LAHORE: Stags Club made it to the second round of 17th M Siddiq Memorial Cricket Tournament after crushing Samanabad Club by 212 runs at Township Al-Bilal ground here on Wednesday.

Batting first Fahim Ashraf, Noman Javed, Umer Butt and Kamran Afzal struck half-centuries to pile up a total of 322 for 7 in 40 overs before fiery bowling by Ahmed Bhatti (4-21) bundled out Samanabad Club for 110 in 20.1 overs.

Summarised scores:

STAGS CLUB 322-7 in 40 overs (Umer Butt 50, Fahim Ashraf 80; Khizar Abbas 2-51, Ali Bhatti 2-52); SAMANABAD CLUB 110 in 20.1 overs (Ashraf Watto 34, Hamid Sohail 21; Ahmed Bhatti 4-21).

Published in Dawn, July 4th, 2019

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