Karachi Kings Won the Super Veterans Match

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Karachi(Cliff News)Karachi Kings Won the 8th Super Veterans (Over 60) T/20 Festival Cricket Match against Karachi Gymkhana Super Veterans by 63 runs played at theKarachi Gymkhana Cricket Ground on Sunday.Karachi Gymkhana won the toss and put Karachi Kings into bat. Karachi Kings opened the innings with Skipper ArifHabib and Philips Dias. They put an opening wicket partnership of 73 runs before scoring 175 runs for the loss of only 2 wickets in the allotted 20overs.Mehmood Rasheed younger brother of former Test player HaroonRasheed played an entertaining innings of 54 n.o. in only 32 balls with 1 six and4 fours.Philips Dias scored 42 runs in 35 balls with 3 fours, Col (Rtd) Billah Scored 37 n.o. in 23 balls with 3 fours and ArifHabib was unfortunately run out on 25runs. Abid Bukhari took 1 Wicket for 26 runs.Batting second Karachi Gymkhana could not keep pace with the required run rateof Karachi Kings and could only score 112 runs for the loss of 3 wickets in theallotted 20 overs.Dr.Anjum Fazal was retired hurt on 42 runs in 55balls.Dr.Mumtaz Khan and SaleemParekh scored 22 and 14 respectively. Former Test Player Ejaz Faquih could only score 1 run.For Karachi Kings Moinuddin,Col (Rtd)Billah and Jamil Karimi took 1 Wicket each for 6,17 and 17 runs respectively.At the conclusion of the Match prize distribution ceremony was held which was Presided by Chairman Pakistan Veterans Cricket Association Mr. Fawad Ijaz Khan,Mr.Hussain Lawai Vice Chairman Summit Bank (Chief Guest),Mr.Fawad Salim Malik President Karachi Gymkhana(Guest ofHonour),Former Test player SaleemYousuf,Nadeem Omar Franchise Owner Quetta Gladiators,Arif Hanib ChairmanArif Habib Group,Brig (Rtd)Salahuddin,Ahsan Abbasi,Jam Nafeesand Alamgir Ahmed also attended the Ceremony. Arif Habib got the winnersTrophy and Altaf Agha Runners up Trophy.Col.(Rtd) Billah got man of theMatch,Mehmood Rasheed (Best Batsman) Jamil Karimi (Best Bowler)and Saleem Parekh Best (Fielder).