LAHORE: Four cricket teams - Nestle Industry, Raaziq Int’l, Allied Bank and Abacus thrashed their respective opponents in the Pepsi Cola CPL T20 Championship 2017 at several venues of the city while four teams Zephyr, Zameen.com, Intech and Atlus Copco were crashed out of the event. In the first match of the day, Allied Bank outclassed Intech by 8 wickets. Batting first, Intech were all out for 106 runs while Allied Bank replied strongly and achieved the target for the loss of 2 wickets, with Rizwan Aslam emerging as man of the match. The second match saw Abacus routing Zameen.com by 40 runs. Abacus, batting first, scored 176 runs and in reply, Zameen.com could score 136 runs. Nabeel Sikander won the player of the match award. Nestle Industry thrashed Atlus Copco by 85 runs. Thanks to Ateeq-ur-Rehman (65) and M Umar (38), Nestle posted 163 runs on the board but Atlus couldn’t reply well and were bowled out for paltry 78 runs. Mubashir Hussain (5-14) was named man of the match. In the last match of the day, Raaziq International outsmarted Zephyr by 33 runs. Helped by captain Mishal Rehman (59), Raaziq International set 147-run target for Zephyr team, which could score 112 runs in the allotted overs. Raaziq captain Mishal was declared player of the match. CPL chairman bade farewell to the outgoing teams by awarding them shields and souvenirs while he hoped that the surviving teams would play out their hearts and make the event more exciting and enthralling through their performances.
