KARACHI, Aug 23: Zone-I and Zone-II Whites advanced to the semifinals of the KCCA Inter-zonal under-17 cricket championship after comfortable victories on Monday.

At the TMC ground, Zone-I Whites beat Zone-VI Whites by 44 runs with off-spinner Tabish Nawab taking four wickets for 38 runs.

Zone-II Whites whipped Zone-VII Blues by 58 runs in the other match at Student ground.

Farhan Rafiq slammed 85 with 13 boundaries while left-arm spinner Adnan Malik took five wickets for 48 and wicket-keeper Tauseef Bhopali had three victims behind the stumps.

Summarized scores:

Zone-I (W) bt Zone-VI (W) by 4 runs.

ZONE-I (W) 190 (Anan Afab 38, Omer Butt 31, Ehtesham Shami 4-49)

ZONE-VI (W) 146 (Zakir Afridi 26, Azher Shah 25, Tabish Nawab 4-38, Amjad Mansoor 2-56)

Zone-II (W) bt Zone-VII (B) by 58 runs.

ZONE-II (W) 205 (Farhan Rafiq 85, Nazish Ghous 29, Jabbar Khan 22, Anwar Afridi 4-41, Ahsan Mirza 2-47)

ZONE-VII (B) (Anwar Afridi 49, Shuaib Nasim 42, Hamid 22, Adnan Malik 5-48, Junaid Ilyas 3-54).—APP