Mashrafe wins his Amir challenge

DHAKA: A day before BPL began, Tamim Iqbal was going to Chittagong Vikings’ training at the BCB Academy ground when he bumped into Mashrafe Mortaza.
When their conversation was winding down, the talk drifted to Mohammad Amir and how Tamim will use him in the tournament.
“When you will come to bat, I will just tell him to hit you there,” Tamim told Mashrafe pointing to his toes.
“Bring him on if you dare. I will hit him out of the park,” Mashrafe said in a mock warning.
Tamim pointed to his toes once again, the two laughed heartily, before he joined his team-mates for training.
That moment arrived in the 17th over on Tuesday when Comilla Victorians needed 36 off the last four overs.
Tamim possibly forgot to inform Amir to bowl at Mashrafe’s toes as both the deliveries were angling away, giving him room to take a single off the inside edge and a couple with a shot over cover.
In the 19th over, Comilla just needed a run-a-ball 12 as Samuels had hit Shafiul Islam for 18 runs. Amir tried to jam the ball past Mashrafe’s bat, but he tapped it on the off-side field to reach his maiden T20 fifty. A fuller delivery was next up, the fourth of the over, but Mashrafe squeezed it past point for a couple. The next ball he hit for a four in the same direction and Mashrafe was off, celebrating Comilla’s first win in the BPL.