Brothers Union captain Nafis Iqbal led from the front at the MA Aziz Stadium

Local boy Nafis Iqbal led from the front to steer Brothers Union to the final of the Habib Group PCL Twenty20 tournament in the exciting first semifinal where they beat Dada Warriors by six wickets at the MA Aziz Stadium here yesterday.
Batting first, Dada Warriors scored 170 for 5 and in reply, Brothers reached the target in 19.4 overs losing six wickets.
Nafis, who remained unbeaten on 70, swept left-arm spinner Arafat Sunny's first ball of the final over to the square leg fence. He then picked up a single, leaving batting partner Rezaul Karim to score three runs from four balls. Left-hander Rezaul leveled the score with two runs pushed to midwicket and scampered the winning single off the fourth delivery. Delirious scenes erupted as Nafis, aided by a runner almost throughout his innings, snapped back to form with seven boundaries in his 56-ball knock after having scored just 40 runs from three previous matches.

BRIEF SCORES

DADA WARRIORS: 170-5 in 20 overs (Anwar 33, Zunaed 77, Faisal 20, Imran 4, Kashif 19, Arafat 3*, Kamrul 4*; Younus 3-14).

BROTHERS UNION: 171-6 in 19.4 overs (Mubarak 8, Nafis Iqbal 70*, Mehrab 4, Tushar 10, Kapugedara 29, Razzak 19, Dollar 3, Rezaul 13*; Anwar 1-18, Kashif 2-30, Arafat 1-34, Kamrul 1-32).Result: Brothers Union won by four wickets.Man-of-the-match: Nafis Iqbal.