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A vintage Mehrab

SPORTS REPORTER
Go slow was the motto of defending champions Dhaka on the opening day of their four-day match against Barisal yesterday but elsewhere there was no such restrained approach from Khulna and Sylhet.
The strikingly different approach also meant different equation in the second round matches of the Sixth National Cricket League. The ultra-cautious approach by two senior statesmen of Dhaka Javed Omar and Mehrab Hossain saw them crawl to 186 for four at close.
Khulna, on the other hand, raced to 273 all out with national captain Habibul Bashar scoring an entertaining half-century on their home ground against Rajshahi. Sylhet tried to be positive against hosts Chittagong but were bundled out for 216.
DHAKA-BARISAL
Test opener Javed Omar scored a typically slow 60 and his former national teammate Mehrab Hossain, playing his first match in the competition, missed a century for just a couple of runs after the home side were sent in to bat at the Fatullah Cricket Stadium.
After the early loss of opener Rashedul Haque, Javed and one-down Mehrab batted with caution on a damp and slow pitch and failed to get out of the defensive shell before lunch.
The two took the score to 47 at the break but added a further 98 runs in the second session during a 151-run stand for the second wicket. As it often happens after a long partnership, both batsmen were dismissed in quick succession after tea.
Barisal captain Anisur Rahman finally broke the partnership when Javed, who faced 225 balls in four and a half-hours, edged the ball to wicketkeeper Shahin Hossain after hitting three boundaries.
Number four Mehrab Hossain Jr was run out for a nine-ball duck two overs later and his more illustrious namesake gave a tame return catch
to veteran left-arm pacer Anis while on 98 as Dhaka lost three wickets in the space of ten runs.
Mehrab batted over five hours and struck 13 fours in his 214-ball vigil.
Halim Shah (two) and skipper Khaled Mahmud (16), however, saw off the remaining 11 overs without any damage.
KHULNA-RAJSHAHI
Khulna, the only team to record an outright victory in the first round, failed to put up a big total despite their captain Bashar won a good toss and contributed a healthy 64 at the Khulna Divisional Stadium.
Although Bashar, the top batsman
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of the country, laid the foundation there were only one half-century stand between Jamaluddin Babu and Asadullah Khan, who added 70 runs for the fifth wicket after their skipper was dismissed by Sohrawardi Shuvo, the pick of the Rajshahi bowlers with 4-83.
Bashar, who missed the first round, cracked nine fours and one six before being caught behind by Shamimul Haque.
Paceman Alamgir Kabir chipped in with three wickets for 39 from his tidy 17 overs to put Rajshahi on top at one stage as the hosts lost four wickets in addition of 11 runs. But a 46-run last wicket stand between Monirul Islam and Manjurul Islam rescued the hosts from a wobbling 227-9.
CHITTAGONG-SYLHET
Chittagong correspondent adds: Fresh from an exciting win in the one-day fixture on the previous day, Sylhet failed to repeat the same magic when they were restricted to 216 in their first innings at the Chittagong Divisional Stadium.
The hosts were 37-1 at close with Gazi Salahuddin being the lone casualty. Tamim Iqbal (18) and Nazimuddin were at the crease on 18 and 12 respectively.
It was Yasin Arafat who plotted the Sylhet destruction, the left-arm spinner capturing four wickets for 45 from 20.1 overs. Chittagong's new ball pair Gazi Alamgir (3-52) and Wayskarani Palash (2-69) also bowled well.
Most of the Sylhet batters got a start but failed to carry on. Moniruzzaman, a gust player from Dhaka, top-scored with 37 from 90 studded with half a dozen boundaries while experienced national paceman Hasibul Hossain made a quickfire 30 with three fours and one six.
SCOREBOARD
Scoreboards of the second round matches of the National Cricket League at the end of first-day's play yesterday:
DHAKA-BARISAL
DHAKA: 1st innings
Javed c Shahin b Anis 60
Rashedul c Shahin b Sonnet 3
Mehrab c & b Anis 98
Mehrab Jr run out 0
Halim Shah batting 2
Mahmud batting 16
Extras: (b3, lb3, nb1) 7
Total (For 4 wkts in 90 overs) 186 Fall of wickets: 1-6, 2-157, 3-162, 4167.
Bowlers O M R W
Anis 19 6 27 2
Sonnet 8 3 13 1
Salahuddin 9 3 23 0
Mosharraf 22 7 31 0
Tariqul 10 2 28 0
Nadif 12 2 35 0
Humayun 10 1 23 0
KHULNA-RAJSHAHI
KHULNA: 1st innings
Sadat c Rezwanul b Shuvo 20
Shafiul b Alamgir 7
Bashar c Shamimul b Shuvo 64
Sazzad c Shamimul b Forhad 12 Jamaluddin c Shamimul b Shuvo42 Asadullah c sub (Naeem) b Alamgir 36 Salim lbw b Alamgir 0
Monirul run out 34
Zia c & b Shuvo 0
Dollar b Sumon 24
Manjurul not out 14
Extras: (b3, lb10, nb1, w6) 20
Total: (All out in 88.1 overs) 273 Fall of wickets: 1-22, 2-62, 3-98, 4121, 5-191, 6-191, 7-202, 8-202, 9227, 10-273.
Bowlers O M R W
Alamgir 17 4 3 39
Forhad 11 0 36 1
Sumon 19 2 58 1
Shuvo 29 7 83 4
Saifullah 7.1 0 40 0
Rezwanul 5 1 4 0
CHITTAGONG- SYLHET
SYLHET: 1st innings
Himel c Nazim b Alamgir 18
Mabud c Rabbi b Wayskarani 6
Sadikur c rabbi b Ehsanul 16
Parvez c rabbi b Alamgir 26
Moniruzzaman c Rabbi b Alamgir 37
Nasirul c Ehsanul b Wayskarani 18
Nayeem lbw b Arafat 18
Hasibul c faisal b Arafat 30
Sirajullah b Arafat 24
Nabil not out 1
Extras: (b3, lb2, nb3, w1) 9
Total: (All out in 75.1 overs) 216 Fall of wickets: 1-13, 2-41, 3-43, 485, 5-130, 6-149, 7-149, 8-168, 9209, 10-216.
Bowlers O M R W
Alamgir 20 5 52 3
Wayskarani 18 3 69 2
Ehsanul 6 2 15 1
Arafat 20.1 6 45 4
Sunny 9 2 22 0
Faisal 2 0 8 0
CHITTAGONG: 1st innings
Tamim batting 18
Salahuddin c Mabud b Hasibul 0
Nazimuddin batting 12
Extras: (b4, lb1, nb1, w1) 7
Total (For 1 wkt in 14 overs) 37
Fall of wicket: 1-11.
Bowlers O M R W
Hasibul 6 2 12 1
Sirajullah 3 0 16 0
Nayeem 4 2 4 0
Nabil 1 1 0 0