HK Cricket Match Reports: Monday, 29 September 2015

One-Day Premier League
One Premier League match was played at Mission Road on the Mid-Autumn Festival holiday with the HKCA Under-19s prevailing by four wickets over PACC in an unbelievable finish.

PACC started positively after winning the toss and Hussain Butt and Daniyal Bukhari shared an opening partnership of 50 before Waqas Khan bowled Butt for 17. Bukhari continued to prosper and he and Skhawat Ali put on another 84-runs for the 4th wicket before Bukhari departed for 85. Skhawat (58) and Aizaz Khan (34) then added another 69 runs before both batsmen fell with the score on 225. The PACC innings eventually closed on 6/245 from their 50 overs.

The HKCA Under-19s innings also got off to a good start with Niraj Patwari and Raag Kapur putting 39 runs on the board for the first wicket but both batsmen were back in the pavilion before the score had reached 50. Akbar Khan then scored 51 but his was the fourth wicket to fall as the HKCA U19s score reached 114. Waqas Khan (56), Giacomo Lamplough (20) and Mohammad Awais (43*) batted extremely well to keep the scoreboard ticking over but by the end of the 49th over, 21 runs were still needed for victory. Two sixes in the final over, bowled by Mohammad Kamran, left the U19s needing to score four off the last ball but they could only manage two and the PACC players started celebrating their win. However, the bowler had failed to inform umpire Clive Howard that he was changing to bowl around the wicket so the umpire called a no-ball, meaning the scores were now tied. With the final ball having to be re-bowled, and a free hit on offer, the batsmen scampered through for a quick run, despite the facing batsman being cleaned bowled, to give the HKCA U19s victory by four wickets.
At Mission Road: PACC 6/245 from 50 overs lost to HKCA Under-19s 6/246 from 50 overs by 4 wickets