16 January 2005	Sunday	05 Zilhaj 1425

RAWALPINDI, Jan 15: Sialkot Stallions secured a nail-biting victory over Rawalpindi Rams in the National One-day Cup, beating the home team by only one run at the Rawalpindi Stadium.

Needing 10 runs off the last over, the Rams could manage only eight finishing on 229 for seven chasing 231 runs for victory with Usman Saeed (44) and Yasir Arafat (3) remaining not out.

The Stallions who were asked to bat first, rode on the good work of Sarfraz Ahmed who scored an unbeaten 39, to post a decent 230 for eight. The batsman smashed four sixes, three to Babar Naeem in the 44th over that yielded 22 runs and also treated Yasir Arafat with one big hit in the following over.

Sarfraz who later picked up two wickets, was declared Man-of-the- Match. Sialkot were also helped by some useful contributions from Bilal Hussain (38), Shahid Yousuf (36) and Mansoor Amjad who got 32 runs.

Alamgir Khan and Babar took two wickets each. For Rams, Naved Qureshi top-scored with a fine 79 in an 88-ball innings in which he struck 10 fours.

SCOREBOARD



SIALKOT STALLIONS 



Imran Nazir b Najaf                          5 



Faisal Naveed b Yasir                        0 



Bilal Hussain lbw b Jawad Hameed             38 



Mansoor Amjad c Yasir b Alamgir              32 



Shahid Yousaf c Bilal b Babar                36 



Qaiser Abbas c Ashar Zaidi b Almagir         12 



Shahzad Malik c Ashar b Babar                26 



Hafiz Khalid st Bilal b Ashar                3 



Sarfraz Ahmed not out                        39 



M. Asif not out                              6 



Extras (LB-10, W-14, NB-9)                   33 



Total (for eight wkts, 45)                   230 



Fall OF WKTS: 1-9, 2-13, 3-98, 4-98, 5-134, 6-168, 7-180, 8-186 



BOWLING: Yasir Arafat 7-0-50-1, Najaf Shah 7-0-22-1, 
Rizwan Akbar 3-0-31-0, Alamgir Khan 9-0-35-2, 
Jawad Hameed 9-1-35-1, Babar Naeem 6-0-34-2, Ashar Zaidi 4-0-13-1. 



RAWALPINDI RAMS 



Babar Naeem c Khalid b Sarfraz Ahmed         2 



Afaq Raheem run out                          15



Bilal Asad c Qaiser Abbas b Mansoor          25 



Ashar Zaidi lbw b Sarfraz                    9 



Naved Qureshi c Sarfraz b Mansoor            79 



Usman Saeed not out                          44 



Yasir Arafat run out                         3 



Alamgir Khan lbw b Qaiser                    0 



Jawad Hameed not out                         28 



Extras (B-1, LB-5, W-9, NB-9)                24 



Total (for seven wkts, 45 overs)             229 



Fall OF WKTS: 1-9, 2-29, 3-50, 4-85, 5-162, 6-170, 7-170 



BOWLING: Sarfraz Ahmed 9-1-26-2, Ali Imran Pasha 9-0-59-0, 
M. Asif 9-0-40-0, Mansoor Amjad 9-0-43-2, Faisal Naveed 3-0-29-0, 
Qaiser Abbas 6-1-26-1.