Omar Trophy knockout stage begins

KARACHI: The Omar Trophy Inter-School Cricket Tournament 2016, being organised by the Pakistan Veterans Cricket Association (PVCA), has reached the knockout stage on the conclusion of 48 league matches.

The tournament, contested by 32 teams, which got underway at the Karachi Gymkhana Cricket Ground on September 1, will end at the National Stadium, Karachi, on November 13.

Both the semi-finals, also to be staged at the National Stadium on November 11 and 12, and the final, will be televised live.

All the four quarter-finals will be played at Naya Nazimabad Lawai Stadium.

In the first quarter-final, Qadri Model School beat St Patrick High School by six wickets.

In the remaining quarter-finals, Kamran Public School will take on Oasis English Secondary School, Fahad Academy will lock horns with Ebrahim Ali Bhai School and Beaconhouse School System will combat Springfield School.

This is for the eighth time that the PVCA has organised the Inter-Schools tournament in Karachi, having launched it in 1999.