The Inter divisional phase of the Punjab Sports Festival has now entered into its final phase with Lahore remaining in the limelight on Monday. Lahore thrashed Faisalabad 2-1 to win the final of college female hockey. In the university female final hockey, Punjab University Lahore beat 3-0. In the university boys hockey final, Central University of Punjab defeated Government College Faisalabad 3-2.
Naveed Alam was the chief guest on this occasion who applauded the winning team and distributed trophies among team.
In the football male final, Punjab University Lahore defeated Sargodha University 1-0. In kabaddi final, Lahore beat Sargodha 62-34. in the departmental cricket match final, Punjab Police beat Sports Board Punjab. Punjab Police scored 137 while Sports Board Punjab was all out at 31 runs only.
Meanwhile, the floodlight veterans final cricket match was held between Rest of Lahore XI and Chief Minister’s XI at Gadafi Stadium. Director General Sports Usman Anwar checked the arrangements before the start of the match and also ensured the security situation. Javed Zaman was the chief coordinator of this match. The captain of Chief Minister XI was Abdul Qadir while Salim Malik was the captain of Rest of Lahore XI.
All the ex-cricketers showed their best performance in this friendly match whereas Rana Mashood Ahmed Deputy Speaker Punjab Assembly and Chairman Organizing Committee was the chief guest on this occasion.
The Chief Minister’s XI comprised Aamer Ilyas Butt, M.Riaz, wicketkeeper, Dastagir Butt, Amir Akbar, Shan, Mansoor Hamid, Tariq Rasheed, Munir Shah, Rauf Wayen, Romail Bashir, Shakir Malik, Ghaffar Kazmi, Khalid Habib and Nasrullah Khan.
The participants for Rest of Lahore XI were: Kamran Khan, Shahid Anwar, Zahoor Elahi, Arshad Khan, Amin Khan, Imran Shah, Alauddin Butt, Nisar Zaman wicket keeper, Rehan Rauf, Rizwan Nisar, Imran Bucha, Khwaja Nadeem , Ch.Shafqat and Shehbaz Khan.