KARACHI, Feb 27: Adeel Abbasi’s superb all-round performance steered Iqra University to the Inter-university cricket tournament semi-finals, after an exciting 15-run victory over Dadabhoy University at the PCB Academy Ground on Tuesday.

Adeel first struck 13 boundaries and three sixes in his 121-run knock and later took three wickets for 40 runs to help Iqra University restrict Dadabhoy to 207 all out in 37.5 overs. Iqra, earlier, had made 222 all out off 39.2 overs.

In the semi-finals Karachi University will take on IBT University while Sir Syed University will play Iqra.

Summarised scores:

IQRA UNIVERSITY 222 in 39.2 overs (Adeel Abbasi 121, Humza-ul-Hasan 28, Zubair Ahmed 24; Danish Khan 3-37, Izhar Ali 3-34, Sohail Mazhar 3-49); DADABHOY UNIVERSITY 207 in 37.5 overs (Sohail Mazhar 48, Yusha Khan 44, Hassan Siddiqui 39; Rehan Hanif 3-30, Adeel Abbasi 3-40).—APP