It was Abahani’s sixth win the league and Gazi’s fifth loss. With the day’s victory, Abahani cemented their place at the top of the points table.
Mashrafe was adjudged the man of the match. It was his sixth five-wicket haul in List-A cricket.
Gazi won the toss in the seventh round game and decided to bowl first in the flat wicket of BKSP.
Abahani posted 286 runs for six wickets in 50 overs. Former national cricketer Jahurul Islam struck a century (130) with 14 fours and two sixes.
Jahurul and Soumya Sarkar added 66 runs in the first wicket stand. Soumya, going through a rough patch, got out after scoring 29. Mosaddek Hossain, on the other hand, made an impressive 71.
For Gazi, Kamrul Islam Rabbi and Nasum Ahmed took two wickets each while Abu Hider and Parvez Rasool took one each.
But the team tumbled in 48.4 overs scoring 257.
Gazi lost their first wicket in the second ball of innings. Rony Talukdar was the first man to get dismissed by Mashrafe.
Imrul Kayes, coming in at number three, hit 126 off 118 deliveries with 15 fours and five sixes. Shamsur Rahman was the team’s second highest scorer with 30 runs.
Mashrafe took five more wickets conceding 46 runs.