T20 match: MPAs overcome Punjab lawmakers

ABBOTTABAD: Parliamentarians from K-P and Punjab tested their cricketing skills in a T-20 match at the PCB Academy in Abbottabad on Sunday. The K-P team won the match by a convincing 50 runs. The winning side was led by former provincial minister Shaukat Yousufzai. Punjab put the K-P team into bat after winning the toss. MPAs from the north scored 197 in their 20 overs. Former provincial minister Ali Amin Gandapur scored a half century off just 17 balls.

From Punjab, Waqas took four wickets and gave 36 runs, while Adnan top-scored with 90 runs. However, Punjab could only manage to make 147 runs from 17.2 overs.

Shah Farman took three wickets and gave just nine for K-P, while Gandapur also contributed with the ball and bagged two wickets for 16 runs. He also took two catches and was declared the man of the match.

Published in The Express Tribune, May 30^th, 2016.