Trail Blazers CC played against Karachi Hawks as part of their first match of a new 5 match series. The match was played at SKBZ cricket ground where Hawks batted first and lost 2 early wickets of Rameez Mehboob for 3 runs and Raza for 7 runs. Idrees Durrani with 30 and Wasiq with 35 runs provided stability but Aamir Noor dismissed both and after that only Faisal Ghouri managed 28 runs to make Hawks reach a competitive 151 for 7 at the end of 20 overs. For Trail Blazers, Adnan Ghazi got 2 wickets, Aamir Noor was key with his 3 wickets, Owais Balagamwala picked up a wicket and there was 1 run out.
In reply, Adnan Salim and Tayyab R Balagamwala had a 57 run partnership before Adnan was out for 32 runs off 21 balls while Tayyab continued scoring at the other end and got a match winning 68 runs off 48 deliveries. Haris Altaf and Owais Balagamwala with 11 each contributed and ensured their team crossed the line comfortably in the end with 3 overs to spare and for the loss of 5 wickets. For Hawks, Salam got 2 wickets while Faisal and Talha Butt took a wicket each,
Trail Blazers won by 5 wickets.
Man of the match: Tayyab Balagamwala
