimed two wickets to destroy Khulna's batting.
Tamim Bashir and Ahsanullah Hasan provided Khulna's innings some substance sharing 81 runs for the sixth wicket after the team slumped to 58-5.
Bashir was unbeaten on 49 while Hasan added 33 off 79 balls.
SYLHET V RAJSHAHI
A massive 174-run opening stand by the Islam brothers dashed Sylhet's hopes of taking a big first innings lead at the Sylhet Stadium.
Test cap Rafiqul was more aggressive in reaching fifty. He hit thirteen fours to score 82 while Raqibul smashed 72 off 123 balls with seven hits to the fence.
After the pair fell in the space of
eight balls, captain Nuruzzaman and Hasannuzzaman responded by putting on 60 runs for the third wicket as Rajshahi were all out for 329 in reply to Sylhet's 371.
The Rajshahi skipper was the third highest scorer with 61 off 117 while Hasan added 36 off 59 balls.
Spinner Ahmed Sadequr wrapped up the lower-half claiming four for 47 in 21.4 overs.
CHITTAGONG V BARISAL
Chittagong took a slim three-run first innings lead with three wickets in hand against Barisal.
Tariqul Islam grabbed four wickets as the port city team made 254-7 in 83 overs before stumps were drawn for the day.
Earlier Barisal added only one run to their overnight total before being all out for 251.
Monirul Islam and Yasin Arafat shared six wickets.
SCOREBOARD
Scorecards on the second day of the three Ispahani Mirzapore Tea National Cricket League four-day matches at different venues yesterday:
Barisal vs Chittagong
Venue: Barisal Stadium
BARISAL: First innings (overnight 250 for 9 in 97 overs)
Imran c Sabbir b Monirul 31
Tariqul st Azam b Alamgir 9
Nahidul c Azam b Monirul 27
Shaheen b Monirul 39
Proshenjit run out 0
Towhid lbw b Faisal 32
Arafat st Salahuddin b Yasin 0
Mustadir not out 72
Arman c Azam b Yasin 19
Ishraq lbw b Yasin 0
Anisur c Sabbir b Alamgir 8
Extras: (nb-7, b-7) 14
Total: (All out in 98.2 overs) 251
Fall of wkts 1-16, 2-70, 3-77, 4-91, 5-135, 6-186, 7-189, 8-209, 9-219, 10-251.
Bowler O M R W
Alamgir 12.2 5 26 2
Habib 6 3 17 0
Sabbir 25 3 60 0
Yasin 28 9 78 3
Monirul 20 4 56 3
Faisal 7 4 7 1
CHITTAGONG: First innings
Anisul b Tariqul 38
Masumuddowla lbw b Tariqul 47
Salahuddin c Tawhid b Tariqul 9
Faisal c Shaheen b Arman 3
Arif not out 30
Sabbir st Shaheen b Tariqul 9
Monirul st Shaheen b Salahuddin 12 Azam st Shaheen b Anisur 15
Habib not out 16
Extras: (nb-4, b-2, lb-9) 15
Total: (For 7 wkts in 83 overs) 254 Fall of wkts 1-74, 2-84, 3-91, 4-109, 5129, 6-201, 7-210.
Bowler O M R W
Anisur 12 2 48 1
Ishraq 6 0 32 0
Tariqul 32 6 71 4
Arman 21 5 43 1
Mustadir 8 3 24 0
Salahuddin 9 2 26 1
Emran 1 0 1 0
Dhaka vs Khulna
Venue: Jessore Stadium
DHAKA: First innings (overnight 258 for 6 in 91 overs)
Rashedul c Salim b Faizul 3
Monirruzzaman b Jamaluddin 38
Ilias run out 94
Mehrab lbw b Rasel 3
Sanwar c Sanchoy b Safiul 52
Jahangir st Salim b Razzak 3
Halim Shah not out 91
Sajjad b Jamaluddin 11
Muntasir lbw b Razzak 29
Arafat not out 20
Extras: (b-2, lb-2, w-3, nb-7) 14
Total: (For 8 wkts in 133 overs, dec) 358
Fall of wkts: 1-17, 2-75, 3-187, 4-182, 5186, 6-217, 7-261, 8-309.
Bowler O M R W
Rasel 18 5 48 1
Faizul 17 6 49 1
Razzak 35 6 97 2
Jamaluddin 27 7 59 2
Bashir 24 5 67 0
Shafiul 8 3 29 1
Hasanuzzaman 3 2 5 0
Salim 1 1 0 0
KHULNA: First innings
Shafiul c Sanwar b Rashedul 21
Shanjoy c Mehrab b Rashedul 10
Salhuddin lbw b Mahabubul 1
Jamaluddin c Rashedul b Mahabubul 5
Bashir not out 49
Hasanuzzaman b Mehrab 1
Asadullah c Sajjad b Mehrab 33
Razzak not out 1
Extras: (b-3, lb-8, w-9) 20
Total: (For six wkts in 46 overs) 141
Fall of wkts: 1-44, 2-45, 3-45, 4-53, 5-58, 6-139.
Bowler O M R W
Mahabubul 9 1 33 0
Rashedul 9 2 29 2
Mehrab 6 2 4 2
Muntasir 11 1 33 0
Arafat 6 1 18 0
Ilias 5 2 13 0
Sylhet vs Rajshahi
Venue: Sylhet Stadium
SYLHET: First innings 371 all out in 88.4 overs (Imtiaz 73, Golam 78; Shajada 3/73, Saifullah 3/98).
RAJSHAHI: First innings
Rafiqul c Parvez b Sadequr 32
Raqibul st Mabud b Mowla 72
Nuruzzaman c Mabud b Imtiaz 61
Hasanuzzaman b Mowla 36
Ashraful lbw b Imtiaz 15
Mortuza lbw b Nabil 13
Rezwanul c Imtiaz b Sadequr 9
Shahjada lbw b Sadequr 6
Sohel run out 7
Saifullah b Sadequl 0
Abdullah not out 0
Extras: (b-20, lb-6, nb-1, w-1) 28
Total: (All out in 96.4 overs) 329
Fall of wkts: 1-174, 2-182, 3-242, 4-271, 5-293, 6-310, 7-321, 8-324, 9-328, 10328.
Bowler O M R W
Arman 9 3 32 0
Rezaul 4 1 20 0
Parvez 2 0 10 0
Nabil 30 7 71 1
Imtiaz 18 1 65 2
Sadequr 21.4 7 47 4
Mowla 12 1 58 2
SYLHET: Second innings
Imtiaz not out 4
Mabud lbw b Abdullah 10
Parvez not out 4
Extras: (lb-1) 1
Total: (For one wkt in 7 overs) 19
Fall of wkt: 1-15.
Bowler O M R W
Abdullah 4 0 17 1
Nuruzzaman 2 1 1 0
Saifullah 1 1 0 0