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RAWALPINDI, March 8: Naveed Qureshi belted an undefeated 119 and Usman Saeed stroked 93 not out as Rawalpindi Rams walloped Karachi Zebras by eight wickets at the start of the National One-day Regional cricket championship on Wednesday.
Put in to bat at the Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium in this Gold League match, the visitors posted 271-7 off their 50 overs, a total overhauled by the Rams for the loss of two wickets.
Naveed struck 11 boun-daries and three sixes off 102 balls.
Together with Usman, who cracked seven fours, Naved shared an unbroken 217-run partnership for the third-wicket after the home side had lost openers Mohammad Wasim and Mohammad Ibrahim with 58 runs on the board.
The Zebras total revolved round a fine 99 by Shadab Kabir and Naumanullah’s 90.
Both batsmen smashed six fours and two sixes apiece.
Scoreboard
KARACHI ZEBRAS:
Khurram Manzoor c Wasim b Najaf 13
Shadab Kabir c Sajid b Najaf 99
Naumanullah c Pervez b Alamgir 90
Ashraf Ali run out 3
Hasan Raza c Ibrahim b Yasir 23
Farhan Adil c Usman b Najaf 16
Aminur Rahman not out 1
Tanvir Ahmed run out 1
EXTRAS (LB-13, W-8, NB-4) 25
TOTAL (for seven wkts, 50 overs) 271
FALL OF WKTS: 1-33, 2-214, 3-224, 4-233, 5-264, 6-269, 7-271.
DID NOT BAT: Rizwan Saeed, Azam Hussain, Tabish Khan.
BOWLING: Yasir Arafat 10-1-49-1; Najaf Shah 10-0-33-3; Sohail Tanvir 8-0-52-0; Rizwan Akbar 5-0-27-0; Alamgir Khan 10-0-53-1; Naveed Qureshi 7-0-44-0.
RAWALPINDI RAMS:
Mohammad Wasim c Amin b Tabish 34
Mohammad Ibrahim c Nauman b Tabish 16
Usman Saeed not out 93
Naveed Qureshi not out 119
EXTRAS (W-8, NB-5) 13
TOTAL (for two wkts, 46.5 overs) 275
FALL OF WKTS: 1-46, 2-58.
DID NOT BAT: Pervez Aziz, Sohail Tanvir, Yasir Arafat, Sajid Mahmood, Alamgir Khan, Rizwan Akbar, Najaf Shah.
BOWLING: Tanvir Ahmed 9-0-55-0; Tabish Khan 8-1-33-2; Azam Hussain 9.5-0-61-0; Naumanullah 9-0-59-0; Rizwan Saeed 6-0-31-0; Hasan Raza 5-0-36-0.
UMPIRES: Mian Aslam and Iftikhar Malik.
MATCH REFEREE: Khateeb Rizwan.
