Pebble Breakers and Barry's won the opening matches of the Emporium Mall Punjab Polo Cup 2017 played here at the Lahore Polo Club ground on Tuesday. Both the teams played well and gave tough time to each other but in the end, Pebble Breakers emerged as triumphant as they beat their opponents by a narrow margin of 3-2.
The second encounter of the day proved to be a high-voltage match between Barry's and Army, which saw both the teams scoring altogether 14 goals with the winning side (Barry's) all alone hammering 10 goals while the remaining four came from the losing side (Army), which had also two and half goal handicap advantage. Army made their presence felt in the third chukker when they hit their first goal through Manuel Toccalino but Hamza then fired two brilliant goals to stretch Barry's lead to 9-1.
The fourth and last chukker began with Samiullah's fabulous field goal to make it 10-1. After that, Army staged a comeback and thrashed three goals - one each by Omer Minhas, Ahmed Butt and Brigadier Zulfiqar - but it was too little too late situation, as when the final whistle was blown, Barry's were leading the encounter by 10-4. With two and half goal advantage for Army, the final score was 10-61/2.
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