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Stars miss out on big runs

Sports Reporter
I m r u 1 Kayes and Shakib Al Hasan missed
out on big scores as Khulna dominated Dhaka on the first day of their ninth round National Cricket League match at the Khulna Divisional Stadium yesterday.
The hosts' innings could have gone into the second day had any of their top-order batsmen hung around for more time. Rather, they played pretty knocks and got their team to 355 all out in just 76.2 overs. In reply, Dhaka reached 38 for two at stumps with national captain Mohammad Ashraful unbeaten on 20 with AnamulHaq.
Barisal could have been in bigger trouble but ended on 244 all out in their first innings against hosts Chittagong, who ended the day on 51 for one. j Away in Rajshahi, the match between the hosts and Sylhet । was severely hampered by fog | but play ended after Rajshahi ; I were reeling on 56 for five after I 30.3 overs.
I KHULNA-DHAKA
I An 82-run second wicket ’ stand between Imrul Kayes and Sahagir Hossain put J Khulna in control at lunch as they moved the score to 105 I forone.
But Kayes played one shot I1 too many and fell to Tigers I teammate Mahbubul Alam for
58 off 75 balls. Sahagir followed soon after and it was left to captain Tushar Imran and Shakib Al Hasan, who added exactly hundred for the fourth wicket when Shakib fell for a rapid 59 off 54 balls with eleven boundaries.
With that and the dismissal
of Tushar, the Khulna innings lost momentum as Mahbubul and legspinner Marshall Ayub pegged the home side with four wickets each. Marshall took the bulk of the middle-order wickets with his canny leg-breaks but it was Mahbubul who
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made the grassy wicket, that had bounce and movement, count.
Ziaur Rahman (49 off 36 balls) and Dollar Mahmud (33 off 22 balls) made sure Khulna went past the 350-mark.
Zia later removed Dhaka skipper Javed Omar for a duck and ended Marshall's stay for four as Khulna got on top of the visitors, who were without inspirational pace spearhead Mashrafe Bin Mort aza.
According to chief selector Rafiqul Alam, the Tigers vicecaptain has been rested due to back and knee niggles.
RAJSHAHI-SYLHET Sylhet pacemen Shuvashish Roy and Sumon Saha continued their impressive work this season as they removed Rajshahi's top-order in the space of twelve overs after play began as late as 2:10pm due to heavy fog all day.
Among the top three, Bangladesh opener Zunaed Siddiqui was cleaned up by the long-limbed Sumon, who also removed youngster Hamidul Islam for a duck.
Later, Nazmul Hossain had Khaled Mashud caught behind for nine after Nabil Samad removed Suharwardi Shuvo, who made 27.
But that was all the action for the day as umpires called off play for the same reason it was delayed in the morning. CHI TTAGONG-BARISAL Tariq Aziz and Kamrul Islam did not care much about the slow and low wicket as they helped reduce high-flyers Bansal to three for 4 in the third over. Skipper Imran Ahmed resurrected the situation somewhat by adding 26 for the fourth wicket, but he fell leg before to left-armer Mohammad Younus in the
15th over.
Barisal took the services of national batsman Rokibul Hasan as the right-hander added 87 for the fifth wicket with the ever-improving Nasir Hossain, who top-scored with 49 off 58 balls. Rokibul made 43 off 77 balls but his innings was cut short when Rezaul Karim's beauty of a delivery ended his innings.
Arafat Salahuddin later added a painstaking 41 as the visitors made 244 in their first innings.
Chittagong lost in-form Masumuddowla for 24 but skipper Nafis Iqbal and nightwatchman Rezaul Karim stayed till the bails were removed.
BRIEF SCORES
KHULNA: First innings 355 all out in 76.2 overs (Sadat 16, Kayes 58, Sahagir 48, Tushar 54, Shakib 59, Nahid 17, Anas 4, Salim 2, Zia 49 not out, Dollar 33, Rabiul 0; Robin 4-82, Azim 1-61, Arafat 1-61, Marshall 4-36)
DHAKA: First innings 38-2 in 8 overs (Javed 0, Anamul 13 not out, Marshall 4, Ashraful 20 not out; Zia 2-17)
BARISAL: First innings 244 all out in 63.4 overs (Hannan 4, Nasir 0, Shahin 0, Imran 13, Rokibul 43, Nasir 49, Arafat 41, Sajidul 22, Tariqul 1, Talha 47, Saju 1 not out; Tariq 1-46, Kamrul 2-23, Younus 2-75, Yasin3-44, Rezaul 1-38) CHITTAGONG: First innings 52-1 in 20 overs (Masum 24, Nafis 20 not out, Rezaul 5 not out; Salahuddin 1-8) RAJSHAHI: First Innings 56-5 in 30.3 overs (Jahurul 5, Siddiqui 10, Hamidul 0, Shuvo 27, Mashud 9, Nayeem 1 not out; Roy 1-17, Saha 2-18, Nazmul 1-16, Nabil 1 -2)