Bangladesh Cricket
Gazi earned third successive win
|| CF Correspondent ||
Gazi Group Chattogram came up with a collective effort to secure their straight third win in the Bangabandhu Twenty20 Cup as they defeated Fortune Barishal by 10 runs at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in Dhaka on Monday.
Shykat Alis late cameo 11-ball 27 helped Chattogram post 151-7 while Mustafizur Rahman and Shoriful Islam took three-wicket each to restrict Barishal to 141-8.
Chattogram were struggling at the halfway point in their innings as they kept losing wickets in regular intervals but two cameos from Mosaddek Hossain and Shykat helped their team to go past 150 runs which proved enough for a win.
Shaykat hit three sixes and Mosaddek also contributed with an important knock of 28 from 24 balls while opener Liton Das topped the scorecard with 35 runs 25 balls.
Earlier, Chattogram won their first two matches by a nine wickets but this time they were sent to bat first for the first time in this tournament after losing the toss.
Chasing 152, Barishal again opted with their makeshift opener Mehedi Hasan along with Tamim Iqbal but the pair could not last long as Mehedi got dismissed for 13 runs.
Barishal had hopes of chasing the total as long as Tamim was on the crease, but after his dismissal in the 11th over after a run-a-ball 32, Barishal lost their way in the chase.
The rest of the batting line-up couldn’t keep up with the climbing run-rate as Barishal lost their second game in three matches.
Mustafiz is now the top wicket-taker of the tournament with nine scalps and Chattogram cemented their place at the top of table with six points.