Duronto Rajshahi v Barisal Burners – 1st Semi-final http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Bangladesh-c747 Premier League – Burners into the finals- Match update
Barisal Burners became the first team to make it to the finals of the Bangladesh Premier League 2011/12 season. Burners accomplished this feat by romping over the league http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Thomas-Donald-Topley-c93395, Duronto Rajshahi in the 1st semi-final played at the Shere Bangla
National Stadium, Mirpur on Tuesday, February 28, 2012.
The match at Mirpur was a high scoring fixture. Burners were set a target of 185 runs by Rajshahi, which they chased down with minimum of hassle. It only took the Burners 16 overs to register a win, and the only lost two wickets in the process.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Brad-Hodge-c1184 and wicket-keeper batsman
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Phil-Mustard-c2183 chipped in with 33 runs.
It was the opening stand, between Shehzad and Hodge, of 103 runs from 7.5 overs that paved the way for an easy win for the Burners.
The day for the Burners got off to a perfect start, with Hodge winning the toss and electing to field. The new ball bowler, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Yasir-Arafat-c98241, responded well to his skippers call, as he took three wickets in his first over to force the Rajshahi on the back foot.
Arafat, the Pakistan born cricketer, got the better of his compatriot http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Shahzaib-Hasan-c2488, when he removed him on the third ball of the innings. Hasan, who had been in tremendous form off-late failed to produce one of his magical innings and got out after scoring
just 2 runs.
The Bangladeshi opening batsman, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Marlon-Nathaniel-Samuels-c74804, was the third wicket to fall in Arafat’s over. Both
he and Siddique got out without adding any runs to their tally.
Rajshahi skipper, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Sean-Ervine-c2471 did their very best and put on a stand of 110 runs for the fourth wicket. Rahim’s was the fourth wicket that came Burners way, the captain got out after scoring 58 runs.
Ervine along with Abdul Razzaq put on a stand of 58 runs for the fifth wicket before a mix-up, cost him his wicket, but by that time Rajshahi had piled 184 runs on the board.
Duronto Rajshahi (Playing XI): Shahzaib Hasan, Junaid Siddique, Sean Ervine, Marlon Samuels, Mushfiqur Rahim(w/c), Abdul Razzaq, Sabbir Rahman, Mohammad Sami, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Saqlain-Sajib-c88745
Barisal Burners (Playing XI): Ahmed Shehzad, Brad Hodge(c), Phil Mustard(w), http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Farhad-Hossain-c56786, Suhrawadi Shuvo, Yasir Arafat
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