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Abu Dhabi: Bowlers ruled the roost in Saturday night's fixtures of the NMC Ramadan Cup Twenty20 Flood-lit cricket tournament being played here at the Zayed Cricket Stadium.
Nazar Hussain of Unique Cricket Training (UCT), made up for star import Mizbah Ul Haq's failure, with a four for 21 haul in the first match of the night.
UCT, who flew in Mizbah for the event, defeated Electro Cooling Centre CC by 52 runs. Batting first, UCT made 169 with Mizbah contributing just 12. Ali Akbar Rana (22) and Ansar Butt (24) boosted UCT to a fighting score.
ECC's reply ran into early trouble when they lost two wickets off the first two balls bowled by Sayed Fouad. However, opener Nalaka Parasad kept one end going but could not increase the tempo.
He remained unbeaten on 50 while Amrinder's breezy 31 also went in vain. Hussain picked up four wickets with his spinners to hasten ECC's downfall.
In the second match of the night, Rajesh Kumar of Avis Rent-a-Car came up with a five-wicket spell to send ADNOC crashing to a 65-run defeat.
Earlier Nitin Gopalkrishna slammed seven boundaries and one six in his 77-run innings which helped Avis reach 186 in 18.3 overs. Mubashir Ishaq and Asif Ghauri bowled well for ADNOC but their batsmen let them down in the run chase.
Only Shadaf Khan with 54 did well as ADNOC folded up for 121 in the face of some accurate bowling by Rajesh Kumar.
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