KARACHI: Shaikh Fahad excelled with brilliant all-round effort to help Bangkok General Trading defeat M.A. Textile by seven wickets in their 20th Hinopak Trophy KCCA Inter-departmental Cricket League fixture at the Landhi Gymkhana Ground on Tuesday.

Fahad first grabbed five wickets for 36 runs with his leg-spin bowling as M.A. Textile were dismissed for 156 in 41.2 overs. He then hit six boundaries and hoisted four sixes in making 69 while guiding his team to victory midway through the 25th over.

Despite Zohaib Hassan scoring 96 (11 boundaries), Karachi Water & Sewerage Board (KW&WB) failed to prevent Soni Associates sealing a five-wicket win at the TMC Ground.

Hasan Mohsin (84 with four fours and two sixes), Faizan Bari (64, eight fours) and S.M Tahami (51, nine fours and one six) all made useful contributions while helping Al-Amin Salt Refinery to a four-wicket victory over FBR at the KCCA Stadium.

Summarised scores:

Al-Amin Salt Refinery beat FBR by four wickets at KCCA Stadium.

FBR 264-8 in 50 overs (Mohammad Ali 64, Kaaf Patel 48 not out, Anas Ilyas 30; Osama Shah 3-45, Fahaddis Bukhari 2-33); AL-AMIN SALT REFINERY 265-6 in 47.3 overs (Hasan Mohsin 84, Faizan Bari 64, S.M. Tahami 51; Asadullah 2-53).

Soni Associates beat KW&SB by five wickets at TMC Ground.

KW&SB 228 in 44.4 overs (Zohaib Abid 96, Mati-ur-Rehman 47, Afroze Hasan 26; Ahmed Hussain 4-41, Musharraf Khan 2-18); SONI ASSOCIATES 229-5 in 37.5 overs (Babar Malik 60, Musharraf Khan 46, Qadir Khan 44 not out)

Bangkok General Trading beat M.A. Textile by seven wickets at Landhi Gymkhana Ground.

M.A. TEXTILE 156 in 41.2 overs (Zohaib Hassan 37, Aaqib Siddiqui 26; Shaikh Fahad 5-36, Arish Ali 2-16, Rao Imran 2-25); BANGKOK GENERAL TRADING 160-3 in 24.3 overs (Shaikh Fahad 69, Khurram Taj 39; Raja Liaquat 22 not out).

Published in Dawn, April 2nd, 2015

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