Sampdoria off the mark with shock win

ROME: Sampdoria, beaten in their first two Serie A games of the season, broke their duck when a penalty from veteran Fabio Quagliarella and a late goal from Valerio Verre gave them a 2-1 win at Fiorentina on Friday.

The hosts should have taken an early lead but Christian Kouame, unmarked at the far post, contrived to fire wide from Giacomo Bonaventura’s cross.

Sampdoria went ahead three minutes before halftime with a penalty won and converted by Quagliarella.

Dusan Vlahovic levelled with a clinical finish in the 72nd minute but Sampdoria continued to look dangerous.

Morten Thorsby had a goal ruled out for handball for the visitors following a VAR review before Verre scored the winner with a clever chip seven minutes from time.—Reuters

Adnan shines for Hawks United

KARACHI: Opener Adnan slammed a brilliant half-century as Hawks United CC score a second straight win by defeating Royal Kings CC by 80 runs in the Second Corporate Colour-kit T20 League at the Arabian Sea Country Club Ground here the other day.

United Hawks posted 225-5 with Adnan striking 66 from only 39 balls with the aid of eight fours and one six.

Royal King CC were shot out for 145 in 18.1 overs.

In another match Rex XI clinched a 36-run victory over Firdous XI.

Summarised scores:

Hawks United beat Royal Kings CC by 80 runs.

HAWKS UNITED CC 225-5 in 20 overs (Adnan 66 not out, Talha 43, Hamza 34; Taimur 3-36, Owais 2-48); ROYAL KINGS CC 145 in 18.1 overs (Owais 21; Haider 4-31, Nabeel Akhtar 2-29).

Rex CI beat Firdous XI by 36 runs.

REX XI 141 in 20 overs (Amjad 45, Yahya Rizvi 24; Taha 4-20, Muzammil 2-4, Nasrullah 2-40). FIRDOUS XI 105 in 17.5 overs (Mohammad Ali 35: Azhar 2-12, Mehsam 2-12, Fayyaz 2-19).—Sports Reporter

Sameer, Ashar cruise into ranking tennis finals

KARACHI: Nameer Shamsi overpowered Rayan Jawad 6-2, 6-1 to reach the men’s singles final in the second Afeef Trophy Sindh Ranking Tennis Championships at Beach View Club on Saturday.

In the U-17 singles semi-final, Ashar Mir defeated Ashar Siddiqui while Raahim Veqar and Ibrahim Noman entered the U-15 final by beating their respective rivals.

Results:

Men’s singles (semi-final): Nameer Shamsi bt Rayan Jawad 6-2, 6-1.

Under-17 singles (semi-final): Ashar Mir bt Ashar Siddiqui 6-3, 6-3.

Under-15 singles (semi-final): Rahim Veqar bt Kashan Tariq 4-1, 4-0; Ibrahim Noman Yousuf bt Muneer Derbari 4-1, 4-0.

Under-11 singles (quarter-final): Muneer Derbari (Hyderabad) bt Inaya Sayeed 4-0, 4-2.

Under-13 singles (semi-final): Samar Zaman bt Mohammad Usman 4-1, 4-0.

Under-9 singles (semi-final): Zayed Zaman bt Hussain Farooq 10-1, 10-5.

Men’s doubles (semi-final): P. Kumar and Asim Gul bt Zubair Raja and Saad Salim 8-4.

Nameer Shamsi and Rayan Jawad bt Ali Zaidi and Shamail Tajamul 8-1.—Agencies

Big win for Khizra Club

LAHORE: Four wickets by Ali Hasan Tariq and Ibrar Khan helped Khizra Club beat Ravi Park Gymkhana by 89 runs to qualify for the next round in the Yasin Akhtar T20 Cricket Tournament at the LCCA ground here on Saturday.

Ali took four for 12 while Ibrar bagged 4-16 to reduce Ravi Park Gymkhana, to a paltry 92 all out.

Summarised scores:

KHIZRA CLUB 181-5 in 20 overs (Zain bin Farooq 40, Umer Eman 38 not out, Adnan Rasool 30, Shahwaiz Irfan; Gulfam 2-29); RAVI PARK GYMKHANA 92 in 15.5 overs (Asad Ali 36, Zaheer Abbas 28; Ali Hassan Tariq 4-12, Ibrar Khan 4-16).—Sports Reporter

MP Gymkhana triumph

LAHORE: MP Gymkhana Club beat Aligarh Club by eight wickets to reach the league round of the first OTC Lahore Challenge Cup One-day Club Cricket Tournament at Aligarh Cricket ground on Friday.

Saad Ali’s 80 for MP Gymkhana Club, who were chasing 151, was the highlight of the match.

Summarised scores:

ALIGARH CLUB 150 in 31.1 overs (Iftikhar Hussain 30, Umer Malik 29, Javed Malik 21; Areeb Khalid 3-37, Ibrara Hassan 3-38, Mohammad Saleem 2-14, Mohammad Irshad 2-21); MP GYMKHANA 152-2 in 26.4 overs (Saad Ali 80, Maaz Ahmed 28, Mehboob Ali 22).—Sports Reporter

Shehryar Gul’s Korangi Festival presser on Oct 15

KARACHI: The Deputy Commissioner and Administrator Korangi Shehryar Gul will hold a press conference on Oct 15 to give out detail of the Korangi Sports Festival 2020 at the DC Office.

Meanwhile, the draws for the festival will be taken out on Oct 16 at 5:00pm in the presence of Administrator Korangi, media committee head Mohammad Arshad said on Saturday.

Published in Dawn, October 4th, 2020