KARACHI, Dec 14: A brilliant century by Khalid Latif helped KCCA Zone-IV to beat Zone-1 by 27 runs in the KCCA Inter-zonal cricket tournament match played at Quaid- i-Azam Park of Pakistan Steel Town on Friday.

Khalid Latif’s 108 included 13 boundaries and three sixes. Nasir Aziz (83) another batsman of the side was unlucky to reach the three figure.

Left arm spinner Akhtar Hussain scalped six batsmen for 55.

In another match played at Asghar Ali Shah Stadium Zone-III beat Zone-VII by 22 runs.

M. Zafar played the sheet achore role for victory of his team with scoring 85 run including nine fours and a six.

In the last match of the day Zone-VI achieved three wickets victory against Zone-V thanks to fine allround performance by Rizwan Qureshi.

Summarised Scores:

Zone-IV: 247/6 in 50 overs (Khalid Latif 108, Nasir Aziz 83; Faraz Ahmed 3-30)

Zone-I: 220 for nine in 50 overs (Faraz Ahmed 50, Azmat Ali 47;, Akhtar Hussain 6-55).

Zone-III 229/4 50 overs (M. Zafar 85 n.o. Ibrahim Qureshi 42, Khalid Malik 29; Raheel Waris 2-62).

Zone-VII 207 all-out in 44.4 overs (Faraz Patel 62 n.o. Misbah Khan 28, Adeel Malik 4-59.

Zone-V: 223 all out in 50 overs (Shahid Hussain 83, Ghazanfar Ahmed 39, Wajid Ali 35, Ch. Sajjad Ahmed 29; Rizwan Qureshi 3-64, M. Imran 2-25, Iftikhar Ali 2-63).

Zone-VI 224 for seven in 46 overs (Rizwan Qureshi 68, Shahid Ayoub 37, S. M. Babar 31, M. Imran 20 n.o; M. Ali Naqvi 2-36, Nadeem Babar 2-56)—APP