Seven Star Cricket Club emerges champion of JF-FedEX Super Cup Cricket

Riyadh, March 8: The Seven Star Cricket Club emerged as the champion of JF-FedEX Super Cup Cricket organized by the local unit of Jam’iyyatul Falah under the sponsorship of FedEX/SMSA in Riyadh recently.

Eastern Arabia and Wenz Exhibition were other sponsors supported the event. As many as 16 teams participated in the tournament.

Mohammed Burhan Khan, Director Finance, FedEx and Abdul Basheer Jokatte, Finance Controller, NCMS were chief guests at the prize distribution ceremony.

In the final match, Eagle C C won the toss and preferred to bat. But the slow start and regular fall of wickets restricted the Eagle C C to 107 in allotted 12 overs. Ashfaq (49) was the only main scorer from the Eagle side. Shabeer of Seven Star Cricket Club took three wickets while Hyder and Sanjeeva shared two wickets.

In reply Seven Star lost their best batsmen Riyaz in the first over. However, a good partnership between Shafi and Shabeer (37 runs) and Shabeer and Naveed (28) consolidated the run chase of Seven Star. It was left to Arshad and Hyder to score the winning runs without losing any the wicket.

Shafi (14), Shabeer (23), Naveed (24), Arshad (17*), Hyder (15*) were the main scorer from the winning team. Seven Star won the Final in the 10th over. Shabbeer was declared the Man of the Match for his all-round performance.