Hyderabad Kingsmen Academy and the Oil and Gas Field Development Company met in the President's Trophy, Grade I, on 18 September 2026, with the visitors edging through 419 to 418. The result was decided by a single point, and that is the only fact worth circling for now. By then, both sides had been trading blows in similar fashion across their recent outings.
The hosts came into the fixture with a string of heavy defeats, including a 610 to 714 loss to March IT Solutions and a 92 to 96 scrap with Adelaide Academy Strikers. To be fair, they had also seen off Nepal 197 to 166 and Australia A 141 to 121 in August. Hyderabad's defence looked fragile, but there was no collapse here — just a narrow miss.
The visitors arrived with mixed fortunes of their own. A 268 to 400 hammering by Pakistan Television in September sat alongside a 182 to 181 win over Gan Glass and a 244 to 243 draw with Sui Northern Gas Pipelines from December. And here's the thing: they had been close before, and now they were closer still. The margin of victory matched the pattern of their recent games.
There were no minutes to track, no substitutions to note. The scoreboard tells the whole story: 419 to 418 after regulation play. The hosts pushed hard but could not find that extra point, and the away end never stopped believing until the final whistle. It was the sort of result that leaves you wondering what one possession or one decision would have changed.
In the standings, both sides sit unplaced with zero games recorded, so the table offers nothing to analyse. What matters is the run each team carries into the next fixture. Hyderabad will need to tighten the defence, while the visitors must prove this was not a fluke. The gap between them remains one point, and that is enough to keep both camps watching closely.
