Spinner Usama stars in big win

KARACHI: Former first-class spinner Usama Basharat excelled with five wickets for 15 runs as MS United sealed a crushing 104-run victory over Shah Town Gymkhana in the Master CT 20 Colour Kit Cricket League at the RLCA Ground here on Tuesday.

Meanwhile, Mohammad Daniyal played back-to-back knocks of 91 and 87 but still failed to save Sherdil Punjab Club losing both their opening fixtures.

Summarised scores:

MS United beat Shah Town Gymkhana by 104 runs.

MS UNITED 169-7 in 20 overs (Ejaz Shah 65 9x4, Daniyal Liaquat 37, Fareed Shah 26; Mohammad Shahzaib 3-19); SHAH TOWN GYMKHANA 65 in 12.2 overs (Usama Basharat 5-15, Saqib Khan 3-16).

Rohi CC beat Sherdil Punjab Club by 20 runs.

Rohi CC 180-8 in 20 overs (Akmal Kamal 78, Haji Yasir 39, Imran Shahid 24; Mohammad Bilal 3-8, Mohammad Asad 2-29, Mohammad Aamir 2-38); SHERDIL PUNJAB CLUB 160-7 in 20 overs (Mohammad Daniyal 91; Adnan Shahid 2-44).

MAHD Sports beat Sherdil Punjab Club by 32 runs.

MAHD SPORTS 195-5 in 20 overs (Lal Kumar 50, Hamza Qadir 47, Haris Khanzada 40; Mohammad Bilal 2-45); SHERDIL PUNJAB CLUB 163-6 in 20 overs (Mohammad Daniyal 87, Mohammad Amir 20; Ikram-ul-Haq 2-33, Mohammad Salman 2-28).

KL Panthers beat KL Wolves by eight wickets.

KL WOLVES 118 in 19 overs (Mirza Afzal Baig 38, Kamran Ali 24, Ali Butt 20; Mohammad Usman 3-21, Zafar Ali Khan 2-12, Farman Shah 2-22); KL PANTHERS 119-2 in 18.2 overs (Wasif Akhtar 64 not out, Zohaib Khan 31, Qadir Khan 23; Aleem Ahmed 2-16).—Sports Reporter

Brodie, Carranza shine at Polo Cup

LAHORE: Diamond Paints/FG Polo and Master Paints Black recorded comfortable victories in the Total Nutrition Polo Cup here at the Lahore Polo Club ground on Wednesday.

Diamond Paints/FG Polo comfortably defeated Pebble Breaker 8-1 1/2. Tom Brodie struck four goals for the winners while Mian Abbas Mukhtar and Saqib Khan Khakwani scored a brace each.

The losing side, which had a half-goal handicap advantage, earned their only goal through Amirreza Behboudi.

Meanwhile, Master Paints Black in a one-sided match defeated AOS 10-5 1/2.

Mannuel Carranza fired in fantastic five goals while Ignacio Vincent also impressed with a hat-trick. Sufi Haroon and Raja Taimur Nadeem contributed with a goal each.

For AOS, which had one-and-a-half goal handicap, Guy Gibrat hammered a hat-trick and Hamza Ali score one.—Sports Reporter

Shahbaz to lead Karachi in Invitational Hockey

KARACHI: Talented Shahbaz Ali will lead the Karachi hockey team in the First All Sindh Syed Khurshid Ahmad Shah Invitational Hockey, to be held in People’s Hockey Stadium in Sukkur from this week.

Karachi squad: Aamir Hussain, Alyan Saleem, Abdul Razaq, Ali Afreedi, Shahbaz Ali (Captain), Arbaaz Ayaz, Hammad Ayaz, Shahzaib Khan, Haris Naseer, Sultan Mahmood, Khizer Ilyas, Fareed Mansoor, Shahzeb Arbab, Hassan Ali, Nowshad Ali, Abdul Wahab Umar Shafiq, Faizan Badr while the manager will be Zahid Anwar Baig and coaches Asim Khan and Tariq Masood.—Agencies

Australia’s lone-time swim coach Talbot dies

SYDNEY: Long-time former Australia coach Don Talbot has died age 87, with the swimming world on Wednesday remembering him as a legend of the sport who oversaw his country’s golden era in the pool.

Talbot passed away peacefully on Tuesday.

He began his coaching career in the 1950s and was Australia’s head swimming coach during its peak in the 1990s and 2000s — including at the 2000 Sydney Olympics when Australia produced their best result in almost 30 years by winning 18 medals.

Published in Dawn, November 5th, 2020