Sadiq claims four as Haiderys win

AFTER losing their opening match in the Luton & District Midweek Cricket League Premier Division, Luton Haiderys registered their second consecutive win, thumping Kashmir Cavaliers by 52 runs.

Batting first, Haiderys openers Hasan Parvez (27) and Jibran Azam (24) gave them a solid start before Zawar Hussain hit a blistering 66 to take his team to 158.

Cavaliers started off carefully through Sohail Wajid (19) and Owais Raja (27), but wickets began to tumble with Rizwan Sadiq taking 4-4 to dismiss their opponents for 106.

It was a low scoring game between Lions CC and Luton CC.

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Lions CC struggled with only Tauqir Shah hitting a fluent 40, and Ishaq Shah making 17, as they scored 100-7 after a great bowling effort by Nasir, who finished with 4-24.

Luton CC lost crucial early wickets and, although Saeed hit 35, they were skittled for 85 with Nazakat Khan recording outstanding figures of 6-15.

Luton Cricketers are bottom after their third defeat in a row against AKCC.

Cricketers did well to post 135-3 from 16 overs with Nauman Tahir blasting 57.

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Unbeaten AKCC reached their target with a good partnership between Jitu (41 not out) and Ghulam (31 not out) to top the table.

Luton Pakistanis went joint top by beating Luton Hawks as, after totalling 130-9, they restricted Hawks to 100-8.

Kingsway CC remain top of Division One after defeating second-placed Luton Saracens.

Kingsway made 111-6 as captain Atif Ali hit 24 after Saghir (4-28) ripped through the top order.

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Luton Saracens lost early wickets to Yasir Munir (2-14), as only Yasir Choudary (17) put up any fight, while Umar Afzal also took 2-23 to restrict Saracens to 81-6.

For the third week, Haidery Tigers were involved in a nail-biting finish, this time against Challney CC, who posted 112-6. In reply, Liaqat scored 31 to follow up his figures of 2-16 and take his team over the winning line.

The Saracens earned their first win by beating AKXI. Taberaz Khan was the main man as he hit 39 to lead his team to 126-8, while AKXI limped to 103-7.

Shaheen CC beat LU Stars in a thrilling game which went down to the last ball.

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Stars made 121 as Ummar scored 40, while Mohammed Saeed (3-27) and Saqib Iqbal (2-17) were in fine form.

In reply, Adeel Raja made 28, but they still needed 10 runs from the last over and two off the last ball, which was smashed for four to give them victory.