Afzal’s heroics go in vain

Published October 8, 2007

KARACHI, Oct 7: Despite a fine knock of 64 by Mirza Afzal Baig, AKU ‘A’ suffered an agonizing four-run defeat in the second semi-final against Woodwords of the AKU Twenty20 Ramazan Colour-kit cricket tournament at the AKU Sports Centre Ground on Saturday.

Woodwords, batting first, scored 152 and restricted their opponents to 148 for nine in reply.

Summarised scores:

WOODWORDS 152 in 20 overs (Rizwan Khan 32, Athar Abid 31; Shiraz Ahmed 3-29, Amman Aziz 2-28); AKU ‘A’ 148-9 in 20 overs (Mirza Afzal Baig 64, Amman Aziz 44; Yousuf Ahmed 2-30).

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