Minhaj CC opened their league campaign in Match Eight of the Cataluyna season with a seven wicket victory over Cataluyna Tigers.
Winning the toss the Tigers elected to bat and were all out for 148 in the penultimate over of their innings.
Opener Saqid scored a swashbuckling 53 from 32 balls and he was supported briefly by Khalid (26) and Thiar (20) but a lower order collapse was to prove expensive.
All five bowlers used by Minhaj took at least one wicket in what was a great all round fielding and bowling performance.
In reply Minhaj overtook the Tigers total with ten overs to spare. Half centurions Asjid 56 and Safaraz 51 were the main contributors to give their team a winning start in this years competition.
Minhaj (10 points) beat Cataluyna Tigers (0 points) by 7 wickets.
Tigers 148 all out (Saqib 52) Minhaj 149 for 3 (Asjid 56, Safaraz 51)
| CRICKET ESPANA LEAGUE MATCH REPORT FORM | 2015 | |||||
| CATALUYNA TIGERS | VERSUS (away team) | MINHAJ | ||||
| Apr-15 | Venue | MONTJUIC | ||||
| Umpires | NASSER – YASIR | |||||
| CATALUYNA TIGERS | Scorer | MANIQIE ALI | ||||
| Name of Batsman | How out | Bowler | Total Score | |||
| (give initial first) | ||||||
| 1 Ghulam Sawar | ct | Farhad | 3 | |||
| 2 Saqib | Run Out | Asjid | 52 | |||
| 3 Nisar | ct | Safaraz | 3 | |||
| 4 Khalid | Bowled | Aamir | 26 | |||
| 5 Thiar | Bowled | Nadeem | 20 | |||
| 6 Samar | ct | Nouman | 1 | |||
| 7 Javed | Bowled | Nouman | 18 | |||
| 8 Mohsin | ct | Aamir | 1 | |||
| 9 Aamir | Run Out | Asjid | 0 | |||
| 10 Asif | lbw | Nadeem | 0 | |||
| 11 Shakeel | not out | 1 | ||||
| Extras 19 | Penalty Runs | |||||
| TOTAL SCORE (for wickets) | 148/10 | |||||
| BOWLING ANALYSIS | ||||||
| Fall of Wickets | Name of Bowler | OVERS | MAIDENS | RUNS | WICKETS | |
| 1 | Safaraz | 5 | 0 | 36 | 1 | |
| 2 | Fahad | 5 | 0 | 26 | 1 | |
| 3 | Nadeem | 5 | 0 | 35 | 2 | |
| 4 | Aamir | 4 | 0 | 26 | 2 | |
| 5 | Nouman | 4 | 0 | 26 | 2 | |
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| CRICKET ESPANA LEAGUE MATCH REPORT FORM | 2015 | |||||
| CATALUYNA TIGERS | VERSUS (away team) | MINHAJ | ||||
| Apr-15 | Venue | MONTJUIC | ||||
| Umpires | NASSER – YASIR | |||||
| MINHAJ | Scorer | MANIQIE ALI | ||||
| Name of Batsman | How out | Bowler | Total Score | |||
| (give initial first) | ||||||
| 1 Asjid | Run Out | Thair | 56 | |||
| 2 Dilshan | ct | Samar | 7 | |||
| 3 Safaraz | not out | 51 | ||||
| 4 Khalid | Bowled | Khalid | 6 | |||
| 5 Fahad | not out | 3 | ||||
| 6 Nouman | dnb | |||||
| 7 Waqas | dnb | |||||
| 8 Nadeem | dnb | |||||
| 9 Aamir | dnb | |||||
| 10 | dnb | |||||
| 11 | dnb | |||||
| Extras 26 | Penalty Runs | |||||
| TOTAL SCORE (for wickets) | 149/3 | |||||
| BOWLING ANALYSIS | ||||||
| Fall of Wickets | Name of Bowler | OVERS | MAIDENS | RUNS | WICKETS | |
| 1 | Javed | 5 | 0 | 31 | 0 | |
| 2 | Samar | 4 | 0 | 24 | 1 | |
| 3 | Shakeel | 3 | 0 | 25 | 0 | |
| 4 | Ghulam Sawar | 4 | 0 | 22 | 0 | |
| 5 | Khalid | 5 | 0 | 22 | 1 | |
| 6 | Asif | 3 | 0 | 25 | 0 | |
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