Multan, Abbottabad to play blind cricket final

Multan and Abbottabad to clash in the cricket final part of the ongoing 26th edition of the Games for Persons with Disability being played by Directorate of Sports Khyber Pakhtunkhwa here at different venues Comsats University on Thursday.
Director Sports (Operation) KP Syed Saqlain Shah, Director Games Nimat Ullah Afridi, Director venues Hamid Khan and Secretary Organizing Committee Syed Jaffar Shah, office-bearers of the blind cricket association, officials, players and large number of spectators were also present on this occasion.
In the first semifinal match Abbottabad defeated Karachi by eight wickets in a dramatic match. Karachi setup a target of 179 runs. Tahir smashed 80 runs including three towering sixes and seven boundaries and received thundering applauses from the sitting spectators. Abbottabad chased the target for the loss of two wickets with Riasat made an elegant 113 runs. Riasat lace his century with five towering sixes and nine boundaries Adeel scored 35 runs.
In the second match Multan defeated Balochistan team by 1 runs. Multan batting setup 132 runs target with Inam struck a cracking knock of 55 runs. In reply, Balochistan took a good start but failed to chase the target and bundled out for 131 runs with one ball to spare.
In the Tug of War Kingston won the trophy after defeating Abbottabad Light and Rise got third position. In the Female Table Tennis defending champion Zainab Barkat of FOP Peshawar
In the Children CP groups Ghafoor of Bannu won gold medal, followed by Ijaz of DIK and Bilal of Lahore, in the Children Race 100m Nouman of Light House won gold medal, Danial of Sam School and Abdur Rehman Kingston, in the 100m Upper Portion race Ali Amir of Kingston, followed by Moin Khan of Special Education Balochistan, and Saad Ali of Kingston, in the 200m Children Race Hamza Shah of Kingston, Rizwan and Osama and Huzaifa of Kingston and Rise, in the Children Female 100m Maryum Shah won gold medal, followed by Farida of Rise and Muniza of Kingston.
In the women wheelchair race Zainab Abbottabad, Laila Amir Abbottabad, Husna Peshawar. In the female standing race Fazilat of Paraplegic Center Peshawar got gold medal, followed by Arooj Malik of FOP Abbottabad and Shama of Paraplegic Center Peshawar.