Zohaib, Junaid share honours

Published August 18, 2005

KARACHI, Aug 17: Spinners Mohammad Zohaib and Junaid Ilyas shared eight wickets between them to spin Zone-II Whites to an impressive eight-wicket victory over Zone-I Whites in the KCCA Under-17 Inter-zonal cricket championship at TMC Ground on Tuesday.

Left-armer Zohaib grabbed four for 35 and off-spinner Junaid four for 41 as Zone-I Whites were dismissed for 131 in the 45th over.

Zone-II Whites romped home for the loss of two wickets in the 23rd over with Nazish Ghous hitting 48.

In the other match at Pak Star Ground, Zone-IV Blues beat Zone-III Blues by six wickets with Mudassar Manzoor taking four for 25.

Summarized scores:

Zone-II Whites beat Zone-I Whites by eight wickets.

ZONE-I WHITES 131 in 44.2 overs (Umar Butt 30, Tabish Nawab 24; Mohammad Zohaib 4-35, Junaid Ilyas 4-41); ZONE-II WHITES 133-2 in 22.1 overs (Nazish Ghous 48, Hamza Ishtiaq 25).

Zone-IV Blues beat Zone-III Blues.

ZONE-III BLUES 104 in 43 overs (Talha Shafi 26, Jahangir Shah 21; Mudassar Manzoor 4-25); ZONE-IV BLUES 107-4 in 31.4 overs (Syed Wajahat 45; Obaid Ameed 3-18).—APP

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