Bangladesh crushed by imports
An almost full strength Bangladesh national team playing as Cricket Committee of Dhaka Metropolitan XI were crushed by the Overseas XI, comprising foreign players currently participating in the country's Premier League
Syedur Rahman
30-Apr-2000
An almost full strength Bangladesh national team playing as Cricket
Committee of Dhaka Metropolitan XI were crushed by the Overseas XI,
comprising foreign players currently participating in the country's Premier
League. The match held at the Bangabandhu National Stadium was organized by
one of the country's oldest clubs, Wari Club as part of their Centneary
celebrations. It was curtailed to a 38-over a side encounter due to heavy
rain on the previous night. Akram Khan led the Bangladesh side while Tareq
Mehmood was in charge of the guests' side which had ten Pakistanis out of
the eleven.
Electing to bat first, CCDM lost Naimur Rahman early for 12, before
Shahriar Hussain and Habibul Bashar added 91 runs for the second wicket.
Bashar left for 37 with the score on 112 and his partner Shahriar was the
next to go, top scoring with 66, an innings which inlcuded three boundaries
and two sixes.Shahriar was Pakistani left armer Mohammad Hossain's first
victim and more soon followed. The rest of the batsman were unable to put
up any resistance against the Overseas attack, as Hossain ripped through
the ordertaking 5/19. CCDM ended at up with a disappointing score of 182/9
in their allotted 38 overs.
Overseas XI started disastrously losing Mohammad Hossain, who failed to
score. But after that another good second wicket partnership, this time
between Salim Elahi (69 off 19 balls, 10 fours and a six) and Imran Farhet
(39) worth 92 put the imports in a very comfortable position. After the
departure of both the anchoring batsman, Sarfaraz followed cheaply with
just 2. With the score on 157 and just 23 runs required, Abid Hanif (19)
and Manzoor Elahi (18) played it safe and Overseas XI sailed to victory
with 3 overs to spare.