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Pak Academy crushes GP-BCB team by 8 wickets
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Visiting Pakistan
Academy team crushed hosts GP-BCB Academy team by
eight wickets on the 3rd day of the first four-day
match of Grameenphone Academy Cup at the Shaheed
Chandu Stadium (SCS) in Bogra Monday.
Chasing an easy target of 128 on the 3rd day,
opener Khurram Manzoor contributed unbeaten 65
runs off 105 balls with nine fours and two sixes
as the Pakistan Academy team made 133 for 2 in
32.5 overs.
Another opener Ahmad
Shezad scored 27 runs. Skipper Mehrab Hossain Jr.
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Arafat took one
wicket apiece for the GP-BCB Academy team.
Earlier, the hosts resumed the day with overnight
2nd innings score of 144 for 5 and were all out
for 176 in 45 overs as Wahab Riaz captured five
wickets for 35 runs and Anwar Ali took three for
49.
Night
watch Shamsur Rahman could add another 13 runs to his
overnight score before being out for 35 off facing 77
balls that featured six boundaries while another
overnight batsman Nasir made 5.
Opener Farhad Hossain 40, wicket keeper Mushfiqur Rahim
25 and another opener Jahirul Islam Omi 22 were the
other notable scorers in the 2nd innings for the hosts.
Wahab
Riaz of
Pakistan
Academy
team adjudged man of the match for claiming eight
wickets in the match. Earlier, replying to GP-BCB
Academy’s 1st innings total of 192, Pakistan Academy
team were all out for 241 in the 1st innings. The 2nd
and last four-day match between the two teams will also
be held at the same venue beginning May 2.
Earlier,
in the triangular Grameenphone Academy Cup, Pakistan
Academy team clinched the title beating GP-BCB Academy
team by 39 runs in the final at the Mirpur Sher-e-Bangla
National Stadium (SBNS).
Before the triangular one-day tournament, the host team
won the two-match four-day series against
South Africa
Academy team 1-0.
The
GP-BCB Academy team won the first four-day match against
the Proteas side by an innings and 68 runs while the 2nd
four-day match ended in a draw.
Brief
Score:
GP-BCB
Academy
- 192/10 & 176/10 in 45; Farhad 40, Samsur 35; Riaz 5/35
PAK
ACADEMY
- 241/10 & 133/2 in 32.5; Manzoor 65; Arafat 1/32.
--UNB,
Dhaka.
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