CCS, PFS in last eight

Published September 23, 2005

KARACHI, Sept 22: City Central School (CCS) and Pak Folks School (PFS) sailed into the quarterfinals of the KCCA Inter-school cricket tournament after winning their matches on Wednesday. CCS scored a crushing 240-run victory over GBSS Nzaimabad at TMC Ground.

Batting first, CCS raced to 294-4 in 50 overs thanks to fine knocks by Mohammad Irfan (63, seven fours), Mohammad Zohaib (59, five fours) and Hasan Alam (51, six fours).

GBSS Nazimabad, in response, crashed to 54 all out in the 22nd over with left-arm spinner Junaid Ishaq capturing three wickets for four runs. Zeeshan Nasir got three for 24.

In the other match at KCCA Stadium, leg-spinner Obaid Ahmed took six for 41 runs as PFS beat Zeeshan Secondary School (ZSS) by 62 runs. Earlier, Zahid Ali hammered a brilliant 101 with 10 boundaries to help PFS reach 205.

Summarised scores:

CSS beat GBSS Nazimabad by 240 runs.

CCS 294-4 in 50 overs (Mohammad Irafn 63, Mohammad Zohaib 59,Hasan Alam 51); GBSS 54 in 21.1 overs (Junaid Ishaq 3-4, Zeeshan Nasir 3-23).

PFS beat ZSS by 62 runs.

PFS 205 in 45.5 overs (Zahid Ali 101, Atif Siddiqui 54; Arsal Javed 3-23, Adil Iqbal 3-31); ZSS 143 in 34.4 overs (Yousuf Khan 34, Mohammad Irfan 35; Obaid Ahmed 6-41).—APP

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