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Exciting tie at Mirpur

Sports Reporter
Mushfiqur Rahim desperately dove from the close-in position to dismantle the stumps as Biman erupted in joy after playing out a tie with defending champions Abahani in a nail-biting match of the Premier Division Cricket League at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in Mirpur yesterday.
The match reached a climax when Abahani required nine runs from the last over with the last pair at the crease. Number eleven Shuvasish Roy then cut pacer Shafiul Islam to the fence leaving his team needing to score two runs from the last two balls. They managed a cheeky single to level the score off the penultimate ball to electrify some Abahani supporters at Mirpur. And the pair went for another single off the last ball after Arafat Sunny played an on-drive but only saw Mushfiqur Rahim shatter their hopes to gain full points.
Abahani now has a three points gap with leaders Mohammedan.
It was however Shafiul Islam who celebrated his first time national call-up with a scintillating all-round show. The young man smashed an
unbeaten 55 off 50 balls with three fours and four big sixes batting at number ten as Biman put up a decent total of 173 in 42 overs. He then picked up two wickets, that of Imrul Kayes (67) and Rony Talukdar (1) to become man-of-the-match.
Nobody had expected it could be an exciting game after Biman scored 173, but the disciplined bowling from the Biman bowlers and some senseless dismissals of Abahani batsmen made sure of the second tied game in the competition after the Gazi Tank and Partex match in the first round.
Left-handed opener Imrul top scored with 67 but he was the culprit by letting his team down. Imrul unnecessarily went for a big one against Shafiul when all that was needed was for him to carry the innings. He only reached at the safe hands of Sri Lankan Hasanta Fernando atmidon.
Nasir Hdssain, the second best scorer with 33 batting at number seven, made the same mistake and this time the bowler was spinner Elias Sunny. Abahani fell in big trouble when Shakib Al Hasan lobbed the ball to TUshar Imran off spinner Sharifullah as they tottered at 38-3.
Some rescue act came from Pakistani allrounder Abdul Razzaq but he was bowled by
FROM PAGE 17 left-arm spinner Mosharraf Hossain for a 26-ball 23.
Sharifuliah was the most successful bowler with3 for 36.
Earlier Biman made a disastrous start when Razzaq removed Avishek Mitra in the second ball of the innings but Zahurul Islam (30) joined Mushfiqur (20) to repair the damage by associating 56 runs in the second wicket stand but after the dismissal of Zahurul, wickets fell like nine pins before Shafiul restored the party.
Spinner Arafat Sunny caused the middle order collapse by taking three wickets while another spinner Nasir
Hossain picked up two wickets onaslowpitch.
SCORES IN BRIEF
BIMAN VABAHANI
Venue: SBNCS
BIMAN: 173-9 in 42 overs (Mushfiqur 20, Zahurul 30, Hasan ta 12, Mosharraf 13, Shafiul 55 not out, extras 23; Razzaq 1 -25, Shakib 1 -49, Rafique I -19, Sunny 3-15, Nasir 2-23)
ABAKAN!: 173 all out in 42 overs (Imrul 67, Razzaq 23, Nasir 33, extras 7; Shafiul 2-38, Tareq 1-25, Sharifuliah 3-36, Mosharraf 1 -35, Sunny 2-23) Result: Match tied