Cricket: Elizabeth shines as Lahore win

KARACHI: Elizabeth claimed four wickets to help Lahore to a seven-wicket win against Abbottabad in their Seventh National Women Cricket Championship Group A match at the Marghazar ground, Islamabad. In Group B, Sialkot’s Nazia Nazir scored an unbeaten 91 but her efforts were in vain as Pakistan Board won the match by 13 runs. Elsewhere, spinner Sadia Yousuf took four wickets while Sana Mir scored an unbeaten 33 as ZTBL defeated Peshawar by nine wickets. In other matches, Ayesha Qazi scored an unbeaten 63 as HEC thrashed Karachi by nine wickets, while Umza Younis bagged three wickets and scored 41 runs to lead Faisalabad to an impressive 189-run win over Hyderabad.

Published in The Express Tribune, March 13^th, 2012.