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Victoria stun Abahani

Sports Reporter
Victoria Sporting Club looked set to end their struggling form in the Premier Cricket League when they upset defending champions Abahani by four wickets yesterday.
Abahani's first defeat in eight rounds pushed the title contenders down to third place as Mohammedan Sporting Club and Bangladesh Biman consolidated their positions with comfortable wins.
SurjoTorun returned to winning ways while Sonargaon Cricketers, after six consecutive losses, won their second match in a row.
Mohammedan led the table with maximum 16 points while Biman followed closely with 15, two points ahead of Abahani.
ABAHANI-VICTOR1A
At the Sher-e Bangladesh National Stadium in Mirpur, Farhad Hossain (53) and Mahmudullah Riyad (49 not out) shared 100 runs for the fifth wicket to throttle Victoria to their third overall win in a last-over thriller.
Chasing 164 to win, Victoria were reduced to 62-4 before Farhad and Riyad dug deep during the match winning stand. Farhad hit just one boundary in his 106-ball
vigil while Riyad, who scored the winning runs with five balls to spare after losing his century-stand partner and another batsman on the same score of 162, clubbed three fours in 74 deliveries.
Earlier, Abahani's much vaunted batting line - missing their foreign recruit Anowar Hafeez -- failed to deliver the goods after electing to bat. Shahriar Nafees made 23 on his Abahani debut while Arafat Sunny, who later took 3-18, top-scored 25 as they managed to reach 163 for nine in 50 overs.
Riyad, included in the national team's Pakistan tour, captured two wickets with his off-breaks to pocket the man-of-the-match award despite missing a half-century for one run.
MOHAMMEDAN-KALABAGAN
At BKSP, leaders Mohammedan survived a scare of Kalabagan's 105-run opening partnership to win by 33 runs, thanks to the leg-break partnership between Pakistani Aqeel Arshad and captain Mohammad Ashraful.
Arshad's 3-39 from ten overs and AshrafuTs two-over spell of 2-21 helped Mohammedan initiate top and late order collapses as Kalabagan were booked for 202 in 47.2 overs.
Nazmus Sadat (49 off 76 balls) and
Pakistani batter Shahbaz Butt (64 off 76 balls), however, spread terror in the rival camp when the two Kalabagan openers put on 105 in 21 overs.
Aqeel, who had smashed a run-a-ball 61 in inserted Mohammedan's 235 all out with half-dozen fours, not only removed the threatening openers but also sent back one-down Arif Reza for a duck.
Kalabagan revived hopes from 145-7 when Fariduddin (24) and Roklbul Hassan (25) added 43 runs for the eighth wicket but skipper Ashraful's decision to take the ball in own hands paid rich dividends as his side got the last three wickets in the space of four runs.
Still. Mohammedan would have not gone past the 200-mark had not national cricketer Roqibul Hassan (80 off 107 balls) made up for the poor show by star batsmen Zunaid (4), Aftab (6) and Ashraful (19) in the face of rival pace duo Syed Rasel (2-48) and Aslam Khan (5-41).
Roqibul, who came to the wicket at 84-4 and furnished hisessay with five fours and one six, shared 119 runs with man-of-the-match Aqeel for the fifth wicket.
BIMAN-DOHS
Playing on successive days, Biman recorded a 43-run victory against Old DOHS who skittled out for 195 in 48.3 overs at BKSP.
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Man - of -1he - match Niaz Morshed's four-wicket haul (4-37) helped Biman successfully defend a modest 238-7, shaped by half-centuries from Nafis Iqbal and Musharraf Hossain.
Inform Nafis made 63 off 110 balls and shared in two significant stands, 55 with younger brother Tamim Iqbal (27) for the opening stand and 102 for the second wicket with Musharraf, whose 54 off 88 deliveries was the left-hander's back-to-back fifty in the league.
Despite opener Sakib Razzak's 65 holding one end, Old DOHS lost wickets at regular intervals and late efforts by Monir Ahmed (30), Mahbub Alam (24) and Monir Hossain (27’) were of no help.
SURJOTORUN-BKSP
After skipper Khaled Mashud's 54 and Naeem Islam's 40 helped SurjoTorun get past the 200-run
barrier at Fatullah Stadium, paceman Monwar Hossain grabbed five wickets for 17 from ten overs to blow away BKSP.
In reply to 201-9, BKSP were all out for a paltry 116 with number eight Raihan Anas making highest 30. Naeem also bagged three wickets but Monwar was the choice for the match best award.
SONARGAON-PEGASUS Nearly 500 runs were scored at the Dhanmondi Cricket Stadium but the only half-century of the game went to Arif Mahmud of Young Pegasus, who lost to Sonargaon by just two runs.
The No 4 made 51 off 57 balls but Pegasus Ipst their last two wickets on the total of 246 with seven balls remaining. Earlier, Arman Hossain scored 44 and Mehrab Hossain Opee 40 to steer Sonargaon to 248-9 in 50 overs after opting to bat.