Mahmood and Saud shine in a practice game

Riyadh(P.C.M): Challlengers played a practice game for their upcoming fixture against Rawdah Heats on thursday. Captain Sheroze Ali won the toss and elected to bowl first. Usman bowled the first over which went for 17 runs. Sheroze Ali bowled the next over and went for the 12 runs but got a wicket of Mohammed Asfar on the last ball. Score board read 29-1 Mustafa was next to go. It was then Moiez and Saud guided the score line to 60. Moiez then played a losed stroke and sheroze ali took a relatively easy game. Moiez XI made a total of 66-3.
As expected Moiez bowled the first over. On the 5th delievery he got a very fair chance of striking for his team but failed to execute to catch. Mustafa bowled the next over and got a wicket on the very third delievery when saud took a great catch under pressure. Saud bowled the next and took another catch. Mustafa struck next. Hassan Sabir was the next bowler. On the fourth delievery the big fish Usman Shahid played an upish drive and Saad Mahmood took an amazing catch running an estimate of 7-8 yards. The score line read 54-4. 13 runs to get from the last over. Saad Mahmood was given the last over who bowled an splendid over under pressure giving only 3 runs and also got a wicket.
Match Result- Moiez XI win by 9 runs.

Pak Challengers Vs Knight Riders

As the winter season starts, the action in Riyadh gets hot as two huge names collide in a three match series starting from 17 of October. Pak Challengers and Knight Riders have head to head in 6 matches with Pak Challengers winning 3 and Knight Riders winning 4 of them.

First Ever Series Abandoned For Challengers

When we woke up on the morning of 16th July 2012 we never thought we would be witnessing such a dreadful day. As scheduled Pak Challengers were to face a local team. Match started at 5:00 pm local time. Toss was won by Sheroze Ali and elected to bat first. Suleman and Fahad Dawood were debuting for Challengers. Challengers dominated the game from the very first ball. Openers Suleman and Moheed opened very well for the team. The local team struck first when they got Moheed. Awais Ahmed was next. No one could think what was to happen next. Awais and Suleman pushed the score to 130 in just 6 overs. Awais then declared his innings retired hurt. Sheroze Ali then pushed the score 180 along with Suleman who hit the pavillion's bench at 97*. Challengers made 180 in 12 overs.
      Start for the local team was one of the most dreaded starts. Maaz Siddique who opened the innings for the challengers struck in the very first over. And later created a chance which was not executed very well by Saad Mahmood who was behind the wickets. Then things got heated up between the teams sooner. Things got more worse when both the former captains collided. Saad Mahmood(Challengers) and Adeel(Local Team) both had a go at each other.  Sheroze and Awais then got sucessive wickets in two overs. Later Saad Mahmood produced a brilliant over giving only 2 runs and taking 2 wickets. Waleed ,bowling for the challengers for the first time ever got the big fish taking Usman's wicket. Suleman bowled the 11th over as this was supposed to be the last over due to bad light. And Pak Challengers won by 76 runs. But wait a second, the real action was about to start. As Anwar(Local Team) surprisingly attacked the Challengers opener Suleman. As a result Suleman got bruised. Challengers were raged. They wanted revenge and they couldnt stop for long. As a result Ethisham(Local Team Captain) said that his team wont be walking in the ground for the rest of the series. As a result Pak Challengers have officially registered their first series win. Pak Challengers Committee have confirmed this series win. Saad Mahmood's twitter words were quite raging.
Sheroze Ali also had a verbal go at the team "I cant tolerate some one going at my mate.Specially that is someone who has been such help to us in such difficult time." Where does this lead us to? No one has a answer to it. Will this rivalry go any further? Well time is the best teacher.....

 

First Win of the Season for Challengers

After a really hard month, challengers have finally opened their account by winning comprehensively  against a local side in Hara, Riyadh. Challengers under the captainship of Sheroze Ali were 3 players less as they came on the field. Sheroze won the toss and elected to bat first. First over went for 20 runs. Things went even better when Awais Ahmed and Maaz Siddique brought up a brilliant cameo partnership. Challengers posted a huge total of 150 in 12 overs.
       Well the start for the Opponent team was very well. Maaz's over went for 10. But then a series of wickets and BAAM that was it! Sheroze Ali took 3 wickets, Awais 2 wickets and the leggie Saad Backed one for the challengers.

After the match Sheroze was asked about the victory and he said that "this is a start to what we have been looking forward to. Performances from individuals like Maaz ,Awais and Saad have justed improved with time and thats what we need." When asked about Moiez Haider's absence he said "Well he was out of form. He is a fine player with fine skills but we have left all on him, if he wants to continue with the team then he can go on and if doesnt wants then we dont have problem with it aswell"

Match Result: Pak Challengers win by 92 runs and lead the series 1-0.

Fielding sinks Switch XI

Switch XI seems to be out of luck this week. As they get defeated by Unknown XI by 9 wickets. Unknown XI won the toss and elected to bowl first. Unknown XI struck on the very first ball as wicket keeper batsman Etrut nicked the delivery and keeper Hisham shaikh very well executed the catch. It couldn't get any worse when Switch XI were 33 for 4. Then Mugheer Aftab and Hussain Naeem batted very well and made the score reach to 133. Hussian Naeem was runout then. And then the miracle happened. Awais Ahmed struck 48 from the second last over with a flurry of extras. With 30 runs of the last over. Switch XI ended their innings on 209-6. Mugheer Aftab made an unbeaten 84*.
         The start was very well for Unknown XI. Saad Mahmood missed a catch on the gully and later a boundary on long on. Hisham Shaikh was unstoppable today and along with a new partner Hassan he was looking even better. Zaheer then slipped of a catch and poor fielding continued when Awais Ahmed dropped one more down at the gully. Things were out of hand until Mugheer Aftab struck at third last over and Hisham's disastrous innings came to an end. But then Hassan took the torch and fought till the end to secure a relatively easy win.

Recent Form
Unknown XI- L,W,W
Switch XI- L,L,L

Pak Challengers Or Switch XI?

Big Changes are brought in effect as the OAK cricket tournament is around the corner. Pak Challengers central committee has decided to go with the name "Switch XI' for the upcoming tournament. Though none of the players have stated any specific reason for the change. At the same time, P.C.C.C have come up with a new captain, after Saad Mahmood resigned from his captainship due to the growing opposition. Sheroze Ali is the new elected captain while Saad Mahmood takes up the position of the Vice Captain. Mustafa Ali, Saad Omer & Raied Mir were stripped from the squad. Mohammed Asfar, Arsalan Saad, Mugheer and Etrut Ali are the new inclusions. Awais Ahmed takes up the post of Head Practice dept. while Sohaib Zaman is the new manager. Switch XI are officially registered for the OAK cricket tournament starting from June 24th 2012. Switch XI will play their first match on Thursday, June 28 2012 against Unknown XI.

Full Squad Announced

The Challengers central Committee has announced the 15 member squad for the upcoming tournament. Though P.C.C.C has made a change by making Awais Ahmed,the new vice captain. The 15 member squad is as follows:

1. Saad Mahmood (Captain)
2. Awais Ahmed (Vice Captian)
3. Moiez Haider
4. Raied Mir
5. Mustafa Ali
6. AbuBakr Asif
7. Bilal Jahingir
8. Maaz Siddique
9. Hassan Sabir
10. Hussain Naeem
11. Saad Omer
12. Shoaib Ejaz
13. Abdullah Khan
14. Shehroze Ali
15. Abdullah Waqar

Though P.C.C.C has reported that Mustafa Ali has refused to be the keeper and will be playing as a regular player.