Move over the Rawalpindi Express. Here comes the Manningham Missile.

Teenager Adal Islam, a pupil at Carlton-Bolling College, has won a Cricket speed bowling competition from an entry of over 500 at Edgbaston in Birmingham.

Islam, who plays for Manningham Mills in the Bradford League, was clocked at 74 miles per hour in the tournament that was ironically organised by Pakistani paceman Shoaib Akhtar, who was such an influential figure in his country's recent 2-0 Test series victory over England.

Also on the organising committee for the Sky TV-televised event - they were shooting throughout the day - among other professionals, was England one-day international Kabir Ali from Worcestershire.

Entries for the competition at the headquarters of Warwickshire County Cricket Club not only came from all over England but also other parts of Europe.

The reward for 17-year-old A-level PE student Islam was tickets, including flights and accommodation, for the current one-day international series between Pakistan and England in Lahore.

He has also been granted a 12-month contract at the Edgbaston-based Streets 2 Arena Academy.

Because of his studying commitments, though, Islam was unable to take up the Pakistani element of the prize.

However, realising his predicament, the organisers have changed his reward to tickets for next summer's one-day international series when Pakistan visit Eng-land.

No-one is more delighted at Islam's success than his mentor Zaheer Jaffary, who is a PE teacher at Carlton Bolling College.

He said: "I took a group of youngsters to compete at Edgbaston against some of the country's top junior and senior players.

"With Sky TV being there, the competition was intense. The bowling competition was held towards the end of the day

and Adal was performing in front of Warwickshire's scouts. His short-term ambition is to play for England under-19s, and it should be remembered he still has 18 months to achieve that as he is only 17."

Jaffary added: "I am particularly pleased for Adal because, given his lack of family support, I have invested a lot of time and effort over the years into getting him this far and it is fantastic that he has got this recognition. I also want to thank Carlton Bolling for backing him with £300 and hopefully my one-on-one coaching is also helping his dream to become a reality."