LAHORE, Jan 12 (APP): NCA Youth XI, rode on a quick fired century (105)
by their captain Nasir Nawaz , beat the visiting Malaysian
team by six wickets in the last one day match to make a clean sweep
of 3-0 in the series here on Thursday at Gadaffi stadium.
The home side won the opening match by seven wickets followed
by six wickets win to outplay the touring side in all departments
of t5he game. The Malaysian side is on a ten day preparatory visit
of Pakistan and they will play two T20 matches.
The touring captain Ahmed Faiz won the toss for third successive
time and elected to bat first. The visitors piled 272 for the loss
of six wickets in 45 overs with Ahmed scoring a magnificent
unbeaten 139. The home side answered with 273 for 4 in 37.3 overs
for a superb win.
The home team inning builder Nasir Nawaz played a breezy knock
to underline his talent with a variety of shots consuming 67 balls, hammering a dozen of fours and three mighty sixes before openers
provided a solid platform to the run chase and scored 50 runs inside
eight overs.
The openers Zaid Alam and Abdullah Shafiq scored 66 and 35, respectively. Zahid stroked five fours and two sixes in 62 balls
to complete a well deserved half century. Muhammad Saleem added 37
Haris Sohail scored 21 off 12 balls with two sixes before getting
out to the leg-spinner Rashid Ahad who took 2 wickets for 64 runs
in nine overs. Rashid two for 64 and Shukir 1 for 42 and Wafiq one
for 46 were the other wicket takers from Malaysia.
Earlier, Malaysian teams’ top scorer Ahmad helped his side to
post a good total, smashing 13 fours and six sixes in 125 balls
and offered maximum resistance by making light of the home bowling. Syahadat Ramly (29) and Syed Aziz (20) were the other notable
scorers of the visiting side.
Nasir Nawaz, who also captained Pakistan U-19 team in the Junior
Asia Cup recently while talking to APP in his post match comments
said, “It was a good match practice for the home team which was
mainly consisted of U-19 players. The visitors had given a great
fight and it was a good omen that the our batsmen were chasing
the target well. I hope the U-19 players will learn a lot from
the series and rejuvenate them for the upcoming junior World Cup”.
Brief scores.
Malaysia: 272-6-10 in 45 overs (Ahmed Faiz 139*, 13x4s, 6x6s, 125 balls, Syed Aziz 20, 4x4s, 1×6, 22 balls, Syahadat Ramly 29, 3X4s,45 balls, Salman Irshad 3-58, Nasir Nawaz 2-51Haris Sohail 1-31 ).
NCA youth XI: 273-4 in 37.3 overs (Nasir Nawaz 105*, 12x4s, 3x6s, 67 balls, Zahid Alam 66, 5x4s, 2x6s, 62 balls, Muhammad Saleem 37*, 5x4s, 38 balls, Haris Sohail 21, 2x6s, 12 balls, Rashid Ahad 2-64, Shukri 1-42, Wafiq Irfan 1-46).
Umpires: Abdul Muqeet & Muhammad Basit ,Scorer: Azhar Hussain.
The prime minister on this occasion also distributed the NHP Cards
among the registered persons.
Minister of National Health Services Regulations and
Coordination Saira Afzal Tarar said the PML-N government was
fulfilling all its promises made with the people during election
campaign.
She said the PM’s Health Insurance Scheme was culmination
of a dream and a unique programme of its kind in the world.
She said poor segments of the society had been targeted in it, adding that it was a pro-women programme which would help reduce child and mother
mortality rate in the country.
She said the programme was being monitored with the help of
NADRA to make it transparent.
Tarar said the programme had been launched for the entire
Pakistan but unfortunately two provinces were still not part of
it.
She invited the two provinces to come forward and put its share
in this noble cause.
Minister for Planning and Development Ahsan Iqbal said the
people of Narowal always stood with the PML-N and in the 2013
general elections they elected 100 percent PML-N’s candidates.
He said when the PML-N took reign of power in 2013, Pakistan
was confronted with multiple problems and challenges but due to
sagacious policies of the government the country had been put on the
road to progress.
He said the international financial institutions were praising
Pakistan’s economic growth and policies and one of the leading
financial journal Economist has included Pakistan in the five
growing economies of the world, adding that all this was possible
due to sagacious policies of Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif.
He said this programme was a great step by present government
towards making Pakistan a welfare state.
He said the PM’s Health Insurance Scheme had been launched for those people of the society who were living below the poverty line, adding that under this scheme the poor segments of the society had been able to get
standard health care.
Ahsan Iqbal lauded efforts of the prime minister in fields of
education and health and requested him to issue order for conducting
a survey of the widows and orphan children in the country and the
government should take care of them.
Punjab Health Minister Khawaja Salman Rafiq said 3.5
million people would be benefitted in district Rahim Yar Khan from
this programme.
Punjab Finance Minister Dr. Ayesha Ghaus Pasha said the
government had fulfilled its another promise with the people.
She said 525,000 families would get benefit from this scheme in
district Rahim Yar Khan.
She said in district Khanewal 231,000 families or 924,000
individuals were getting benefit from this programme which was a
proof of the prime minister’s and Punjab chief minister’s vision of
health.
She said the PM’s NHP would be rolled out in other districts
of Punjab during this year.
