Athar excels

Published September 23, 2007

KARACHI, Sept 22: A fine all-round show by Athar Abid enabled Woodward beat DIB by 13 runs in the 3rd AKU Twenty20 Ramazan Colour-kit cricket tournament at the AKU Sports Centre Cricket Ground on Friday.

Athar scored 32 and took three for 30. But his team-mate Khalid Butt was adjudged Man-of-the-Match for making 41 and taking one wicket.

Summarised scores:

WOODWARD 192-8 in 20 overs (Khalid Butt 41, Athar Abid 32, Junaid Khalil 30, Wasif Feroz 22; Adnan Ahmed 3-44, Rashid Azeem 2-41); DIB 179-9 in 20 overs (Shoaib Akhtar 63, Adnan Ahmed 39 not out, Asif Siddiqui 27; Rizwan Khan 4-23, Athar Abid 3-30).

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