Stallions crush Afridi to win Night Cricket title

Night Cricket Tournament

Pak Stallions 172/7 Afridi XI 131 (Stallions win by 41 runs)

Player of Series: Roger Mukasa

Best Batsman: Nandi Kishor

Best Bowler: Suleman Sharif

Having agonisingly lost last year's final to Aziz Damani, Pak Stallions made amends routing Afridi Xi in a 41 run win on Sunday night at Lugogo Cricket Oval.

Player of series, Roger Mukasa set the tone for his side hitting 57 runs from 45 balls before he was caught. Ali Malik weighed in with 38 runs off 20 balls as Stallions set 172 in 20 overs.

In the second innings of the meet, Afridi could not stand up to Stallion's bowling as they were dismissed for 131 despite Amir Cheema's resilient 45 runs.

"We wanted to get them out earlier enough after winning the toss but the plan failed and they really set a big target and our plan started running down" Afridi's Nasser Ahmed Nasser who made 3/40 in 5 overs.

"We couldn't stand the thought of losing another final. We wanted to undo the pain we got after losing in the last edition. I'm happy we achieved our objective" said Stallions' coach Ashfaq Mohammed whose side walked away with a trophy and sh10m

Chief guest John Nagenda who was also presented with a lifetime achievement award excited the crowd with his humour.

"This is really a big innovation in Ugandan cricket. It wasn't really like this when I started out playing in the 50s. I'm overwhelmed" he said.

Man of the Series Pak Stallions' Roger Mukasa receives his prize from Kalpesh Patel. Photo by Michael Nsubuga

John Nagenda admires his Lifetime Achievement Award presented to him by Jaishree Patel, daughter of the late Ramcenlal Patel flanked by Sanjiv Patel. Photo by Michael Nsubuga