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Match summary: Limassol Zalmi beat Nicosia Fighters by 75 runs.
Jawad Shah 63 (24) | Furqan Muhammad 3/19 (2) Kamrul Mahmud 42 (27) | Alvi Chowdhury 2/32 (2)
A resounding victory where Limassol Zalmi have barely put a foot wrong. From start to finish, they've been the only team to have turned up on the park today with a belligerent display of batting seeing them post a mammoth total of 174, which proved to be way beyond the reach of the Nicosia Fighters.
A dramatic first ball saw a catching chance and a run out opportunity go abegging. That aside though, there was barely a blemish as far as Zalmi's defense was concerned. They kept things tight relative to the asking rate, which only increased exponentially with each passing over and it resulted in a spurt of wickets, with Furqan Muhammad shutting the door firmly on Zalmi with a hat-trick in the third over. With the dangerous Abdullah Al Tasmin being one of those wickets, it was going to take something ridiculously brilliant for the Fighters to get even close.
Alas, that never came their way, even as Kamrul Mahmud waged a lone battle and scored 42. The batters were just going through the motions at one point though with the bowlers not missing a beat and getting it spot on with regards to their radar. The contest already reached a point where the result was a foregone conclusion and despite some boundaries coming off Ramjan Hossain's bat towards the end, the Fighters fell comfortably short of their target with Zalmi romping home by a massive margin.
This result sees the Fighters continue to languish at the bottom with yet another defeat and they're all but out of contention for qualification. As for Zalmi, this could just infuse the kind of momentum they need to start peaking at the right time and there's nothing like a convincing victory such as this to get them going.
Just a run shy of 100 in the end and it's a good second half to the innings as far as the Fighters are concerned. Either way, they've fallen incredibly short of the target and it's a thumping victory for Zalmi. Limassol Zalmi win by 75 runs!
10
overs
99/5score
4
1
4
1wd
4
1
0
runs
Saurav Ahmed*
6(4)
Ramjan Hossain
27(16)
Hasher Ullah
0/15
9.6 Hasher Ullah to Sourav Ahmed, THAT'S IT! Limassol Zalmi thump Nicosia Fighters here. Short and well outside the off-stump. Sourav looks to cut but misses.
9.5 Hasher Ullah to Ramjan Hossain, too full and well outside the off-stump. Ramjan swings across the line, gets the inside edge down to fine-leg for a single.
9.4 Hasher Ullah to Ramjan Hossain, EDGED AND FOUR! Short and outside the off-stump. Ramjan looks to pull but top edged it wide of the keeper, down to third-man for another boundary.
9.4 Hasher Ullah to Ramjan Hossain, WIDE! Short delivery but strays down the leg-side, another wide has been called.
9.3 Hasher Ullah to Ramjan Hossain, FOUR MORE! Length delivery outside the off-stump. Ramjan slices it over the backward point, runs away and picks out the ropes again.
9.2 Hasher Ullah to Sourav Ahmed, back of a length on the off-stump. Sourav cuts it to deep covers for a single.
9.1 Hasher Ullah to Sourav Ahmed, FOUR! Full toss on the stumps. Sourav looks to drive but gets the inside edge, past the leg-stump and down to fine-leg for a boundary.
Hasher Ullah to bowl the final over of the game
It's been tough going today for Ramjan Hossain but could do with a couple of lusty hits in the final over to boost his confidence ahead of the remainder of the tournament. Final over coming up!
9
overs
84/5score
2
W
1
0
4
0
runs
Ramjan Hossain*
18(13)
Saurav Ahmed
1(1)
Muhammad Farhad
1/7
8.6 Muhammad Farhad to Ramjan Hossain, length delivery outside the leg-stump. Ramjan has a big swipe across the line and misses, through to the keeper.
8.5 Muhammad Farhad to Ramjan Hossain, FOUR! Length delivery outside the off-stump. Ramjan swings at it and just manages to clear the mid-off fielder and runs away for a boundary.
8.4 Muhammad Farhad to Ramjan Hossain, short and well outside the off-stump. Ramjan reaches to cut but misses, through to the keeper.
8.3 Muhammad Farhad to Sourav Ahmed, drops it short on the fourth stump. Sourav cuts it hard to the deep cover fielder for a single.
Sourav Ahmed, RHB, comes to the crease.
A juggling act but in the end, the fielder manages to hold on. They can see the smiles can Zalmi!
8.2 Muhammad Farhad to Kamrul Mahmud, OUT! UP IN THE AIR AND TAKEN! That is the end of Kamrul Mahmud. Length delivery on the stumps. Kamrul has a big swing across the line but has skied it and the backward point fielder takes a sitter. Kamrul Mahmud c Jawad Shah b Muhammad Farhad 42 (27b, 5x4, 2x6)