February 08, 2007	Thursday	Muharram 19, 1428

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KARACHI, Feb 7: AO Blues Cricket Club and Dawood Sports Cricket Club recorded massive victories in their respective NBP-KCCA Inter Club Championship matches here on Tuesday.

Javed Gohar blasted 117 with seven fours and six 6s while Shabbir Khan cracked 80 with five fours and three sixes as AO Blues CC piled up 403 all out, the highest total of the tournament so far, against Qamar Abbas Memorial CC in 39.1 overs at the Punjab Ground.

Qamar Abbas Memorial CC, in reply, were bundled out for 90 in 17 overs. Pacer Faraz Malik grabbed four wickets for 35.

In another match at Al-Mansoora Ground, Dawood Sports, after having posted 332-6 while batting first, thrashed Pak Crescent Cricket Club by 169 runs with Mubashir Hasan getting a fine unbeaten hundred for the victors. Hamad cracked 40 not out and added 160 runs for the seventh wicket with Mubashir.

Summarised scores:

AO BLUES 403 in 39.1 overs (Javed Gohar 117, Shabbir Khan 80, Tasawar Abbas 64, Aijaz Ahmed 37, Majid Anwar 30; Ashfaq Ahmed 2-54, A Rasheed 2-70, Imran Javed 2-80); QAMAR ABBAS MEMORIAL CC 90 in 17 overs (Imtiaz 18; Faraz Malik 4-35, Iftikhar Khan 2-50).

DAWOOD SPORTS 332-6 in 45 overs (Mubashir Hasan 112 not out, Hammad 40 not out, Irfan Mushtaq 43, Hasan Saeed 30; Khalid Mahmood 2-54, Kamran Khan 2-88); PAK CRESCENT CC 163 in 31.3 overs (Hamad Baloch 61, Saeed Shahzad 23; Sami Arshad 4-46, Shahid Aslam 2-33, Ahsan Ali 2-31). —APP