KARACHI, Nov 5: Leg-spinner Mansoor Ahmed grabbed six wickets for 44 runs but failed to save Zone-VII from suffering a 38-run defeat at the hands of Zone-V in the KCCA inter-zonal cricket championship at the KCCA Stadium Sunday.

Jaffer Qureshi and Adnan Malik shared six wicket between them in Zone-V’s win.

Summarized scores:

Zone-V: 176 in 45.5 overs (Muhammad Zafar 27, Mansoor Ali 25, Jaffer Qureshi 24, Mansoor Ahmed 6-44, Raheel Waris 3-60)

Zone-VII: 138 in 44.5 overs (Tariq Rashid 54, Javed Qadeer 28, Jaffer Qureshi 3-56, Adnan Malik 3-31).

Zone-IV: 158 in 46 overs (Muhammad Imran 64, Tariq Ali 28, Talib Ali 5-61, Kaleem Siddiqui 5-67)

Zone-II: 160-2 in 35 overs (Saif Ashraf 66 not out, Zeeshan Siddiqui 59).—APP