KARACHI: Mohammad Bilal excelled with a five-for as Zone-IV Blues sealed a nervy three-wicket victory against Zone-III Blues in their Little Master Hanif Mohammad Memorial T20 Inter-zonal Colour-kit Cricket League fixture at the KCCA Stadium on Wednesday.
Bilal grabbed five wickets for 24 runs to help his team curtail Zone-III Blues to just 112-7. He then top-scored with 23 as Zone-IV Blues won with 10 balls to spare.
Zone-IV Whites, meanwhile, completed an easy 45-run victory over Zone-V Blues, while in an earlier game Zone-VI Blues upstaged Zone-IV Green by 13 runs.
Summarised scores:
Zone-IV Whites beat Zone-V Blues by 45 runs.
ZONE-IV WHITES 130-7 in 20 overs (Adeel Khan 32, Komail Abbas 26; Hasan Shahab 2-27); ZONE-V BLUES 85 in 15.5 overs (Shiraz Ali 23; Mohammad Hasan 3-15, Waleed Ahmed 3-22).
Zone-IV Blues beat Zone-III Blues by three wickets.
ZONE-III BLUES 112-7 in 20 overs (Mohsin Sultan 32, Adnan-ul-Haq 28; Mohammad Bilal 5-24); ZONE-IV BLUES 114-7 in 18.2 overs (Mohammad Bilal 23, Fareed Agha 21; Mohammad Zeeshan 3-13).
Zone-VI Blues beat Zone-IV Green by 13 runs.
ZONE-VI BLUES 142-7 in 20 overs (Umar Daraz Rao 37, Waleed Ilyas 34, Abdullah Khan 27 not out; Ali Raza 2-21); ZONE-IV GREEN 129-8 in 20 overs (Ali Raza 46 not out, Shahid Hussain 34; Bilawal Malik 2-18, Waqar Qudrat 2-29).
Published in Dawn, October 20th, 2017
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