Mohammedan finished second behind Abahani in just one round. In the eighth round, the displaced white-blacks lost to their arch-rivals. Sheikh Jamal Dhanmondi Club and Prime Bank came up from behind. In this phase, the team of Tamim and Sohan have won their respective games on Wednesday and have overtaken Mohammedan in the points list.
Sheikh Jamal Dhanmondi of Sohan beat Mashrafe’s Legends of Rupganj by 60 runs in BKSP 3 field. On the other hand, Tamim Iqbal’s Prime Bank beat Pertex Sporting Club by 4 wickets in BKSP field number 4.
At the end of equal 8 games, Abahani is on top with 100% success. Now Sheikh Jamal, Prime Bank and Mohammedan have equal points (6 wins and 2 losses in 8 games) but last Jamal (0.978) is second in net run rate. Prime Bank (0.873) is third and Mohammedan (0.319) is fourth. Legends of Rupganj in fifth place with third loss in tied game (5 wins and 3 losses).
Batting first against Mashrafe’s Legends of Rupganj, Sheikh Jamal averaged 247 runs for 9 wickets in 50 overs. Saikat Ali narrowly missed the century. 93 runs in 106 balls with 4 sixes and 8 boundaries came from the bat of this opener.
Other opener Saif Hasan (0), captain Sohan (24) and Fazle Rabi (12) did not get big runs. However, Yasir Ali Rabi (40 from 43 balls), Ziaur Rahman (40 from 32 balls with 3 sixes and 40 with 2 boundaries) took Sheikh Jamal to two and a half hundred with two effective innings.
In reply, Legends of Rupganj stopped at 187 runs. Apart from legspinner cum middle order Aminul Islam Biblab 64 and pacer Nahid Rana’s two innings of 49 runs, none of Legends of Rupganj got runs. Sheikh Jamal’s Tipu Sultan and Saif Hasan took 3 wickets each.
Short score
Sheikh Jamal: 247/9 in 50 overs (Saif Hasan 0, Saikat Ali 93, Fazle Rabi 18, Sohan 24, Yasir Ali Rabi 40, Ziaur Rahman 40; Al Amin 4/44, Biplab 2/20)
Legends of Rupganj: 187/10 in 44.4 overs (Tushar 29, Fardin 16, Aminul Biblab 64, Shubhagat 12, Mashrafe Bin Mortuza 4, Nahid Rana 49; Tipu Sultan 3/26, Saif Hasan 3/33)
Results: Sheikh Jamal won by 60 runs.
Man of the Match: Saikat Ali (Sheikh Jamal).
ARB/MMR/GKS
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