Akhtar, Osama furnish wins

Published May 23, 2007

KARACHI, May 22: Akhtar Faheem cracked a fine century and Osama Basharat picked up six wickets for Zone III Whites and Zone V Whites respectively as both the teams won their matches against Zone IV Greens and Zone I Blues in the KCCA Inter-zonal Under-19 Cricket Tournament on Monday.

Summarised scores:

ZONE III WHITES 321-6 in 50 overs (Akhtar Faheem 112, Humayun Alamgir 47, Tauseef Khan 33; Adil Khan 2-71, Wajahat Muttaqi 2-76, Ahsan Malik 2-90); ZONE IV GREENS 109 in 22.1 overs (Adnan Majeed 55, Hasan Ali 28; Humayun Alamgir 3-17, S M Zafar 2-18, Jibran Yousuf 2-27, Bilal Mohiuddin 2-43).

ZONE I BLUES 200 in 48.1 overs (Ahsan Iqbal 29, Majid Rizvi 26, Faizan Hussain 20; Osama Basharat 6-66); ZONE V WHITES 201-9 in 49.3 overs (Saad Hussain 47, Junaid Taimori 36, M Zohaib 27; Farhan Anwar 5-78, Majid Rizvi 3-58).

ZONE VI WHITES 203 in 39.3 overs (Rehan Azam 42, Zakir Afridi 39, Abdullah Shah 20, M Hasan 20; Azhar Shah 3-54, Rahat Jafri 2-15, Farooq Lodhi 2-37); ZONE VII BLUES 112 in 36.2 overs (Mohammad Waqas 44, Mohammad Faisal 19; Wasim Ali 4-9, Mohammad Kamran 4-25).—APP

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