Sayid Paper Mills Stags and Lahore Muhammadan strolled into semi-finals of Ist SPM Lahore Veteran Cricket Championship. In the first quarterfinal, Aizad Sayid-led Stags beat Siddiq Motors with thrilling two-run at Model Town Whites Ground. Stags made 234 with Javed Hayat 62, Sajjad Akbar 55, Shahid Nazeer 19, Shahid Anwar 16, Kamran 13, Asad iqbal 12.
Hafiz Shahid 2-53, Muhammad Jehangir 5-34, Muhammad Khan 1-45, Rasheed 1-36 were wicket takers. In reply, Siddiq Motors ended up with 232. Hafiz Shahid 70, Tariq Mehmood 49, Shahid Ali 38, Abid Masood 21 were main run getters. The man of the match Sajjad Akbar snared 3-31 while one wicket each gained by Javed Hayat, Zia uddin, Shahid Anwar, Asif Mehmood. In the IInd quarter-final at Race Course Ground Lahore Muhammadan thrashing U Slim Cricket Club by 91 runs as losers managed only 165 in answer to Muhammadan's 256.