KARACHI, April 8: Pakistan Customs returned to the top of Pool ‘B’ standings in the Patron’s Cup after defeating National Bank by 81 runs at the Gymkhana Ground in Okara on Friday.
By virtue of their third win in for matches, Customs are almost through to the semifinal stage.
Off-spinner Murtaza Hussain grabbed four for 45 as National Bank were all out for 212 after Customs had made 293 for eight. Fawad Alam top-scored for the winners with 69 off 73 balls.
Scoreboard
PAKISTAN CUSTOMS:
Kashif Siddique c Nauman b Wasim 38 M. Ali Niazi lbw b Wasim 8
Azhar Shafiq c Rashid b Qaiser 55 Shahid Siddique run out
2 Naseem Khan lbw b Wasim 0 Afsar Nawaz lbw b Zahid 49 Fawad Khan b Nauman 69 Kamran Hussain lbw b Nauman 34 Hanif Malik not out 13 Murtaza Hussain not out 12
EXTRAS (LB-6, W-7) 13 TOTAL (for eight wkts, 50 overs) 293 FALL OF WKTS: 1-18, 2-65, 3-71, 4-72, 5-127, 6-184, 7-263, 8-265. DID NOT BAT:
Majid Majeed, (Imran Ali). BOWLING: Zahid Saeed 10-0-54-1 (1w); Wasim Khan 9-0-50-3 (1w); Aleem Musa 5-0-44-0 (2w); Irfanuddin 8-0-50-0; Qaiser Abbas 10-0-40-1; Rahman Qadir 5-0-33-0; Naumanullah 3-0-16-2 (3w).
NATIONAL BANK:
Rashid Riaz lbw b Kamran 10 Sajid Ali c Kamran b Murtaza 43 Nasir Jamshed c Kashif b Imran 8 Naumanullah c Kashif b Murtaza 42 Qaiser Abbas c Ali Niazi b Majid 13 Akhtar Sarfraz not out 28 Mohammad Javed run out
1 Rahman Qadir b Murtaza 0 Wasim Khan lbw b Murtaza 2 Zahid Saeed c Hanif b Kashif 45 Irfanuddin c Imran b Fawad 2
EXTRAS (B-5, LB-10, W-3) 18 TOTAL (all out, 46.4 overs) 212 FALL OF WKTS: 1-32, 2-47, 3-110, 4-116, 5-136, 6-138, 7-139, 8-144, 9-209. DID NOT BAT: (Aleem Musa). BOWLING: Kamran Hussain 8-2-26-1; Imran Ali 5-0-26-1; Kashif Siddique 7-0-36-1; Fawad Alam 6.4-0-24-1; Murtaza Hussain 10-0-45-4; Majid Majeed 10-0-40-1 (3w).
UMPIRES: Iftikhar Malik and Ijaz Ahmed. MATCH REFEREE: Khalid Niazi.
