Majeed, captain of Eastern Blue won the toss and put Al Falah’ for bat. Nisar and Tasleem opened the innings for Al Falah. They played steadily and put on 29 runs for the first wicket. It was Fayaz, who took the vital wicket of Nisar and Thousheed, in two consecutive deliveries. In the next over Nazman also took the important wicket of Nainar. Al Falah lost 3 wickets in quick intervals. Then Tasleem and Sayyed played responsible and kept moving the score board. At one stage Al Falah were 60/6 in 10th over. At this crucial level good all-rounder of the ball – Rameez, took the challenge and played magnificently by hitting Eastern Blues bowlers. He hit 5 huge sixes. He scored valuable 47 runs before losing wicket. At the end Al Falah were all out for 119/10 in 13th over.
For Al Falah’: Rameez – 47, Tasleem – 19, Sayyed - 11,
For Eastern Blue: All the bowlers bowled well as Nazman took 3/19, Tairaz took 3/29, Fayaz 2/23 and Asif 2/28.
On the chase, Fayaz and Tairaz opened the innings for Eastern Blues. They lost the important wicket of Tairaz when the score was 8. Then, the captain and good striker of the ball Majeed joined Fayaz. Immediately they lost the vital wicket of Fayaz when the score was 17. At this difficult stage - Ashfaq joined Majeed and both played responsibly by rotating the strikes. These two batsmen put on valuable partnership of 71 runs for the 3rd wicket. Captain Majeed played brilliant innings and took his team for grand victory. At the end Easten Blues were 121/8 on 14th over.
For Eastern Blues - Majeed – 48, Ashfaq – 20, and Fayaz – 15.
For Al Falah’ – Thanseer took 3/22, and Nizam took 2/17.
Captain of Eastern Blue – Majeed adjudged as the “Man of the match finals” for his superb batting performances.
Semi finals
Prior to this finals first semi final was played between United Lanka and Al Falah’. Bating first Al Falah’ scored 95/10. Chasing a lowest target United Lanka were all-out for 74. Al Falah’ defeated United Lanka by 21 runs.
Second semi final was played between Crescent and Eastern Blues. Batting first Crescent made 106/10 and Eastern Blues chased the target in 11th over losing four wickets.
Prize distribution on June 6
After the finals, League Tournament sponsors Mr. Zia Malik, from Al Anwaar Group, Mr. Nazeer Hussain from Al Salah, lauded the efforts of DCA Committee in organizing such a grand tournaments which lasted for four months with 40 teams participating and they promised their support for DCA in future too.
DCA President Ashok Patel thanked the sponsors for their support and also thanks to all the teams for their participation and made this tournament grand success.
DCA Annual Prize Distribution ceremony is expected to be held on Friday 6th June 2014, at Crystal Hall Dammam. All the winners/runners and merited players are invited.
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