June 20, 2006	Tuesday	Jumadi-ul-Awwal 23, 1427

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LAHORE, June 19: Fine bowling by Azhar, Mustafa Iqbal and Saad Nasim enabled West Zone Blues beat North Zone Whites by 41 runs in the PCB Inter-district under-19 Lahore region cricket championship at Mughalpura Institute Ground on Monday.

Azhar (4-55), Mustafa (3-51) and Saad (3-55) shared the wickets as North Zone Whites were all out for 229 while chasing a winning target of 271.

A fine century by Raheel Butt guided North Zone Blues to a six-wicket win against East Zone Blues at Cricket Centre ground.

Raheel struck 116 with 11 four.

An unbeaten 64 by Mohammad Shafiq propelled East Zone Whites to a six-wicket win over West Zone Whites at the LCCA Ground.

Summarised scores:

WEST ZONE BLUES 270 in 70.1 overs (Sanaullah 46, Kashif Ali 46; Khurram Humayun 6-65); NORTH ZONE WHITES 229 in 76.1 overs (Omar Munawwar 70, Ahmed Shahzad 66, Rana Adnan 43; Azhar 4-55, Mustafa Iqbal 3-51, Saad Nasim 3-55).

EAST ZONE BLUES 256 in 76 overs (Umar Saleem 47, Gul Bashar 49, Abbas Dogar 41; Usman Ilyas 5-104); NORTH ZONE BLUES 257-4 in 54.1 overs (Raheel Butt 116, Ameer Hamid 65 not out).

WEST ZONE WHITES 159 in 48.4 overs (Babar Manzoor 43; Mohammad Naved 4-49); EAST ZONE WHITES 160-4 in 42.5 overs (Mohammad Shafiq 64).

APP adds from Karachi: Zone-II completed a resounding eight-wicket victory over Zone-III on the opening day of the Karachi region match at the KCCA Stadium.

Off-spinner Tajuddin took four for 24, pacemen Fareed Khan three for 22 and Sami Arshad two for 21 as Zone-III crashed to 91 all out in 37.1 overs. Zone-II, in response, reached the target for the loss of only two wickets in 20.4 overs.

Summarised scores:

Zone-II beat Zone-III by eight wickets.

ZONE-III 91 in 37.1 overs (Abbas Jafri 28; Tajuddin 4-24, Fareed Khan 3-22, Sami Arshad 2-21); ZONE-II 94-2 in 20.4 overs (Ali Asad 25, Sami Arshad 22, Farhan Rafiq 22 not out).

ZONE-I 273 in 83.5 overs (Umar Shaikh 90, Ainan Arif 47, Hamza-ul-Hasan 33, Amjad Manzoor 25; Osama Basharat 4-59, Adnan-ur-Rehman 4-74); ZONE-V 48-1 (Zeeshan Rahim 28).