KARACHI: Ahmer Bin Nasir struck a fourth successive century to help Dawood Sports annex the Federal Sports Trophy Cricket League title with a clinical rout of Mansoora Sports by 205 runs in the floodlit final at the TMC Ground here the other day.

Ahmer followed scores of 111, 104 and 141 by making 101 from only 89 balls with the aid of 13 boundaries as Dawood posted 247-9 in their 40 overs.

Mansoora Sports, in reply, crumbled against the pace of Adeel Malik, who grabbed five wickets for 15 runs, to be all out for a paltry 42 in 17.5 overs.

Chief guest Prof Ejaz Ahmed Faruqi, the former KCCA president, distributed the prizes at a colourful post-match ceremony.

While Ahmer and Adeel were jointly declared recipients of the man-of-the-match prize, Ahmer was also adjudged best batsman of the competition after amassing 457 runs, Federal Sports’ Nooruddin won the best bowler award for claiming 15 wickets while Dawood Sports young all-rounder Fahaddis Bukhari clinched player-of-the-tournament after taking 10 wickets and scoring 97 runs.

Dawood Sports skipper Saeed Bin Nasir received the winners’ trophy with the runners-up trophy bagged by Jahanzaib, captain of Mansoora Sports.

Also present on the occasion were Mohammad Akram, Jamil Ahmed, M. Touseef Siddiqui, Javed Ahmed Khan, Sohail Talib and a large numbers of Cricketers and KCCA Zonal officials.

Summarised scores:

DAWOOD SPORTS 247-9 in 40 overs (Ahmer Bin Nasir 101, Saeed Bin Nasir 31, Ali Shah 25, Atif Ali Zaidi 25; Mohammad Akif 3-28, Zohaib Ali Khan 2-42); MANSOORA SPORTS 42 in 17.5 overs (Mohib Ahsan 13; Adeel Malik 5-15, Junaid Naeem 2-2, Faisal Tahir 2-4).

Published in Dawn, March 27th, 2018