Sheikh Jamal Dhanmondi won the toss and elected to field first. In what might seem like a bad decision now, Doleshwar openers Imtiaz Hossain and Liton Das started brilliantly by putting a 54 runs partnership before the latter got out for 37.

Liton Das continued batting beautifully and made 69 before Shykat Ali caught him in front of the wicket. Fazle Mahmud carried on the great the work laid out by the openers as he scored a magnificent 120 not-out from 101 balls.

His glorious innings took the team’s total to 293 with the loss of 6 wickets. He was well supported by Zohaib Khan and Mohammad Arafat, who scored 38 and 14 respectively.

For the bowlers. Robiul Haque took two wickets while Abu Jayed, Nazmul Islam, Sohag Gazi and Shykat Ali got one wicket each.

Sheikh Jamal, in response, couldn’t find a stable partnership that was required to win in a chase of such high magnitude.

Shykat Ali and Hasanuzzaman scored 12 and 36 each while Ziaur Rahman made 17. Sohag Gazi and Elias Sunny made 15 and 31, but the star of Sheikh Jamal’s batting was Nurul Hasan Shohan. The wicketkeeper batsman scored an awe-inspiring 100 of just 88 balls.

He almost single-handedly won his team the game, but fell short in the end---much akin to what happened in the last game.

His batting partners didn’t support him like they should have and Dhanmondi lost with Shoahn once again being the fallen hero.

For the bowlers, Farhad Reza took four wickets,               Arafat Sunny took two scalps while Mohammad Arafat and Sharifullah got a wicket each to bundle up Dhanmondi for 237.

Scores:

Prime Doleshwar – 293/6 after 50 overs
Sheikh Jamal Dhanmondi – 236 all-out after 45 oversDoleshwar Dhanmondi