Preview

Sunrise Cricket Club went against AVT Enterprise on 26th September in the final of All Stars T20 Championship.

Muhammad Ali and Bilal Ahmed opened the innings for Sunrise. Where Ali scored 20 runs, Bilal scored 36 runs. Imran Sajjad, the one-down batter, lost his wicket on a duck. However, it was Daniyal Liaquat who secured momentum for the team. Liaquat smashed a massive century at a strike rate of 201.79.  His innings included 16 boundaries and he remained not out, smashing 113 runs off 56 balls only. Though Shiekh Ubaid Ur Rehman bagged 2 wickets; however, the bowling power remained ineffective. Hence, Sunrise posted a mammoth total of 215 runs.

Talha Shehzad and Saad Samad opened the innings, scoring 13 and 24 runs respectively. The batters continued to loose wickets. Tauqeer Malik bagged 3 wickets, while Shahid dismissed 2 batters. Amir Batla was the highest scorer of the innings, however, was lbw-ed by Shahid.

Hence, the pressure kept building on the batters of AVT Enterprise, as they were unable to chase the score. Sunrise dismissed all their batters in the 18th over and won the match by a massive margin of 112 runs, claiming the title of Champions.