Hira Valves clinched the season opener the Inaugural Cup crushing Adisseo in the main final here at the Lahore Polo Club’s Aikab Ground on a sunny Sunday. Hira Valves, led by riders Umair Magoon, Hamza Mawaz Khan, Samee Ibrahim and Jawad Jamil Malik hit 10 goals and allowed Adisseo three goals. Brig. Humayun Malik, who was the chief guest, gave away the winner’s trophy to the Hira Valves team. Umair Magoon and Hamza Mawaz Khan shared seven goals between them with the latter scoring four goals. Jawad had two and Samee got one to his credit. From Adisseo, all the three goals came from Sameer Habib Oberoi and all of them were 60 yard penalty hits.
In the subsidiary final, all the four riders of Free Lancers added one goal apiece with no goals coming in the second quarter. Hataff scored their only goal through Hassan Ali Farrukh in the third chukker. Ahsan Khan scored the first goal followed by Ghulam Mustafa Monnoo, Adam Khan and Hussain Iftikhar. The matches were supervised by Omar Asjad Malhi, Shah Shamyl Alam and Ali Malik.
