KARACHI, Sept 4: Enjoying the services of seasoned campaigners, Data Steel snatched the Yousuf Dada bridge tournament by accumulating 126 victory points at the Aslam Memorial bridge hall on Sunday.

Data Steel having Rashid-ul-Ghazi, Parvez Mirza, Shauq Hussain, Imran Jaka, Sultan Siddiqui under great thinker Tariq Rasheed Khan in their fold, came on top despite losing the last match after having notched-up six victories in the 18-team competition.Earlier, they beat Saleem-IV 20-10, played a draw 15-15 against Shipyard, emerge narrow 16-14 winner against Makeshift and outpaced Abedies 20-10.

In the fifth round they pitched up against Ahmed-IV and defeated 21-9.

Data Steel gave the same treatment to Gulzar Bilal's team, winning the match 21-9.

When play resumed for the fourth round, Candyland leading the bunch of 18 teams felt intensity of the game and lost.

Splendid could only be the word describing the performance of Saleem-IV. Having started with a deficit score against Abedies 12-18, the team having Ghulam Mohammad, Anis-ur-Rehman, Shahab Sarki under the captaincy of Saleem Zaki recovered in the very next match against Shipyard 21-9.

Saleem defeated Ladies Plus with the same score and lost to Data Steel 10-20.

Saleem played draw 15-15 against EFU then won matches against Candyland 21-9 and Gulzar Bilal 20-10 to claim runners-up position with 120 victory points.

This team had a new partnership of Anis-Shahab Sarki.

Tehsin scored 118 victory points and were restricted to third position.—APP