KARACHI, July 21: Sajid Ali’s brilliant century coupled with Syed Farooq’s superb bowling enabled Zone-I Whites to register a thumping 122-run win against District Lasbela in a KCCA Inter-zonal Under-17 tournament match at the Asghar Ali Shah Stadium on Friday.

Sajid hammered a beautiful 105 and Anwar Amin made 62 as Zone-I Whites totalled 257-6 in the allotted 50 overs. Atiq-ur-Rehman and Danesh Kumar captured two wickets apiece.

District Lasbela, in response, could post 135 before being dismissed in 48 overs. Left-arm spinner Syed Farooq demolished the opponents’ batting with excellent figures of 6-29.

In the other match of the day, Zone-I Blues defeated Zone-VII Blues by five wickets at the TMC ground due to good batting by Qazi Hasnain (50) for the winners.

Summarised scores:

ZONE-I WHITES 257-6 in 50 overs (Sajjad Ali 105, Anwar Amin 62, Umar Imtiaz 30, Waqas Khan 25; Atiq-ur-Rehman 2-50, Danesh Kumar 2-53); DISTRICT LASBELA 135 in 48 overs (Abdul Faheem 22, Danesh Kumar 16, Abdul Ghaffar 16; Syed Farooq 6-29).

ZONE-VII BLUES 166 in 49.1 overs (Bilal Ashfaq 49, Saad Maqsood 26; Zahid Fareed 3-20, A Ghani 2-42, Waqas Kharadi 2-44); ZONE-I BLUES 167-5 in 30.2 overs (Qazi Hasnain 50, Asif Ali 34, Jibran Ahmed 20; Shoaib Rabani 3-32.—PPI