WAPDA and NBP have moved to the final of the All Pakistan NBP Gold Cup after beating their rivals in the semifinals on Wednesday at the Faisalabad Hockey Stadium. The final of the event will be played today at 02:00pm and Commissioner Faisalabad Saeed Tahir Hussain will be the chief guest of the prize distribution ceremony.
In the first semifinal, WAPDA beat PIA by 2-1 with all the action coming in the second half. The first half remained goalless and all the three goals came in the second session. WAPDA’s captain Rehan Butt converted both the goals while PIA brought the reducer through Mukhtar.
In the second semifinal, NBP routed Army by 5-2. Both the teams remained locked one-all at the full time and even the extra time also did not yield any goal. That led them to penalty shoot out and NBP was successful in completing the win. Qaiser Iqbal International and Olympian Danish Kaleem were the chief guests on the occasion, Organising Secretary Olympian Rana Mujahid Ali, Tournament Director Olympian Khalid Bashir, DHA Faisalabad President Haji Rana Muhammad Mazhar Khan, Olympian Malik Shafqat, Olympian Anjum Saeed, International Shahid Hussain, International Shahzad Chishti, Mr Ghulam Muhammad Khan Advisor to Sports National Bank and officials of DHA were present.
