The 23-year-old left-armer from Kishoreganj finished with 109-9 at the Barisal Stadium eclipsing the previous mark of young Chittagong paceman Wayaskarani Palash, who captured eight for 69 against Rajshahi last month.

But Mosharaf's fantastic feat was not enough for the hosts to stop Chittagong from scoring a huge total and set a challenging 276-run winning target on the final day today.

Away at the Khulna Divisional Stadium, the match between Dhaka and Khulna was heading for a draw despite Dhaka, who retained the title in the previous round, conceded first innings lead.

Runners-up Rajshahi also fell 20 runs short against Sylhet, but at the end of the day they put the home side's back to the wall claiming six wickets for 69 runs.

BARISAL-CHITTAGONG
Barisal is arguably the weakest among the six teams in the competition and the bottom-placed side might still end another forgettable season with a defeat. But Mosharaf made them proud at least for a day with the magical figures that could have easily been a perfect ten had Chittagong's number nine batsman Yasin Arafat not been run out.

The visitors however thrived on three half-centuries by Gazi Salahuddin (53), Ehsanul Haque (51) and Ilias Sunny (55) to post 325 in their second innings.

Set to score a victory target of 275, Barisal were reduced to 85 for 2 when bails were drawn for the day.

Right-arm paceman Gazi Alamgir claimed both the wickets for 31 runs in 10 overs.

KHULNA-DHAKA
Opener Rahsedul Haque slammed a century for Dhaka but it was not enough for the holders to topple Khulna's 351 as the visitors were bundled out for 330 resuming the day on 147-2.

Khulna took an overall 78-run lead when they scored 57 for 1 in their second essay at stumps.

Rashedul scored 126, his second first-class hundred. He added 89 runs for the third wicket with Mehrab Hossain, who chipped in with 43.

The stocky right-hander smote 16 fours and two sixes during his 195-ball knock.

Number nine batsman Arafat Sunny was the other notable scorer with 127-ball 43.

Shakib Al Hasan and Jamal Uddin Babu captured four wickets each for Khulna conceding 124 and 61 runs respectively.

SYLHET-RAJSHAHI
National discard Alok Kapali grabbed five wickets for 83 runs with his leg-breaks but Rajshahi still managed to score 350 in reply to home team's 370 at the Sylhet Stadium.

Forhad Reza (74) and Nayeem Islam (76), Zubaier Ahmed and Shamimul Haque hit half-centuries as Rajshahi almost chased down the impressive Sylhet total.

Zubaier made 86 off 196 balls that contained nine fours and a six while Shamimul added 51 from 95 deliveries.

Zubaier also took two wickets for seven runs to complete a satisfying day both with the bat and ball. Sylhet lost wickets at regular intervals after paceman Alamgir Kabir struck two early blows with the new ball.