Meherpur Freelancers’ Cricket Match and Meet-up

By 22 November, 2015Blog, Events, News

All the times Unique Soft BD is really cordial about arranging various events to motivate the freelancers. It has arranged various events like picnic in April and meet-up during the Ramadan to motivate them. To continue the process our Chairman, Munshi Jahangir Zinnat (Hirok) posted on his Facebook page on 10 July 2014 and mentioned that this time our special attraction will be a cricket match: https://www.facebook.com/MunshiJahangirZinnat/posts/881542215193510.

Munshi Jahangir Zinnat (Hirok) Status
At that time he did not mention the date of the game but he shared the idea about the teams of the game.

On 30 July 2014, he redeclared that the date of the game has been decided and it’s at 8 am on 1st August. The venue of the game was Chandbill Government Primary School field, https://www.facebook.com/MunshiJahangirZinnat/posts/892834710730927.

Munshi Jahangir Zinnat's July 30 Status
MeherpurNews24.com was invited for the game. Majidul Haque Manik of MeherpurNews24.com accepted the invitation to play with the freelancers.

However, the expected 1st August came and all of us were ready for the game. Though the time was given 8 am but all players reached the field at 9am. Firstly the decision was making 8 teams but due to lack of time 4 teams were made.

Meherpur Freelancers

The teams were-

  • MeherpurNews24.com, Captain- Majedul Haque Manik
  • Web Developer team, Captain-Taifur Rahman
  • Marketing team, Captain- Sumon Reza
  • Special team, Captain-Munshi Jahangir Zinnat (Hirok)

It was decided that the game will be knock out system and it would be 10 overs match. The first match will be played between MeherpurNews24.com and Web Developer team and the second match will be played between Marketing team and Special Team. The winners of these two matches will play the final match.

Visitors

In the first match, MeherpurNews24.com won the toss and decided to bat first. But in the beginning of the match the situation became really tough. In the first few overs they lost all of their top order batsmen. Though later they recovered the game but reached only 50 runs. Then Web Developer team came to bat and lost 4 wickets within first two overs. After that Tareq came to bat and took the team to the winning position. Though the winning six was hit by Rubel and his team won the match by 5 wickets.

Chandbill Primary School Field

In the second match, the Special team won the toss and decided to bat first. But they also faced huge crisis at the beginning of the game. Then Sumon, Rimon amd Jakaria took the responsibility and took the team to 51 runs in total. However, Marketing team came to bat but Jakaria became very dangerous for them as he took two wickets in his first over and another two wickets in his second over. Finally the Marketing team became successful to overcome the situation and reached to the winning position. They won the game by only one wicket.

Chandill Cricket Field

The final match started between Marketing team and Web Developer team. The captain of Web Developer team won the toss and decided to field first. The Marketing team faced huge pressure from the beginning of their batting and they had to close their innings with only 30 runs. Then Web Developer team also passed hard time at the time of their batting as reached 15 runs losing 8 wickets. They needed 13 runs from the last over. Iman Hossain came as the last batsman and did something exceptional. He took 6 runs from the first ball, 4 runs from the second ball and another 6 runs from the third ball and in this way he took his team to the winning position.

Meherpur Freelancers' Cricket's Winning Team

Winning the final match the Web Developer team got 500 taka as the prize money and the Marketing team got 300 taka prize money for becoming the runner-up. The decision of the picnic was cancelled to maximize the excitement of the game. Every team expressed its interest to play in the future. Thanks a lot to Unique Soft BD and special thanks to Munshi Jahangir Zinnat (Hirok).

Freelancer Taifur Rahman and Samsuzzaman Remon

 

Freelancer Anamul Haque and Samsuzzaman Remon

 

Meherpur Freelancers' Cricket Team

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