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Sadat turns up heat

SHAHIDUL Islam, Chittagong
Top Sports of N o a k h a I i pushed Chittagong Mohammeda n Sporting Club to the backseat in the opening
match of the country's first-ever l\venty20 tournament as the Port-city Cricket League (PCL) 2009 got off to a boisterous start at the MA Aziz Stadium yesterday.
Top Sports, batting first, raced to 158 for the loss of four wickets in the allotted 20 overs and then bowled their more colourful opponents out for 125 in 18.3 overs for an easy 33-run victory.
The defeat meant Mohammedan would now need to come back strongly against Chittagong Brothers Union tomorrow and Abahani onMay 7 in their last two league matches to remain in the title race.
None of the around 10,000-strong crowd however would argue with the fact that Top Sports were by far the better team, thanks to superb batting display by opener Nazmus Sadat and three fine bowling spells by Elias Sunny and Sri Lankan recruits S Lokuarachchi and KWeeraratna.
The big Top Sports total was built around Sadat's, who
boasts a price tag of 60,000 taka, 91 not out off 57 balls and Mahmudullah Riyad's run-a-ball 30 on a perfect batting wicket.
In reply, the local Mohammedans never looked easy except the first over of
which came 14 runs and were eventually bundled out for 125 with nine balls to spare. Their Pakistani player Qaiser Abbas played his part with a fine knock of 53 from 34 balls with six fours and two sixes, but he received little support from
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Sadat brilliantly exploited the meek attack of MSC comprised of skipper Tarek Aziz, Pakistani brothers Qaiser and Nayyar Abbas, Hafirzur Rahman Hira, Sanyam ul Islam and Sajidul Islam.
Along with experienced captain Sanwar Hossain (19 runs off 16 balls), Sadat put up 42 runs for the first wicket in only four overs and at the halfway Top Sports were 75 for 3. They slowed down in the next five overs (26 runs) but regained composure very well in the last five that saw 57 runs.
Sadat in his 78-minute stay hit four sixes and nine fours to give his team much needed win.
MSC were in discomfort all through the match especially in the second-half of their innings which was played under lights as wickets fell at regular intervals. Opener Mohammad Mithun started brightly in his cameo 9-ball 15 with two boundaries and one six. Barring Qaiser, only Tarek showed some guts with a 20-ball 14 not out The rest of the story was a sorry sight as Mohammedan kept losing wickets.
SCORES IN BRIEF
TOP SPORTS: 158 for 4 in 20 overs (Sadat 91 not out, Riyad 30, Sanwar 19; Sanjamul 2-26, Nayyar 2-32)
MOHAMMEDAN: 125 all out in 18.3 overs (Qaiser 53, Mithun 15, Tarek 14, Al Mamun 10; Sunny 5-17, Lokuarachchi 2-15, Weeraratna2-23)
Result: Top Sports won by 33 runs.
Man-of-the-match: Nazmus Sadat.