ISLAMABAD - Rawalpindi beat FATA by six wickets in the pool A match of the PCB-Pepsi Cricket Stars U-16 One Day Tournament 2011 here at Bhutto Cricket Ground on Wednesday.
Batting first, Fata were bowled out for 139 runs in 44.4 overs. Basit Ali (32) and Balman Khan (22) played well. Aaqib Shah (4-26) and Farhan (2-15) bowled well.
Rawalpindi achieved the target in 29.2 overs for the loss of 4 wickets. Mir Waiz (51), Awais Iqbal (37) and Waqas Ahmed (21) batted well. For Fata Bilal Ahmed (2-45) bowled well. Sultan Mehmood and Dr Abdul Wasay supervised the match. In another match Lahore defeated Peshawar 3 wickets.
Peshawar bowled out for 209 runs in 43 overs, Zawan (77), Shoaib Khan (32) were the notable scorers. M Ahmed (5/20) and  Gohar Hafeez (4/35) bowled well.
Lahore achieved the target in 44.1 overs for the loss of 7 wickets; Farhan Shafiq made half century and Ghulam Tasadduq 24 batted well. Salman Shah (2-29) bowled well. Bilal Qureshi and Saleem Butt were the field umpires.
In the last match of the day, Abbottabad won the match by 18 runs. Put into bat first, Abbottabad were bundled out for 120 runs in 24.3 overs. M Hafeez (45) and Faizan Ali (15) batted well. For Islamabad Naeem Shahzad (3-24) and Dilawar Shah (2-2) bowled well.
Chasing a modest target Islamabad were crashed out for 102 runs in 31.4 overs. Ali Imran (31) and Syed Faraz (19) played well. Faizan Ali 3-13, Sultan Mehmood 3-25 and Khalid Kail 2-19 were the successful bowlers. Abid Naqvi and Imtiaz Iqbal officiated the match. 
Brief scores: Sialkot U-16 beat Hyderabad U-16 by two wickets at LCCA ground:
Hyderabad U-16: 126 in 39.2 overs (Raheel Meo 37, Irfan Elahi 3-25, Ahsan Bhatti 4-19)
Sialkot U-16: 129-8 in 42.1 overs (M Zahid 27*, Irfan Elahi 20, Abdul Samad 3-19, Wali M 2-21, Sheran Malik 2-31)
Multan U-16 outpaced Karachi U-16 by 74 runs at Ittefaq cricket ground:
Multan U-16: 177-9 in 45 overs (Imran Rafiq 50, Saqib-ul-Hasan 23, Saood Shakeel 3-36, Saood Shakeel 3-36, Tabraiz Dyer 2-30)
Karachi U-16: 103 in 35.3 overs (Saood Shakeel 46, Junaid Zawar 4-6, Saqib-ul-Hasan 2-16, Ameer Hamza 2-22, Hasan Mushtaq 2-23). Faisalabad U-16 defeat Quetta U-16 by five wickets at Model Town Greens cricket ground:
Quetta U-16: 95 in 28.2 overs (Mir Saeed Ullah 34, Ahmed Safi Abdul 5-32, Sharaiz Khan 4-9).
Faisalabad U-16: 99-5 in overs (Sultan Afzal 40*, M Asim 16, Zain Ullah 2-14)