Is, Mehmood star in Basta’s big victory

Mohammed Haris’ four-wicket spell and Shahid Mehmood's 72 guided Basta CT to a five-wicket victory over OCT Ruwi in an Oman Cricket B Division match at Amerat recently.

Invited to bat first, OCT Ruwi posted 185 for eight in 30 overs, thanks to contributions from Muzaffar Hassan (57) and Waseem Ismail (44). Haris picked four for 33 while Nazish Mohammed took two for 37.

In reply, Basta was 89 for four in the 12th over before Mehmood and Shamsudheen Shareef (30) added 77 runs for the fifth wicket to lead the team to win in the 27th over.

Brief scores: OCT Ruwi 195-8 in 30 overs (Hasan 57, Ismail 44; Haris 4-33, Nazish Mohammed 2-37) lost to Basta CT 196-5 in 26.1 overs (Mehmood 72, Shareef 30; Zubair Akbar 2-25). Other results: C Division (T20): NBO 176-8 (Mustansar Hussain 84, Syed Arfan 29; Zahirul Miah 3-25, Tanveer Rana 2-44) beat Orient Travels 115-8 (Chandra Mouli 21; Moazzam Shah 2-35, Maanas Kapoor 2-23).

C Division: OCT Al Hail-A 162-9 (Waleed Rahim 47, Nadhir Ghulam 20; Nandkumar Jadhav 4-19, Prasanth Ganapathy 2-37, Tawsif Tambe 2-30) beat Mott

Macdonald 118 all out in 17.2 overs (Javed Tanasha 28, Yash Toprani 22; Mohammed Sadiq 3-24, Nadhir Ghulam 2-24, Hisam Shafi 2-23, Suhaib al Balushi 2-27).

D Division (T20): Aptus Waves 145-8 (Simon Mohammed 58, Vijesh Vijayakumaran 26; Sachin Mamnani 4-26) lost to Ideal International 146-2 in 18.1 overs (Akbar Shaikh 71, Tushar Verma 31).

D Division: Oasis Water 123-7 (Jerin Davis 44, Rasel Amin 25; Mohammed Abbas 3-14) lost to Unique Elegant 124-1 in 15.4 overs (Ravi Sharma 70, Amit Sampat 35).