LAHORE, Feb 22: Fine knocks by Saleem Elahi, Taufiq Umar and Kamran Akmal enabled Lahore beat Rawalpindi by five wickets in the Quaid-i-Azam Cup one-day match at the LCCA Ground here on Sunday.
Saleem struck an unbeaten 78 and with Kamran (43, four fours, 53 balls) surpassed the winning target of 266. Saleem and wicket-keeper Kamran added 87 in the unbroken sixth wicket partnership.
Saleem laced his defiant 84-ball knock with seven boundaries. Test opener Taufiq also scored 78, but he was more aggressive as consumed 71 balls and cracked 11 fours and three sixes.
Scoreboard
RAWALPINDI:
Bilal Asad lbw b Razzaq 39
Babar Naeem run out 5
Ashar Zaidi lbw b Wasim 5
Bazid Khan lbw b Wasim 0
Naveed Qureshi c Saleem b Saqlain 101
Mohammad Shahbaz c Kamran b Razzaq 0
Azhar Mahmood c sub b Razzaq 73
Shoaib Akhtar c Imran b Saqlain 10
Yasir Arafat b Razzaq 11
Alamgir Khan not out 7
Najaf Shah run out 0
EXTRAS (LB-2, W-5, NB-7) 14
TOTAL (all out, 49.5 overs) 265
FALL OF WKTS: 1-9, 2-7, 3-18, 4-73, 5-73, 6-229, 7-241, 8-258, 9-265.
BOWLING: Wasim Khan 10-1-50-2; Mohammad Khalil 10-1-40-0; Abdul Razzaq 9.5-0-67-4; Azhar Ali 3.2-0-9-0; Saqlain Mushtaq 10-0-60-2; Imran Farhat 6.4-0-37-0.
LAHORE:
Imran Farhat c Shahbaz b Najaf 23
Taufiq Umar b Azhar 78
Saleem Elahi not out 78
Salman Butt lbw Azhar 4
Adil Nisar c Shahbaz b Azhar 9
Abdul Razzaq b Bilal 4
Kamran Akmal not out 43
EXTRAS (B-5, LB-5, W-9, NB-8) 27
TOTAL (for five wkts, 42.5 overs) 266
FALL OF WKTS: 1-63, 2-58, 3-164, 4-174, 5-179.
DID NOT BAT: Saqlain Mushtaq, Mohammad Khalil, Wasim Khan, Azhar Ali.
