League matches concludes in 3rd Prof. Mukhtar Ahmad Butt Memorial Cricket Tournament

The Professor Mukhtar Ahmad Butt Memorial Cricket Tournament is being organized under the umbrella of Premier Super League Cooperate Club. This tournament is being considered as the revival of it as "The Mukhtar Butt Cricket Tournament" used to be held regularly in the late 1990s, but now it is being revived in 2019.

This mega cricket action is featuring about a total of eight (8) teams including Descon, Netsol, ICI, Ackzonobel, 3D Modelling, PTV Lahore, Steward and United BP Solutions. 

Chief Organizer of the tournament, Faheem Mukhtar Butt said, “Prof Mukhtar Butt was a renowned Professor of Government College Lahore, who was also Chief Proctor of the College, Chairman of Sports Board and Head of Zoology Department. As president of GCU Club, he groomed and produced many cricketers of distinction like Ramiz Raja, Saleem Malik, Manzoor Elahi, Waseem Haider, Shahid Saeed, Mian Mubeen, Khawaja Nadeem, Tahir Naqash, Ghafar Kazmi, Mujahid Jamsheed, Tahir Shah, Sajad Akbar, Khalid Niazi, Waheed Niazi, Bilal Ahmad and others."

Descon, Netsol, 3D Modeling and Stewart won their league matches against PTV, ICI, Akzonobel and UBS. According to details, first match played at Model Town Cricket Club Nawab, Descon beat PTV by 149 runs. Descon scored 238 runs in the first Innings. Muhammad Mubashir and Syed Mujahid Ali played a brilliant game and scored centuries. Muhammad Mubashir scored 114 runs and Syed Mujahid Ali played unbeaten innings of 101 runs.

Muhammad Husnain got one wicket. While chasing a target PTV scored 89 runs on all wickets. Adnan Malik scored 24 runs and Faheem Butt bowled amazing got four wickets. Muhammad Mubashir from Descon awarded the man of the Match on beautiful innings . In the second match, 3D modeling beat Akzonobel by 33 runs. In the first innings 3D modeling given target of 172 runs.

Mudassir Rathore scored 68 runs and Zirgham Ali got three wickets. While chasing a a given target Akzonobel scored 138 runs on loss of all wickets. Salman Dar played brilliant knock of 64 runs and Javed Muhammad got two wickets. Mudassir Rathore from 3D modeling awarded man of the Match on excellent performance. 

In the first match played at Race Course Cricket Ground, Netsol beat ICI Pakistan by 59 runs. In the first innings Netsol scored 171 runs on loss of eight wickets. Khurram Bilal played brilliant innings of 44 and Hammad Ahmad got three wickets. While chasing a given target ICI scored 112 on loss of all wickets. Muhammad Yousaf scored 24 runs and Faraz Hassan got three wickets. Faraz Hassan on his excellent performance awarded player of the match. In the second match, Stewart beat UBS by five wickets. UBS set a target of 113 runs on the board. Umar Daraz played a brilliant innings of 43 runs and Ali Nadeem took three major wickets. Stewart chased a given target on loss of five wickets and got first success of the tournament. Atif Saeed Khan played unbeaten match wining innings of 31 runs and Amir Mehmood got two wickets. Atif Saeed Khan awarded man of the Match.

Official referees of Pakistan Cricket Broad (PCB) along with professional Umpires have been conducting these matches and the other competitions of the tournament will be played in the playgrounds of Lahore next week.