May 31, 2006	Wednesday	Jumadi-ul-Awwal 3, 1427

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ISLAMABAD, May 30: Mir Azam scored an incredible century off just 42 balls that helped Kent Club down Chaudhary Sports by three wickets in the NBP-ICA Inter-City Cricket Championship here at the Diamond Ground.

Azam hit 11 fours and eight sixes in his 46-ball innings of 113 after reaching the three-figure mark off 42 balls.

His explosive knock enabled his side overhaul the rival total of 252.

Zulfiqar Ahmed restricted Chaudhary Sports by capturing four wickets for 41 runs while Khairul Islam took two.

Summarised scores:

Kent Club beat Chaudhary Sports by three wickets.

CHAUDHARY SPORTSs 252 (Waqar Hussain 49, Adil Shaheen 39, Mubashir Javed 37, Nabil Mehboob 35; Zulfiqar Ahmed 4-41, Khairul Islam 2-27);

KENT CLUB 254-7 (Mir Azam 113, Hamayun Ahmed 37, Saqib Naqib 25, Zulfiqar Ahmed 24 not out; Shaukat 3-41, Zeeshan Ahmed 2-31).

Evan Club beat Imran Memorial by 46 runs.

EVAN CLUB 295-8 in 46 overs (Tariq Arif 109, Rashid Mehmood 55, Hamid Shabbir 36; Aamir Saeed 3-46, Hafizur Rehman 2-19);

IMRAN MEMORIAL 249 in 40.2 overs (Hafizur Rehman 67, Qaiser Mansoor 64, Jibran Azam 4-56, Rafi Ramzan 2-48, Basharat Khurshid 2-29).

Satellite Club beat Abbasi Club by eight wickets.

ABBASI CLUB 218 (Shahzad Ahmed 65, Bilal Matloob 25 not out, Abid Latif 24, Imtiaz Ahmed 23; Bashir Ahmed 3-24, Hayat Khan 3-29, Nazir Ahmed Qureshi 2-55);

SATELLITE CLUB 221-2 (Hayat Khan 74 not out, Mohammad Altaf 54, Tahir Mehmood 42).

Lucky Star beat Azam Club by 24 runs.

LUCKY STAR 229 (Kashif Hamid 71, Zeshan Amir 39, Khawar Khalil 28, Ziaullah 3-18, Rizwan Anwar 3-30, Syed Rasool 3-0);

AZAM CLUB 205 (Amir Malik 66, Ziaullah 33, Mohammad Babar 24, Anees Ahmed 4-39, Furqan Majeed 2-30).