BN Polo Team and Newage won their respective matches of the Battle Axe Polo Cup 2020 to qualify for the subsidiary final here at the LP&CC ground on Thursday.

In the first match of the day, BN Polo Team edged out Platinum Homes by 7-6.5. From the winning side, Eulogio Celestino cracked a quartet while Ahmed Zubair Butt converted two and Saqib Khan Khakwani one goal. From the losing side, which had a half goal handicap advantage, Amirreza Behboudi hammered a hat-trick while Ghulam Mustafa Monnoo banged in a brace and Muhammad Junaid hit one goal. With this victory, BN Polo Team qualified for the subsidiary final.

Two-chukker matches were played among the three losing sides of Pool B where after tough battle, Newage managed to make way to the subsidiary final. In the first two-chukker match, Artema Medical/Black Horse Paints defeated Zacky Farms by a narrow margin of 4-3.5. From Artema Medical, all the four goals were scored by Hamza Mawaz Khan while from Zacky Farms, which had a half goal handicap, Hashim Kamal Agha struck two and Hamza Khan one goal.

The match between Newage and Zacky Farms ended in a 3-3 draw.

In the third and last match of Pool B, Newage beat Artema Medical/Black Horse Paints by 3-1.5. From Newage, Raja Taimur Nadeem converted two goals and Adnan Jalil Azam hit one. With the victory in the third match, Newage qualified for the subsidiary final.