Khalid Butt of IDB, Aftab of MCC and Abdullah Essa of Zultec smashed tons, while Samer bagged his first hat trick in the Afternoon League Summer Tournament being organized by the Western Province Cricket Association (WPCA) here. My Care Hala Green, Pak Kashmir, Fuchs Alhamrani, Zultrack, IDB and MCC won their respective matches in the league. The first match saw Fuchs Alhamrani beat Al-Safree XI by six wickets. Al-Safree XI scored 181-7 in 20 overs as Sayed made 57, Muneeb 35 and Zahid 18. Fuchs was home with 185-4 as Irfan Anjum scored 45, Mukhtar remained unbeaten on 42, Rashid hit 25 and Jubban remained unbeaten on 31. The second match saw IDBG beat Marine Services by 73 runs. IDB's Khalid Butt was in prime form as he remained unbeaten on 132 off 50 balls and Ramazan hit 64 off 33 balls as the two added 209 runs for the second wicket off 84 balls to rack up 248. Marine Services could score only 175-9 through Tahir 63, Kashif 32 and Riaz 27. Khalid Butt took 2-25 and Asif 2-28. The third match saw Zultrack score a three-wicket win over Munch Bakery. Opting to bat first Munch Bakery scored 180-5 as Mubashir hit 66, Mubeen was 33 not out and Rana Shahzad added 21. Rashid scalped 2-24 and Aleem 2-27. Zultrack was home with 182-7 as Khadim made 51 and Ali scored 45, while Tariq Jamal grabbed 2-43. Another match saw MCC handed Juffali AMI an 8-wicket thrashing. Juffali put on 157-6 in 18 overs through Imran 68 and Nadeem 24 as Asif took 2-3. MCC in reply reached the target for the loss of two wickets as lefty Aftab Khan smashed an unbeaten 104 (4 sixes and 11 fours) and fellow opener Amer Shahzad hit 22. My Care Hala Green beat Pak Mecca XI by 45 runs. My Care Hala Green, opting to bat first, piled up 163-6 through Salman 41, Azhar 22 while Owais and Osama had identical scores of 18. Majid bagged 3-36. Pak Mecca XI in reply was bowled out for 118 with Umair top scoring with 40 as Attaurrehman grabbed four wickets for 21 runs and Farhad claimed three wickets for 26 runs. Another match saw Pak Kashmir beat United by six wickets. Pak Kashmir chased down the required runs (169) for the loss of four wickets as Waqas smashed 79 and Ahmed Shah remained unbeaten on 55 to take the team to the podium. Aihab took 2-7. In the new Summer Premier tournament AOT GFC beat Zultec by a slender margin of three runs despite a fantastic hat trick by Samer and a century by Abdullah Essa. AOT GFC batting first racked up 211-9 with Faisal making 57, Ilyas 54 and Amer Shahzad 52. Samer of Zultec registered a hat trick in his only over to register figures of 3-7 as Abdullah Essa bagged 2-38. Zultec in reply had Essa hammering 8 sixes and 6 fours to get to 100 off 40 balls and reached to 208 but lost by three runs. Nasir Iqbal took 2-21, Qaiser 2-47 and Zeeshan 2
