Sports Desk: Nasir’s Dhaka Dominators started this mission by defeating Tamim Iqbal’s Khulna Tigers by 6 wickets. Khulna lost 8 wickets in the scheduled 20 overs and collected only 113 runs. Chasing runs, Dhaka won with 5 balls and 6 wickets in hand.
The match started 30 minutes late due to heavy fog. Khulna defeated Sharjeel Khan by 11 runs. The Pakistani batsman scored 7 runs from 11 balls. Munim Shahriar scored 4 runs for the team’s 16 runs. The star batsman Tamim Iqbal left the field after becoming a victim of Arafan Sunny in the sixth over. He scored 8 runs off 15 balls. In the end, Khulna’s innings was stopped at 113 runs due to Yasir Ali and Azam Khan’s short batting.
Azam Khan, another Pakistani batsman who dropped for four, started well. Arafat Sunny bowled the batsman who scored 18 runs off 12 balls. Khulna lost 4 wickets for 49 runs. Then captain Yasir Ali Chowdhury Rabbi made a partnership of 31 runs with Mohammad Saifuddin. The captain could not make the innings bigger, he became Nasir Hossain’s second victim for 24 runs off 25 balls. Saifuddin was out for 19 runs.
In reply, Dhaka got off to a good start with the bat of Dilshan Munabira. But Ahmed Shehzad retired after being hit by Paul McCarren’s ball and left the field. Soumya Sarkar came to play in his place and scored 16 runs off 13 balls. Soumya could have stopped at 5 runs by Nasum. He was defeated by a slog sweep attempt, he took a review when the on-field umpire gave him out for LBW. After watching replays several times, something was not clear in the alternate DRS. Yet the decision was overturned. Survivor Soumya hits Nasum for a four on the next ball, Wahab flies Riaz for a six. He had to stop because of Wahab.
Then opener Dilshan Munabira was dismissed for 22 runs. And Mohammad Mithun was out for a personal 8 runs. Team leader Nasir took the team to victory with Usman Ghani in the fourth wicket pair. When Gani returned for 14 runs, Nasir secured the win with Ariful. Dhaka captain Nasir Hossain’s bat-ball contribution to the team’s victory. Besides taking 2 wickets for 29 runs in 4 overs, he played an unbeaten innings of 36 runs in 36 balls. Ariful remained unbeaten with 1 run from 1 ball.
