Lions victory to serve LCCA’s game development cause

Lahore City Cricket Association President Khawaja Nadim Ahmad has said that Lahore Lions title victory in the National T-20 cricket tournament will support the efforts of LCCA for the further development of the game at grass root level. “This success will infuse a renewed interest among the youth to take up cricket as a sport besides supplementing our ongoing efforts for the revival of the game at early level,” he said here on Monday.
Nadim said it was a positive sign for Lahore cricket that its teams won the National T-20 title after two years and the success has given a new identity to Lahore cricket. It may be mentioned here that Lahore team also won the National T-20 title two years ago when Nadim took over as the President, ending a 23-year long regime of previous President Aamir Hayat Rokhari.
“In previous three years we did our best to revive the game by taking a number of drastic measures and now that stage is coming to concentrate more on speeding up our efforts for the further development of the game,” he asserted. LCCA Chief attributed Lions victory to collective team efforts and able leadership of national T-20 captain Muhammad Hafeez who led from the front from the beginning to end. “ If you look at the overall the performance of Lions teams it reveals a par excellence show on part of the players who underlined their talent and potential to inspire their side to unbeaten run in the event,” he added. He praised the leadership qualities of Hafeez.
LCCA Chief said Pakistan Cricket Board organized the T20 in a trend setting manner with the cooperation of Punjab Government and both the institutions did their best for the successful holding of the premier event. “Top of the line organizational skills were utilized by PCB and high security measures were taken by the Punjab Government to ensure the smooth conduct of the tournament,” he added.
He said a capacity crowd watched the final with keen interest and exhibited exemplary discipline which shows people’s deep passion in the game of cricket,” he said.