2024-03-13 01:30:38
Sheikh Jamal Dhanmondi Club started by winning the Dhaka Premier League. Last year’s runners-up beat Ghazi Tires Cricket Academy, who came from the first division. On Monday, Gazi Tires batted first at ground number three of BKSP and were bowled out for 167 runs. In reply, Sheikh Jamal Dhanmondi Club reached the port of victory in 31.4 overs. They won by 6 wickets.
The hero of Sheikh Jamal’s win is spinner Tipu Sultan. The left-arm spinner took 4 wickets for 30 runs in 10 overs. After sending Iftekhar Hossain Iftik (31) to the dressing room at the beginning of the innings, Tipu took the wickets of Saeed Sarkar (1), Shamim Mia (7) and Iftekhar Sajjad (0) in the middle. Besides, pacer Ripon Mondal took 2 wickets and Shafiqul Islam, Arif Ahmed and Saif Hasan took 1 wicket each.
Opener Ashiqur Rahman Shibli fought alone with the bat for Gazi Tyres. He went down to the opening and remained unbeaten until the end. Scored 89 runs off 133 balls with 4 fours and 3 sixes. Despite spending 187 minutes at the crease, he did not get a century due to lack of partner.
Chasing an easy target, Sheikh Jamal lost 2 wickets for 26 runs. Saikat Ali got out before opening the run book. 3 runs came from the bat of Rabiul Islam Rabi. From there, Sheikh Jamal’s team run reached 91 with the pair of Saif Hasan and Fazle Mahmud. Saif scored 45 runs off 63 balls. Fazle Mahmood scored 31 runs off 53 balls. Both of them returned to the dressing room after two consecutive overs.
After that, Kazi Nurul Hasan Sohan and Yasir Ali Chowdhury came to the crease and batted and took Sheikh Jamal to the port of victory. Sohan remained unbeaten on 31 runs off 39 balls. Yasir scored 44 runs off 32 balls with 3 fours and 2 sixes. Sheikh Jamal won the match easily with their unbroken partnership of 76 runs. The former champions started the Dhaka league journey well with 2 points in this victory.