Navaid cracks century

Published December 19, 2003

KARACHI, Dec 18: A sparkling century by Navaid Ahmed (133) with the help of 15 boundaries steered Rising Star Cricket Club to outclass Jamshaid Eleven by five wickets in the Madar-i-Millat KCCA Inter-club cricket tournament at Airport Stadium on Thursday.

In the other match Rafique Shirazi Memorial Cricket Club beat A.O Colts by 49 runs at New United Gym due to fine batting by Shahid Dawood 57 with six fours and Tahir Khan who scored 25 and captured four wickets for 15 runs.

Summarized scores:

Rising Star CC bt Jamshaid XI by five wickets

Jamshaid XI 239 in 35 overs (Irfan Ahmed 70, Salman Shafi 38, Waseem Ahmed 30; Hafiz Khan 3-29, Nadeem Ghani 2-18)

Rising Star 240 for five wickets (Navaid Ahmed 133, Hafeez Khan 38; Salahuddin 2-30)

Rafiq Shirazi MCC bt AO Colts by 49 runs

Rafiq Shirazi MCC 207 for eight wickets (Shahid Dawood 57, Zafar Ali 36, Tahir Khan 25; M Atif 3-46, Waseem Ahmed 2-45)

AO Colts 158 (Ovais Ahmed 44, Abdullah 25; Tahir Khan 4-15, M Salman 2-35, Noman Hussain 2-24).—PPI

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