Ali Asad shines

Published May 20, 2005

KARACHI, May 19: An unbeaten 88 by young Ali Asad engineered Navy to an easy seven-wicket victory over Omer Associates in the 14th KCCA Inter-departmental cricket tournament at the KCCA Stadium on Wednesday. In other match, KESC survived a scare before defeating Naveena Industries by seven runs at the UBL Sports Complex.

Summarised scores:

KESC beat Naveena Industries by seven wickets.

KESC 224-9 in 40 overs (Mohammad Fahim 41, Javed Mansoor 39, Arif Mahmood 33, Saad Siddiqui 28 not out; Wahajuddin 3-27); NAVEENA INDUSTRIES 217-8 in 40 overs (Iftikhar Alam 54, Shaharyar Ghani 46, Wahajuddin 36; Asif Ghauri 2-35, Sharif Asadullah 2-38, Tariq Haroon 2-45).

Navy beat Omer Associates by seven wickets.

OMER ASSOCIATES 190-9 in 40 overs (Hasan Raza 55, Rizwan Khan 45, Kashif Bhatti 20; Tanvir Hussain 2-27, Farman Shah 2-31, Imran Ali 2-40); NAVY 193-3 in 36.1 overs (Ali Asad 88 not out, Tanvir Hussain 64; Abid Ali 2-39).

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