LAHORE, Nov 17: Fine bowling by right-arm medium pacer Asad Ali, who captured five wickets enabled Faisalabad inflict a six- wicket defeat over Lahore Shalimar in the Quaid-i-Azam Trophy Gold League match at the LCCA ground on Thursday.

Lahore Shalimar after conceding a 85 runs lead on first innings, were all out in the second innings for 239 after resuming at 155-4 Asad, who had taken two wickets on Wednesday added three more scalps to finish with five for 45, while Sohail Ahmed remained top scorer with 60.

Chasing the target, Faisalabad were well served by unbeaten Naved Latif (44, three fours, three sixes) and Misbahul Haq (43, five fours, one six) to achieve it for the loss of four wickets in 33.1 overs.

Scoreboard

LAHORE SHALIMAR (1st innings): 76

FAISALABAD (1st innings) 161

LAHORE SHALIMAR (2nd innings, overnight 155-4):

Imran Farhat c Salman b Sanaullah 12

M. Ashfaq c Imran Ali b Ahmed 17

Imran Qadir c Misbah b Asad 18

Aamer Sajjad b Asad 52

Sohail Ahmed b Ahmad 60

Arslan Mir c Ijaz b Ahmad 18

Humayun Farhat c Imran b Ahmed 7

Junaid Zia c Naved b Asad 9

Fahad Masood c Asif b Asad 22

Muhammad Khalil c Samiullah b Asad 0

Usama Aftab not out 8

EXTRAS (B-4, LB-4, W-1, NB-5) 16

TOTAL (all out, 97 overs) 239

FALL OF WKTS: 1-24, 2-30, 3-61, 4-154, 5-179, 6-191, 7-207, 8- 213, 9-223.

BOWLING: Samiullah Niazi 19-5-47-1; Ahmad Hayat 29-1-88-4; Asad Ali 24-5- 45-5; Muhammad Hafeez 13-4-25-0; Imran Khalid 12-3-24-0.

FAISALABAD (2nd innings):

Muhammad Hafeez c Fahad b Arslan 15

Imran Ali c I Farhat b Arslan 32

Asif Hussai b lbw b Sohail 5

Misbahul Haq b Fahad 43

Naved Latif not out 44

Ijaz Ahmed Jnr not out 8

EXTRAS (B-2, LB-2, NB-7) 11

TOTAL (for four wkts, 33.1 overs) 158

FALL OF WKTS: 1-51, 2-52, 3-84, 4-120.

BOWLING: Fahad Masood 8-2-43-1; Junaid Zia 9-2-36-0; Muhammad Khalil 5-1- 21-0; Arslan Mir 4-1-12-2; Usama Aftab 4-0-29-0; Sohail Ahmad 3-0-7-1; Imran Farhat 0.1-0-6-0.