JEDDAH — Debutants Kashmir Stags and MB Stars won their matches in the 4th week of the Jotun League sponsored by Jotun Saudi Arabia and organized by JCA. Kashmir Stags beat Huta Group by 27 runs and MB Stars got the better of favorite Eirad Travel by 6 wickets. In other matches, Al-Khulais trounced Blossom by 51 runs and Jamoom Fighters prevailed over Kashmir-XI by 7 wickets. Al-Khulais-XI put on an impressive total of 227-6 against Blossom. Jawaid (62 — 27 balls, 7 fours, 5 sixes), Hafiz Ismail (unbeaten 56 — 31 balls, 5 fours, 2 sixes), with good contribution from Irshad (26), Shahzad (28 not out) and Adnan (20) were the main contributors. Sajeed took 2-45. In reply, Blossom was all out for 176. Yasir made a brilliant 92 off 48 balls with 15 fours and 2 sixes. He got good support from Sajeed (21) and A. Raheem (20). Irshad was the wrecker in chief, taking 5-20 and Bilal 2-26. Kashmir Stags beat Huta Group by 27 runs. Kashmir Stags were restricted to 159-8 Danish (37), Nahid (27) and Samit (32 not out) were the prominent scorers. Rizwan claimed 2-31, Luqman 2-33 and Tahir 2-23. In reply, Huta Group was bundled out for 132. Adnan (30) and Tahir (45) were the only batsmen to offer some resistance. Samit tied the rival down with 4-23, while Danish and Tariq took 2 wickets each for 9 and 2, respectively. Jamoom Fighters beat Kashmir-X1 by 7 wickets. Kashmir-XI tallied 158-8. Sami (27), Gowhar (49) batted well. Waseem took 2-25, while Adnan, Usman, Saeed and Waseem got one wicket each. In reply, Jamoom Fighters romped home scoring 160-3. Umar Saleem led the fightback with an unbeaten 52 off 46 balls with 6 fours. Abdul Malik made 37 and Waseem 24. Sami claimed 2-36. MB Stars beat Eirad Travel by 6 wickets. Eirad Travel, batting first, scored 177-8. Qasid (27), Zulfiqar (26) were the main scorers as Imran and Babar Azam pegged them down taking 2 wickets each for 20 and 25, respectively. In reply, MB Stars knocked off the required runs (178) for the loss of 4 wickets.
