LAHORE, May 02 (APP):Amir Cables scored a thumping eight wicket win over Income Tax Seniors to breeze into the regional quarter finals of the National veterans cricket cup here on Thursday at Shah Faisal ground.
Batted first, Income Tax senior were dismissed at a low total of 139 in 24.3 overs and Amir Cables achieved the target for the loss of two wickets in 15.3 overs.
Income Tax main scorers were Muhammad Younis 25, Qadeer Khan 23, Muhammad Arif 16, Munir Shah 13 and Mehmood Jaffari 16.
Akbar Ali and Ahmad Shahab were the pick of Amir cables bowling claiming four wickets apiece for 26 and 52 runs respectively .Waqas Ahmad and Javed Khan took one wicket each.
Man of the match, Ahmad Shahab struck 65 solid runs followed by equally good 50 from Zahoor Elahi to set up Ami Cables fine win . Ashraf Ali made 12 runs. Qadeer Khan and Zahid Khan got one wicket each from Income Tax.
CEO Amir Cables, Amir Ilyas Butt gave away man of the match award to Ahmad Shahab. Zameer Haider and Muhammad Asif stood as umpires and Sajid Usman was the scorer.