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October 11, 2008
Hyderabad: The second match of the ICL 20s Indian Championship, featured debutants Dhaka Warriors, take on the top ranked ICL side Chennai Superstars at the LB stadium Hyderabad. Warriors' skipper Habib Ul Bashar won the toss and elected to bat, wanting to take advantage of the sporting wicket.
The Warriors set about their campaign with the left–right formidable opening combination of Shahriar Nafees & Mohammad Nazimuddin. Three sparkling off side boundaries of the bat of the attacking Nafees had the Warriors placed at 16 for no loss at the end of the first 2overs. Going for a shot too many, had Nafees, sky a mistimed shot to Syed off the bowling of Jesuraj, for a quick fire 18 off 13 balls, including four hits to the boundary.
The extravagant stroke-play from the top order Warriors saw them off to a flier, placed at 54/1 in the first 5overs; including seven boundaries & two sixes. Aftab Ahmed was living up to his coach's prophecy, dealing in big boundaries & scoring at a strike rate of two hundred percent. Some tight bowling from Superstars' premiere spinner Syed & medium pacer Vignesh put some breaks on the Warrior's batting juggernaut. At the half way mark of their innings the Warriors' were handsomely placed at 80/2.
Aftab's cameo came to an end due to the unsuccessful execution of the reverse sweep that saw him castled by the impressive Syed for a well made thirty. Just when the Warriors were taking charge of the match, the Superstars came back with a bang destroying the Warriors' middle order, reducing the Warriors to 89/5 in the 12th over, showing why they are today ranked amongst the top T20 sides of the world.
Syed was working up a great spell of spin bowling, ending with an impressive figure of 1/12 in his allotted four overs. The Warriors never quite recovered from the middle order collapse & a fighting 21 from the young wicket keeper batsman Dhiman Ghosh saw the Warriors restricted to 142/6 in their 20overs.
Brief Scores: Dhaka Warriors 142/6 in 20 over (Aftab 30, D. Ghosh 21* Syed 1/12) Scorecard