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Etisalat Trophy Day 13 and 14: Kabul cruises to semi-finals beating Logar and Ghazni
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01.06.2010 16:00
Kabul’s provincial team has proven its right to be in semi-finals by beating strong Logar yesterday and lucky Ghazni today qualifying from group C.
Yesterday Kabul and Logar clashed at the National Youth Cricket Ground here in Kabul. Kabul won the toss and elected to field first. Logar struggled to put score on the board as it was all out for 135 in 35.4 overs. Kabul chased the 136 target in 28.4 overs for 8 wickets winning by 2 wickets and qualified to the quarter-finals that was played today.
Brief score card of day 13:
Team Runs Overs Lost Wickets
Logar 135 35.4 10
Kabul 136 28.4 8
Ghazni has qualified to quarterfinals by draw without playing any matches. Today Kabul won the toss and elected to bat first. It had a good beginning as it scored 117 for losing two wickets in the first 22 overs. Its core has gone up and up when pace bowler Aftab Alam has shown his batting talent hitting 5 sixes taking Kabul’s score to 246 in 42nd over. Said Arafat of Kabul made 79 runs from 47 balls. Kabul made 348 for 9 wickets in 50 overs.
Ghazni had troubled start by losing first wicket in the second over, second wicket in the 5th over, and third wicket in 10th over. Bahadur Khan of Ghazni made a decent score of 88 runs that help Ghazni to reach 201, all out in 36th over losing to Kabul by 147 runs.
Kabul is third to qualify for semi-finals. Panjshir has qualified from group A and Laghman from group B.
Tomorrow will see the first match of group D between Zabul and Nuristan. As usual the match will be telecasted live by Shamshad TV.
Brief score card of day 14:
Team Runs Overs Lost Wickets
kabul 348 50 9
Ghazni201 36 10
TCP
01.06.2010 16:00
Kabul’s provincial team has proven its right to be in semi-finals by beating strong Logar yesterday and lucky Ghazni today qualifying from group C.
Yesterday Kabul and Logar clashed at the National Youth Cricket Ground here in Kabul. Kabul won the toss and elected to field first. Logar struggled to put score on the board as it was all out for 135 in 35.4 overs. Kabul chased the 136 target in 28.4 overs for 8 wickets winning by 2 wickets and qualified to the quarter-finals that was played today.
Brief score card of day 13:
Team Runs Overs Lost Wickets
Logar 135 35.4 10
Kabul 136 28.4 8
Ghazni has qualified to quarterfinals by draw without playing any matches. Today Kabul won the toss and elected to bat first. It had a good beginning as it scored 117 for losing two wickets in the first 22 overs. Its core has gone up and up when pace bowler Aftab Alam has shown his batting talent hitting 5 sixes taking Kabul’s score to 246 in 42nd over. Said Arafat of Kabul made 79 runs from 47 balls. Kabul made 348 for 9 wickets in 50 overs.
Ghazni had troubled start by losing first wicket in the second over, second wicket in the 5th over, and third wicket in 10th over. Bahadur Khan of Ghazni made a decent score of 88 runs that help Ghazni to reach 201, all out in 36th over losing to Kabul by 147 runs.
Kabul is third to qualify for semi-finals. Panjshir has qualified from group A and Laghman from group B.
Tomorrow will see the first match of group D between Zabul and Nuristan. As usual the match will be telecasted live by Shamshad TV.
Brief score card of day 14:
Team Runs Overs Lost Wickets
kabul 348 50 9
Ghazni201 36 10
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