Mashrafe Mortuzar’s Legends of Rupganj won by 8 wickets at Mirpur Sher Bangla Cricket Stadium on Thursday. Batting first, Sheikh Jamal was trapped for only 116 runs by the devastating bowling of pacer Al-Amin. Al-Amin took 6 wickets for 31 runs. With 24.5 overs left, Legends won that run top easily.
If Sheikh Jamal Dhanmondi had lost the previous match then this match would have become an unwritten final. Due to the fact that the title was decided in the previous match, the fight of the duels was a lot of rule keeping. Legends of Rupganj ended the tournament by crushing the champion Sheikh Jamal with Al-Amin Hossain’s goal.
Mashrafe Mortuzar’s Legends of Rupganj won by 8 wickets at Mirpur Sher Bangla Cricket Stadium on Thursday. Batting first, Sheikh Jamal was restricted to just 116 runs by pacer Al-Amin’s devastating bowling. Al-Amin took 6 wickets for 31 runs. With 24.5 overs remaining, Legends won that run top easily.
Mashrafe-Shaqib Al Hasan secured the second place in the Dhaka Premier League points table with 22 points. Sheikh Jamal has already won the title with 24 points.
Legends won the toss and sent the opponent to bat. Al-Amin picked up Saikat Ali on the second ball. In the next ball, he sent Zahurul Islam back and raised the possibility of a hat-trick.
Captain Imrul Kayes was pulling the team by keeping one edge. Mushfiqur Rahim was stout. The pair of 62 runs of these two stopped at the departure of Mushfiq. Mashrafe sent Mushfiq LBW off 48 balls.
Imrul was run out just touching fifty. Nurul Hasan Sohan, the hero of the previous match, was dirty that day. He was also a victim of Al-Amin, scoring 15 runs off 40 balls. Jamal’s innings was quickly wrapped up by this right-handed pacer.
Apart from Al-Amin, Indian Chirag Jani took 2 wickets for 26 runs. Mashrafe got 1 wicket for 21 runs. Shakib was wicketless with 28 runs in 5 overs.
Legends did not have any problem chasing 117 runs. Irfan Sukkur fell victim to Parvez Rasool for 25 balls. Sabbir Rahman also departed for 36 off 33 balls by Parvez. Rakibul Hasan finished the game with 40 off 79 balls and Naeem Islam with 23 off just 14 balls.