In a low scoring final round match, Mohammedan defended a paltry 165 on a sultry day at the Fatullah Stadium to end on 24 points, one adrift of Abahani -- who had sealed the championship in the previous round -- and three ahead of Sonargaon, who crashed to Super League bottom-table Old DOHS.

Abahani, who regained the title after seven years and five leagues, were seventh last season while Mohammedan, who dashed Sonargaon's hopes to hold on to their second place, had a fifth-place finish.

Two-time outgoing champions DOHS ended a disappointing season with a five-wicket victory but their captain, the legendary Akram Khan, scored only three off eight balls in his last competitive game.

A former national captain, Akram ended his more than two decades of domestic cricket to start a new innings as a national selector from next month.

Bangladesh Biman also moved up the table, retaining fourth place after huge nine-wicket win against last year's third Victoria, who slipped to fifth place.

MOHAMMEDAN ABAHANI
Archrivals Mohammedan and Abahani relieved their foreign players, Sandeep Sharma of India and Sri Lankan international Upul Chandana respectively, for the prestige match which turned out to be a dour show in the end.

Like the first leg game, where the champs won convincingly after a five-wicket burst by Mashrafe Bin Mortaza who was very busy at the other end of the city in a vain attempt to save the blushes of the national team with his batting prowess against India in a Test match, Abahani looked on course for a double when they recovered from early blows.

Ten for two after three overs, makeshift opener Ziaur Rahman's 60-ball 47 helped Abahani get beyond the 100-run mark losing three wickets while chasing a 166-run target.

But once the pace bowler was dismissed after hitting five fours and a six, Arafat Sunny ripped through the middle-order with a four-wicket haul in 6.5 overs as Abahani lost seven wickets in the space of 37 runs.

The left-arm spinner, who conceded 21 runs after scoring second highest 39 in the Mohammedan innings, was adjudged the man-of-the-match.

Earlier, opener Junaid Siddiquee's 40 off 38 balls lifted Mohammedan to 165 after they lost wickets at regular interval following the decision to bat first.

DOHS-SONARGAON
At the Dhanmondi Cricket Stadium adjacent to the Abahani club tent where he spent 16 years, the illustrious career of Akram not only ended but also saw the baton transferred to the new generation.

Akram's nephew, now the national one-day opener Tamim Iqbal, smashed 60 off 46 balls as DOHS reached 255-5 in reply to Sonargaon's 252-9, built around Marshall Ayub's 88.

Tamim won the man-of-the-match award but Marshall's solace was having the prized scalp of Akram, who gave a catch to Ilias Sunny after being ten minutes at the crease.

BIMAN-VICTORIA
Opener Nafis Iqbal made 50 not out and number three Farhad Reza smashed dozen boundaries including six sixes in an explosive 80 off 54 deliveries as Biman raced to a revised target of 181 losing the wicket of Mosharraf at BKSP after bowling out Victoria for 196.

The match-best honour in the rain-interrupted match, however, went to Biman medium pacer Shariful Haque, who captured 4-35 from ten overs.