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Just Mushfiqur

Few Tigers perform in Premiership

Sports Reporter
There is only one player from the current Bangladesh team among the top Premier League batsmen and bowlers.
Test wicketkeeper Mushfiqur Rahim, who was ignored for the one-day series in Pakistan and at home against Ireland and South Africa earlier this year, became the number one batsman in the competition with 632 runs at an impressive average of 48.62 for BKSP. He slammed five half-centuries and 145 against Kalabagan during the first phase, which remained the highest score in the competition. Among the bowlers. Arafat Sunny topped the bowlers' chart with 33 wickets, followed by Shafaq Al Jabir (28) and Surjo Torun left-arm spinner Mohammad Younus (27).
Tamim Iqbal entered the list at lowly No. 18 with 356 runs and it is a shame that none of his national team colleagues could even break into the top ranks of batsmen in the country's most coveted domestic competition. Tamim's poor strike-rate of 65.6 dented his reputation of being a big-hitter but his
half-centuries gave Bangladesh Biman solid opening stands.
But if Tamim's position is
FROM PAGE 17 termed lowly. what should one say about the only remaining Tiger in the list? Tigers opener Shahriar Nafees, who played for champions Abahani, amassed only 304 at a rate of 43.43 with only three half-centuries but one could argue that he is a few degrees better than his more illustrious fellow Tigers who were nowhere to be found among the first 40 in this year's competition.
Where are the likes of Mohammad Ashraful. Aftab Ahmed, Forhad Reza, Shahadat Hossain or even Zunaed Siddiqui who made all the headlines in last season's domestic competition? They made little contribution for themselves and their respective clubs. The failure of Ashraful. Aftab and Zunaed are well-documented while Shahadat never even managed a team. Forhad contributed little with bat and ball and wicketkeeper Dhiman Ghosh is a step behind Mushfiqur due to the BKSP captain's volume of runs.
But all credit must go to right-handed Mushfiqur who is also the only player to have broken the 600-run barrier, as the next best four batsmen in the list remained more than hundred runs adrift. Pakistani all-rounder Rashed Hanif (532), Surjo Tonin's Nayeem Islam (527) and Imran Ahmed (505) made up the top four. Nayeem could not convert any of his four half-centuries into a big one while Imran Ahmed's collection ensured modest City Club made it to the Super League. Alok Kapali (482) is the other Bangladesh international apart from Mushfiqur to have made it into the top ten. Relegated Kalabagan's foreign recruit Shahbaz Butt rounded off the list with 443 runs from 13 outings.
The Premier League gets a little worse for the Tigers bowlers as only Mashrafe Bin Mortaza from the present setup is at No. 11 with 20 wickets from 10 games. But his contribution cannot be judged through statistics as his crucial breakthroughs and valuable runs down the order inspired Biman to remain ahead of Abahani for most of the competition. But when he faltered in the Super League, so did Biman.
Batsman Nadif Chowdhury has the highest average (76.7) while his Abahani teammate Mahbubul Karim does not surprise anyone walking away with the highest strike rate at 103.8. Mushfiqur. Surjo Torun batsman Shamsur Rahman and Nafis Iqbal of Biman have five fifties each while Nazmus Sadat is the only batsman to have scored two hundreds. In all, there were nine hundreds in the 84 matches played.
Among the wicket-takers, Sunny took away most of the honours including the best average, best economy rate and the best bowling figures. Surjo Tonin's leftarm spinner Younus and Young Pegasus paceman Nazmul Islam took three four-wicket hauls while Mashrafe and Syed Rasel are the only Tigers to have mustered five-wicket hauls.
Mosharraf Hossain of Biman took away the most man-of-the-match (4) awards while Nazmus Sadat and Suharwardi Shuvo took three each.