KARACHI: The consistent outfit of Sports Journalists Association of Sindh-Reds (SJAS-Reds) beat SJAS-Blues by 19 runs to lift the NBP-SJAS inter-media T20 Cup on Tuesday.

Reds’ Shahid Ansari hammered another century to steer his side to a thrilling win at the NBP Stadium

In reply, SJAS-Blues had a good partnership between Jaffer Hussain and Mohsin Mehdi but their team could manage just 190 in the end. Jaffer Hussain stroked 57 off 27 deliveries with 6 fours and a couple of sixes. Mohsin Mehdi scored 53 runs off 41 balls.

Earlier, Reds after winning the toss, scored 209. Shahid Ansari consumed only 66 deliveries for his 102-run innings, studded with 12 fours and 4 towering sixes. Captain Mohsin Raza with 22-ball 23 was the other prominent batsman.

After the final match, former captain Moin Khan and former Test cricketer Iqbal Qasim distributed prizes. also present were former joint-secretary KCCA Jamil Ahmed, sports & event manager NBP Anwar Farooqi, former international cricketer Saeed Azad and President Pakistan Hockey Institute Shahab Shah.

Shahid Ansari’s 278 runs including two centuries and a fifty in the tournament earned him man of the match and man of the series awards.

Muhammad Osama was declared the best bowler while Asif Khan, with 3 catches & 3 stumpings, bagged the award for the best wicket-keeper of the tournament.

Published in Dawn, January 16th, 2020