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AUS and Emirates advance

DUBAI - The third day of the 12th Skyline Inter-University Cricket Tournament – 2010 in Ajman Cricket Grounds saw excellent cricket from AUS and Emirates Aviation College as they defeated Szabist University and UOWD with clear dominance.

AUS trounced Szabist by 63 runs while Emirates Aviation College defeated UOWD by 70 runs to record their first wins in pool matches, a press release said.

AUS, who won the toss, elected to bat first. Openers Fahad and Pramod gave them a spectacular start by scoring 13 runs in the very first over, including a sixer and a boundary.

Fahad was in great form hitting sixers and boundaries, but Pramod was unfortunate as he got run out in the third over.

Nabeel, who joined Fahad, built a good partnership stand of 57 runs. Later Harris and Mousab scored 26 and 20 not out to take AUS to a decent score of 157. Abbas and Yasit took two wickets each for Szabist, though Yasir was bit expensive, giving away 42 runs. Mubashir gave 37 runs to take one wicket. Sufiyan gave only 22 runs and took one wicket for Szabist.

Szabist started the innings with their star player Sufiyan caught by the keeper in the first over itself was a great set back to them. He just faced three balls while the score board was yet to open.

The next batsmen Osama and Yasir did a great job as they scored 48 runs. Both of them were caught in adjacent balls and put Szabist in deep trouble. From then it was a steady fall of wickets in regular intervals.