Sports Bulletin Report
KARACHI: The Attock Sports and AZ Real Estate Islamabad teams have moved into the semifinals of Naya Nazimabad Bankers Cup Ramadan Cricket Tournament after winning their respective quarterfinal matches here.
The last two quarter-finals at the Naya Nazimabad Cricket Stadium were low-scoring. Attock Sports defeated Arham CC by 27 runs. Attock Sports posted 130 runs on the board. Shoaib Ahmed played an innings of fifty-three runs off thirty-one balls. Nihal Rashid and Waleed Azim dismissed two players each.
In response, the team of Arham Cricket Club was dismissed on 103 runs. Kashif Bhatti took four wickets and Shahid Mirani took two wickets. Chief guest Faisal Bank President Yousuf Hussain presented Man of the Match Award to Shoaib Ahmed of Attock Sports.
Yusuf Hussain said that his organization would continue to sponsor sports. On this occasion, Chairman Naya Nazimabad Arif Habib said that he wished that Naya Nazimabad was introduced as a sports city.
Later in the fourth quarter-final, AZ Real Estate Islamabad overcame Hella Dos team by 2 runs in an exciting contest. AZ Real Estate scored 126 runs for the loss of eight wickets in the stipulated overs. Owais Zia scored 25 runs and Rizwan Ali scored 22 runs. Tahir Wazir took two wickets.
In pursuit of the target, Hella Doss team scored 124 runs for nine wickets. Obaid Ibrahim scored fifty two runs. Mohammad Azan took three wickets while Mohammad Ismail and Abdullah Amin took two wickets each. Abdullah Amin was declared Man of the Match. The final of the tournament will be played on Sunday.
