Amit and bilal opened the innings and gave a good start before bilal fell to haroon trying to loft him over gully. Qaiser walked in and along with amit put up a good partnership . Amit little cameo finished when sham cleaned him up . and after that Hpcc wickets kept falling and in no time they were 118/5 in 24 overs.

That is when Manzoor got in the crease and tried to pick up the pace of the innings along with Akbar , they put up 30 odds runs in next three overs . Akbar then lost his cool and tried to clear the boundary with a lofted shot only to be held at deep mid on.

Shami didnt stay for too long either and was brilliantly caught by haroon on his own bowling. Hafeez then joined manzoor and they again had to build a partnership as well as get quick runs.Manzoor then started to hit everything and was caught at deep midwicket by junaid.

Rest of the players didnt bother the scorer much . Hpcc were all out for 206 with 8 balls to go.

Knowning the batting line up of PACC and their past record of this year 207 was not a huge target to chase. HPCC knew that very well but one thing that was in their favour was that they knew the weaknesses and strentgh of PACC batsmen.

PACC opened the innings with their regular openers Waseem and Mansoor who have been very successful for them throughout the season.

HPCC started with Manzoor and Ghias. HPCC really didn't give anything away in first 4 over bowling in the right areas to both the openers. Mansoor then started to open his arms but was got caught by Amit on bowling of Manzoor.Panoosh joined waseem only to have a big mix up and get waseem run out. Haroon joined panoosh and both played cautiously until the first break.At break PACC were 37/2 . HPCC knew that they have dominated the first session of 2nd innings but also were aware that there was alot of game was left and that PACC were very well capable of pulling it through from there.

After the break Akbar struck in the first over to get rid of Panoosh , safely held by Faisal.

( who later went on to drop 3 easy sitters to make life tough for his own team)

That brouight Murtaza onto crease with Haroon and immidiately he took on Akbar hitting 3 fours in his 5th over, Also he ran fast between the wickets .

HPCC captain then brought the vetern BHAIYA who trapped murti in his first over , and Atiq on the next ball . Nasir then joined Haroon and both started to play thier strokes but Akbar got rid of Haroon in his last over , caught brilliantly by Mark behind the stumps. Sham and Bilal didnt give much support to Nasir either , But that didnt make no difference to Nasir's approach.He continue to clear the boundary on will .

Althought PACC were 8 down and required 15 runs an over, HPCC still didn't take it easy knowning Nasir's ability to take the game away from them single handedly which he Almost did.Mushtaq played a good hand and also hit couple of sixes to give HPCC more worries.

Last over PACC needed 26 runs to win and nasir on strike. Any other game , Fielding side would be celebrating but HPCC were focus to not let it happen.Nasir hit the first ball for 6, 2nd ball Mushtaq was run out as he sacrificed his wicket to get Nasir back on strike, But it was all over for them then as he couldnt manage to hit any more ball over the rope .

HPCC won by a narrow margin of 14 runs which could have been much better for them had it not been for atleast 6 easy catches they dropped and also the brialliance of Nasir.

Team HPCC playoffs is upon us now.Lets make sure we do not repeat the mistakes we made during the regular season.Remember'' CATCHES WIN MATCHES ''.

We Thank him for volunteering to umpire in such tense game.

Thank you Asim!