The Subway and Newage has earned victories in the Solitaire Polo Cup 2016 matches played at the Lahore Polo Club ground on Thursday. Coupled with pleasant weather, polo enthusiast thronged to the Lahore Polo Club to witness the enthralling encounters. Not only the weather but also enthusiasm by players, ponies and closely-contested second match doubled their delight and made their day.
The Subway started the most entertaining second match, having two goals handicap advantage and also dominated the first chukker in great style as they thwarted tremendous two back-to-back goals to take an impressive 4-0 lead. But the Guard Group bounced back in style in the second chukker hammering two back-to-back goals through high-flying Taimur Ali Malik to reduce the lead to 4-2. Taimur continued his sublime form in the third chukker as well as produced a brilliant brace to level the score at 4-4. Sheharyar Bukhari then pumped in a field goal to give Guard Group 5-4 lead which couldn't remain intact for long and the score was levelled at 5-5 when Mir Huzaifa struck a goal off 30-yard to complete his hat-trick.
In the fourth and decisive chukker, both the teams played attacking polo and kept on attacking each other goal but both couldn't produce a single goal and the chukker ended goalless. In the sudden death chukker, Mir Huzaifa once again proved his mettle and smashed a match-winning goal to steer Subway to a thrilling 6-5 triumph. Azam Haya Noon and Taimur Hayat Noon officiated the match as field umpires.
The first match saw the Newage playing superb polo by thrashing struggling Rijas by 10-4. Chaudhry Fateh Mehmood was the hero of the day for the winning side as he hammered five goals while he was assisted by Adnan Jalil Azam and Hassan Abbas who struck three and two goals. For the losing side, Usman Malik thwarted all the four goals.
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