KARACHI, Nov 1: Faraz Patel hit an elegant unbeaten century to play main role in Zone-VII Whites’ thrilling three-wicket victory over Zone-IV in the KCCA inter-zonal cricket tournament played at the NSK Regional Academy ground Wednesday.

The 16-year-old Faraz batted with patience and hit just three boundaries in his 102. Tariq Rashid made 82. Medium-pacer S.A. Faheem took six wickets for 49 runs but failed to save his team from defeat.

Zone-I Whites defeated Zone-III by seven wickets at KCCA Stadium due to deadly bowling by off-spinner Tahir Khan who captured five wickets for 57.

In another match Zone-V notched-up their third victory in a row when they beat Zone-II by six wickets at LKMC Ground.

Summarized scores:

Zone-VII Whites beat Zone-IV by three wickets.

Zone-IV: 224/8 in 50 overs (Tariq Ali 77, Shahid Latif 44, Ahsan Shehzad 22, Atif Maqbool 21, S.A. Faheem 6/49)

Zone-VII: 225-7 in 49.1 overs (Faraz Patel 102 not out, Tariq Rashid 82, Atif Maqbool 6/72).

Zone-III: 164-9 in 50 overs (Wajiuddin 50, Hasan Arshad 37, Tahir Khan 5/57, M.Ali 2/39).

Zone-I: 167-3 in 39.3 overs (Iftikhar Ahmed 60, Arif Mehmood 57 not out).

Zone-II: 162-9 in 45 overs (Kamran Bin Mansoor 34, Imranullah 32, Faheem Ahmed 20, Fahad Khan 2/38, Jaffer Qureshi 2/33, Adnan Malik 2/44)

Zone-V: 163-4 in 34.4 overs (Ashraf Ali 63, Shahid Hussain 26, Mansoor Ahmed 22 n.o., M.Zafar 20).—APP