Challengers won the toss and chose to bat first. Panthers opened the bowling with spinner’s Salman Ahmed & Mohammad Asad. Challengers struggled against the spin. Eventually they were bowled out for 163 in the 33rd over. Top scoring for Challengers was Syed Salman who scored 37 and the next highest score was by Burkhan with 27 runs.
Nousherwan Adil had 5 for 25. Photo by Shiek Mohamed
Nousherwan Adil was the pick of the bowlers with 5 wickets for 25 runs in 7 overs. Salman Ahmed, Asim, Asad, and Imran each picked up 1 wicket.
Chasing 164 Panthers got off to a horrendous start with top 3 batmen getting out for 0. For Challengers the pick of the bowlers was Burkhan who picked up 2 wickets in the first over and finished with figures of 7-1-30-2. From 6/3 entered Salman Ahmed and Salik Iqbal who shared an unbeaten partnership of 160.
Salman Ahmed scored a classy 63 not out and Salik Iqbal scored an unbeaten 80 runs. With 2 runs needed Salman Ahmed finished things off with a 4 to complete a 7 wicket win in the 28th over.