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Elton Chigumbura

ZIMBABWEAN all rounder Elton Chigumbura yesterday hammered 50 runs in the last 2.5 overs, including a record 39 from the last over of the innings, to propel Sheikh Jamal Dhanmondi Club to their fourth win in the Dhaka Premier Division.
The record performance by Chigumbura ensured his side beat Abahani Limited by 28 runs in Mirpur, making it
Abahani’s fourth loss in five games, and their seamer Alauddin Babu’s 39-run over became a world record.
After Dhanmondi were put into bat, they were off to a sound start despite losing Junaid Siddique early.

Jahurul Islam, who made 60, added 89 runs for the second wicket with Dilshan Munaweera.
They lost a few wickets in the middle overs, but a final onslaught put them right on top.
The Zimbabwe all rounder, hammered 50 runs in the last 17 deliveries, including the 39 from the last over of the innings bowled by Alauddin.

He gave away five off the first ball which was a no-ball, and then bowled a wide. Off the next five balls, Chigumbura alternated between sixes and fours, before Alauddin bowled another wide and was finished off with a six.
Chigumbura finished with an unbeaten 69 off 54 balls with four fours and five sixes.

Alauddin ended up conceding a whopping 93 in his 10 overs, but not all the Abahani bowlers were this profligate. Al-Amin Hossain took four wickets for 38 runs.

Alauddin’s 39 was the most runs conceded in an over in List A cricket, beating the Netherlands leg-spinner Dan van Bunge, who leaked six sixes in an over to Herschelle Gibbs in the 2007 World Cup.

It is also the most in Dhaka Premier Division history, beating Naeem Islam’’s 36 (six sixes) off Marshall Ayub in the 2009-10 season, also at the Shere Bangla National Stadium.

Abahani were deflated by Chigumbura’s finish, but their second-wicket partnership between Shahriar Nafees and Tharanga Paranavitana added some solidity.

The pair put together exactly 100 runs, but the rest of the Abahani batsmen couldn’t hold on to the advantage. Mosaddek Hossain managed 43, but that was not enough as Dhanmondi bowled them out for 254.

Off-spinner Abul Bashar took four wickets while seamer Shafiul Islam picked up three. —Agencies.