KARACHI: Zone-I and Zone-III emerged winners in the opening round of matches in the KCCA Inter-zonal T20 Colour-kit Ramazan Cricket League her the other day.

Zone-I defeated Zone-II by 17 runs at the National Stadium with the highlight being off-spinner Yasir Hussain’s brilliant spell of 5-10 that earned him the man-of-the-match award from former Test batsman ad current chairman of the junior selection committee Basit Ali.

In the other match at the TMC Ground, Zeeshan Jamil scored 68 with the help of nine fours and a brace of sixes as Zone-III beat Zone-IV by 45 runs.

Summarised scores:

Zone-I bt Zone-II by 17 runs at National Stadium.

ZONE-I 152-6 in 20 overs (Ahmed Iqbal 42, Mohammad Afzal 41, Behram Khan 28; Ahmer bin Nasir 2-16); ZONE-II 135 in 18.3 overs (Adnan Baig 31, Wali Khan 24, Hasan Javed 23; Yasir Hussain 5-10, Ahmed Iqbal 2-20, Israr-ul-Haq 2-28.

Zone-III bt Zone-IV by 45 runs at TMC Ground.

ZONE-III 168-8 in 20 overs (Zeeshan Jamil 68, Mir Afzal 45; Irshad Khan 3-37, Shoaib Khan 2-20); ZONE-IV 123-9 in 20 overs (M. Wajahat 62; Fahad Mahmood 3-17, Amjad Manzoor 2-20).

Published in Dawn, July 23rd , 2014