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Ton-up Ashraful

Sports Reporter
Mohammad Ashraful hit back to form with an unbeaten century as Dhaka got off to a flying start against hosts Chittagong in the fifth round of the Ispahani Sixth National Cricket League yesterday.
The talented riglit-hander, back after a disappointing tour in India where he led the BCB XI in the Duleep Trophy, struck a swashbuckling 115 not out in Dhaka’s impressive score of 280-5 al slumps on Day One at the Chittagong Division^ Stadium.
Mohammad Shahajada, who was also a member of the BCB XI, used his experience in the India's first-class competition to good effect when the right-arm seamer took four wickets to restrict Barisa] to 250-9 at the Rajshahi Divisional Stadium.
While there was plenty of action al Chittagong and Rajshahi, the. other match between Khulna and Sylhet at the Khulna Divisional Stadium was hit by the pre-season rain. Inclement weather in the southern part of the country could allow only 9.2 overs of play after the hosts sent Sylhet into bat.
DHAKA-CHITTAGONG Khaled Mahmud's Dhaka made a perfect start in the top-of-the-table battle against Chittagong when Ashraful's sixth first-class hundred laid the holders a strong platform.
The visitors were off to a worst possible starl when their opener junior Mehrab Hossain returned to the pavilion for a duck But his senior namesake and former Bangladesh opener Mehrab (48 off 105 balls) repaired the damage putting on 97 runs for the second wicket with Anwar Hossain.
Dhaka suffered a mini collapse when Yasin Arafat bowled Anwar for 42 and Ilias Sunny removed veteran Halim Shall for 1, leaving the score at 107-4.
But Ashraful and captain on song Mahmud effectively stopped the slid producing 172 runs for the fifth wicket before the latter was caught by Faisal off Sunny after scoring a patient 54 off 140 balls that included seven boundaries.
Ashraful however carried on and struck 18 delightful boundaries and one six during his 163-ball undefeated vigil al the crease. Neeyamur Rashid was batting on nought with Ashraful when the stumps were drawn for the day.
RAJSHAHI-BARISAL
Right-arm pacer Shahajada gave Rajshahi a perfect start after his
captain Khaled Mashud, who has relumed to action after serving a one-match ban, won the toss and put Barisa] in.
The young paceman removed both Barisal openers Imran Ahmed (15) and Humayun Kabir (5) with the scoreboard reading only 39. He also denied discarded national opener Hannan Sarker from a deserved half-ceniury after the right-hander put on 70 runs for the third wicket witliNasiruddin.
Hannan scored 48 off 115 balls with three hits to the fence while Nasiruddin made 46 off 116 balls that features three boundaries.
Barisal losl wickels al regular intervals but managed to score respectable total thanks an unbeaten 33 by number nine batsmen Arafat Salahuddin.
KHULNA-SYLHET
Overnight rain and incessant drizzling till lunch almost spoiled the opening day's play at the Khulna Divisional Stadium.
The match finally started an hour after Test and Sylhet were 31 for no loss in 9.2 overs with in-from Golam Rahman batting on 10 Moniruzzaman on 16.
SCOREBOARD
Scoreboards on the first day of the four-day National League fifth round matches yesterday:
DHAKA-CHITTAGONG
DHAKA: First innings
Anwar b Arafat 42
Mehrab Jr c Rabbi b Alamgir 0
Mehrab Sr run out 48
Ashraful batting 115
Halim c Rabbi b Sunny 1
Mahmud c Faisal b Sunny 54
Neeyamur batting 0
Extras: (b-8, lb-6, nb-4, w-2) 20
Total: (For 5 wkts in 91 overs) 280 Fall of wkts: 1-3, 2-100, 3-100, 4107, 5-279.
Bowlers O M R W
Alamgir 20 5 41 1
Habib 11 2 34 0
Aftab 5 1 9 0
Ehsanul 5 0 12 0
Sunny 19 7 62 2
Arafat 25 5 83 1
Faisal 6 2 25 0
RAJSHAHI-BARISAL
BARISAL: First innings
Imran b Shahajada 15
Humayun b Shahajada 5
Hannan c Rubayet b Shahajada 48
Nasiruddun b Anisur 46
Shaheen c Nayeem b Anisur 23
Bashar c Nayeem b Saifullah 10
Nadif c M'zaman b Alamgir 19
Mosharraf c Masud b Saifullah 6 Salahuddin batting 33
Kabir b Shahajada 18
Sonnet batting 5
Extras: (b-14, lb-4, nb-1, w-3) 22
Total: (For 9 wkts in 90 overs) 250 Fall of wkts: 1-10, 2-39, 3-109, 4144, 5-153, 6-177, 7-177, 8-202, 9240.
Bowlers O M R W
Alamgir 25 8 53 1
Shahajada 18 4 42 4
Sumon 15 3 40 0
Saifullah 24 3 70 2
Anisur 8 1 27 2
KHULNA-SYLHET
SYLHET: First innings
Golam Rahman batting 10
Moniruzzaman batting 16
Extras: (b-4, w-1) 5
Total: (No loss in 9.2 overs) 31
Bowlers O M R W
Mashrafee 4.2 0 11 0
Dollar 4 1 12 0
Ziaur 1 0 4 0