KARACHI, May 23: AKU Staff ‘A’ and Meezan Bank won their respective matches in the opening round of the fifth AKU Sports and Rehabilitation Centre cricket tournament on Sunday. Meezan Bank got the better of CDC by six wickets in the first match played at the AKU Sports Centre ground thanks to Saood Ahmed Khan, who took two for 34 and scored 68.
In the other match, AKU Staff ‘A’ defeated KASB Bank by 50 runs.
Summarised scores:
Meezan Bank beat CDC by six wickets.
CDC 201-7 in 25 overs (Kamran Raees 50 not out, S. Mumtaz Ali 33, Bilal Kaleem 28, Azam Fawad 25; Umar Usman 3-41, Saood Ahmed Khan 2-34); MEEZAN BANK 205-4 in 20.3 overs (Saood Ahmed Khan 68, Kashif Aziz 60; Kamran Raees 2-42).
AKU Staff ‘A’ beat KASB Bank by 50 runs.
AKU STAFF ‘A’ 155 in 24.1 overs (Badar Jiwani 57, Mohammad Ali 35; Zubair Khan 3-23, Rizwan Ahmed 3-40, Zubair Ali 2-24); KASB BANK 105 in 20.2 overs (Kashif Jalil 36; Adnan Jafferi 4-22, Rahman Ramzan 3-26, Amin Noorani 2-27).