Aamir’s show goes in vain

Published July 5, 2003

KARACHI, July 4: Despite a splendid allround show by Aamir Kaleem his side Zone-VII Green suffered a 36 runs defeat at hands of Zone-IV Whites in Touchme KCCA Inter-zonal U-17 championship on Thursday.

Aamir made a patient 68 off 119 balls with five hits to the ropes as Zone-IV Whites were spun out for 193 all out in 44.1 overs. Leg spinner Daniyal Latif caused the damage with haul of six wickets for 58 runs.

Zone-VII Green in reply were dismissed 157 in 45th over.

At Asifabad Ground, Asif Hameed and Zaheer Abbas shared seven wicket between them to bowl Zone-VI Whites to nine wicket win over Zone-VII Blues.

Asif took four wickets for 18 runs and pacer Zaheer Abbas got 3-13 to bowl out Zone-VII Blues for mere 68.

Zone-IV Whites romped home for the loss of one wicket.

Summarized scores: Zone-IV Whites bt Zone-VII Green by 36 runs. Zone-IV Whites 193 all out in 44.1 overs (Aamir Kaleem 68, Muhammad Hasan 20, M.nadeem 18; Daniyal Latif 6-58); Zone-VII Green 157 all out in 44.4 overs (Naz Ibrahim 38, Fazal Subhan 22, Afzal Hussain 20; Aamir Kaleem 3-21, Aamir Shah 2-41).

Zone-VI Whites bt Zone-VII Blues by nine wickets. Zone-VII Blues 68 all out in 218.3 overs (Mohsin Qureshi 34, Razaul Hasan 13, Asif Hameed 13; Asif Hameed 4-18, Zaheer Abbas 3-13; Owais Ahmed 2-19); Zone-VI Whites 70-1 in 17.4 overs (Shaikh Faisal Iqbal 29 not out, Faraz Abbas 23 not out).—APP

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