Elias Sunny's impressive all-round effort went in vain as BKSP secured a two-wicket victory over Cricket Coaching School (CCS) at the Fatullah Cricket Stadium yesterday as the Premier League resumed after a three-day break

It was BKSP's third win in six matches while CCS remained at six points from the same number of outings.

Partex Sporting Club registered their second win when they handed a five-wicket defeat to Young Pegasus at BKSP Pegasus has one point from six games, which they have earned from the tie match against Mohammedan.

Victoria will meet Gazi Tank today at the Fatullah Cricket Stadium in the last sixth round game while the seventh round also start today with the match between defending champions Abahani and pointless City Club at BKSP

In a gesture of solidarity, with the scores of army officials who lost their lives in the BDR mutiny, each game was preceded by a minutes silence.

BKSP-CCS

Sunny followed up his stroke-filled 72 with a two-wicket haul but his effort was not good enough to confirm CCS's fourth victory.

The opening batsman smashed twelve boundaries during his 92-ball essay while Nazmul Hossain contributed 37 off 68 balls as

CSS posted 203 for nine after being sent into bat first.

Mominul Haque was the most successful bowler with four for 25 while Asif Ahmed captured three for 35 runs.

In reply, BKSP rode on Shoumya Sarker’s half century to reach the target with 207-8 with one over in hand.

Shoumya made 56 off 80 balls that featured five boundaries and a six and Tanveer Haider added 37 off 52 balls with the help of three fours.

Left-arm spinner Sunny had an impressive 10-over spell as he conceded only 27 runs to pick up two wickets.

PARTEX-PEGASUS

Partex thrived on two half centuries from Tarique Ahmed and Pakistan's Rashed Hanif to make 212 for five in reply to Pegasus's 211-7.

After a 71-run opening stand between Shafiul Alam (38) and Mehrab Hossain (27), Tarique hit a 68-ball 59 that saw six fours while Hanif was not out on 50 off 61 balls that contained five boundaries.

Earlier, a 69-run knock by Jupiter Ghosh helped Pegasus put up a decent total on the board. Jupiter hit five fours in an 118-ball innings.

Rezaul Haque took three wickets for 36 runs.

BRIEFSCORES

CCS: 203-9 in 50 overs (Elias 72, Butt 29, Shuvagoto 14, Nizamuddin 14, Nazmul 37 not out, Asadullah 15, extras 10; Riaz 1-25, Imamul

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1-45, Mominul4-25,Asif3-35) BKSP: 207-8 in 49 overs (Saikat 18, Sarker 56, Asif26,Zabid 15, Tanveer 37, Anamul 10, Imamul 14 not out, extras 15; Shanto2-47, Bishwanath 1-30, Nizamuddin 1-41, Shakil 2-29, Elias 2-27)

RESULT: BKSP won by two wickets.

PEGASUS: 211-7 in 50 overs (Faisal 10, Jupiter 69, Bashar 48, Jubaer 42 not out, Iftekhar 17, extras 16; Dipazzal 1-27, Ariful 1-13, Iqbal 1-38, Rezaul 3-36)

PARTEX: 212-5 in 47.4 overs (Shafiul 38, Mehrab 27, Tarique 59, Mushfiqur 13, Rashed 50 not out, extras 14; Zakaria 2-38, Faisal 2-34, Bashar 1-34).

RESULT: Partex won by five wickets.