KARACHI, April 22 Fatima Enterprise and Korangi Town qualified for the next stage of the 17th Hinopak Trophy KCCA Inter-departmental cricket tournament after winning their respective matches on Wednesday.

All-rounder Basit Ahsan Baig played main role in Fatima Enterprise's triumph. First he captured five wickets for 31 runs and later scored 37 to bowl his team to a four-wicket victory over Anford English Pakistan at the TMC Ground.

In the other match played at the RLC Ground, Korangi Town defeated Badar Expo by five wickets. Aijaz Khan scored a match-winning 66 with eight fours and one six.

Summarised scores

ANFORD ENGLISH 199 in 48.2 overs (Nazeem Abbas 66, Waqar Kundi 28, Saad Shah 26, Atif Ali 22; Basit Ahsan Baig 5-31);

FATIMA ENTERPRISE 200-6 in 40.2 overs (Riaz Merani 69, Shoaib Jaffer 39, Basit Ahsan 37, Mohammad Arsalan 29; Farhad Baig 3-40).

BADAR EXPO 155 in 42.3 overs (Jahangir Baig 44, Imtiaz Safdar 37, Waqas Sharafat 29, Mohammad Bilal 25; Owais Iqbal 2-30, Azam Khan 2-30);

KORANGI TOWN 156-5 in 28.3 overs (Aijaz Khan 66, Furqan Khan 25, Akhlaq Ahmed 20; Ahmed Mubin 3-20).—APP

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