The Punjab Sports Festival 2012 has now entered into its third phase of district level activity as the last day of Tehsil level sports concluded successfully at all tehsils of Punjab.
The general public, Inter school and colleges competitions will now start from today (Thursday).
”The event is going on successfully and youth of the province are enthusiastically participating in this sports festival from grass root level,” said Director General Sports Punjab Usman Anwar.
He congratulated the winning players and praised their skills and efforts.”We believe in the transparency of the events in conducting Sports Festival,” he added.
In the next phase of district level, he said, four more games including taekwondo, wrestling, weightlifting, basketball, athletics, cricket, karate, badminton, hockey, volleyball, kabaddi and Football will be played among 36 districts of Punjab.
According to the details, the final matches were played on Wednesday at Cantt/Shalamar and Lahore city in which the final match of cricket general public was held.
Union Council 59 defeated Union Council 23 by 3 runs. Ahmed hit the highest score of 25 runs. In the final cricket match for general public, Union Council 60 beat UC 57 by two runs. Ashraf was declared the man of the match with 62 runs. At Iqbal Park Sports Complex, general public cricket final match was held in which Ali Shah XI from Union Council 90 was defeated by Jan Mohammed XI from Union Council 94 by 1 run.
