Media Release
Doha, Mar 11: In the first Hanan cricket tournament the sponsors Hanan XII got off to a flying start defeating Jaidah Motors in the inaugural match by a huge margin of 226 runs. The tournament is being played at West Bay Cricket Complex.
Abdul Rehman Vanoo the owner of Hanan could not make it for the inauguration due to pressing commitments in India. However he had arranged budding under 19 Indian Squash Player Pranay Jain and his father Sanjay Jain to inaugurate the tournament. Both along with Captain Kader and special guest, ex-dohaite and a cricket addict Ajaz Ali Khan from Chicago symbolically played a few balls for the inauguration.
The tournament has attracted 23 teams in Division-I and 16 teams in Division-II.
The finals are expected to be played on May 23.
After winning the toss Jaidah Motors opted to bowl first. With the strong batting line up, Hanan XII put up a massive total of 312 for 3 in the stipulated 20 overs. Parvez scored his first century in the Qatar Veterans Cricket tournament. His 137 runs came in just 33 balls including 20 X 6’s and one boundary. Sandeep 33 runs, Sajjad 31 runs and Shakeel 24 runs were the other batting contributors.
For Jaidah Motors Minoom took 2 wickets.
In reply, Jaidah Motors were bundled out for 86 runs in 19 overs.
Aswar took 4 wickets and Arif took 2 wickets.
Parvez / HANAN XII - Man of the Match.
Brief Scores of other Matches:
Asian Cricket Club defeated Doha Motors by 49 runs.
Asian Cricket Club 192 runs for 7 wickets in 20 overs ( Salim 64 runs , Tanvir 39 runs, Vijay 3 wickets for 28 runs, Bijoy 2 wickets for 12 runs )
Doha Motors 143 runs for 9 wickets in 20 overs ( Akram 23 runs, Vijay 25 runs. Adnan 3 wickets for 14 runs, Rizwan 2 wickets for 19 runs) Man of the match – Salim of ACC
Mitra Mandal beat Al Fardan by 2 wickets.
Al Fardan 120 runs all out in 19.5 overs ( Ikram 22 runs, Shahbaz 20 runs . Ravi 3 wickets for 20 runs )
Mitra Mandal 122 runs for 9 wickets in 19.2 overs (Bhushan T 36 runs, Yeshwanth 21 runs, Abhijit 19 runs. Faizan 2 wickets for 16 runs, Shehbaz 2 wickets for 11 runs.
Man of the match – Abhijit of Mitra Mandal.