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| February 18, 2007 | Sunday | Muharram 29, 1428 |
Salman’s ton in vain as Islamabad win
LAHORE, Feb 17: Despite an unbeaten century by Lahore Lion’s skipper Salman Butt, Islamabad Leopards won the opening one-day match of the Quaid-i-Azam Trophy Silver League by two wickets at the Gaddafi Stadium on Saturday.
Lions bat first and scored 236 for loss of nine wickets in allotted 50 overs. Test-discard Salman Butt, who has been included among reserved players for the upcoming World Cup, scored 129.
He faced 149 deliveries and hit 15 sweetly timed boundaries.
Salman, who had to lead Lahore Eagles in the Gold League, decided to play for the Lions as he wanted to remain in Lahore where the national training camp for the World Cup is going to start from Thursday.
For Islamabad, medium-pacer Bilal Asad captured three wickets for 30 runs while Zohaib Ahmed and Saad Altaf took two each.
In reply, the visitors reached the target in 49.4 overs for loss of eight wickets.
The top order gave Islamabad a fine start, despite opener Umair Khan (12), who went out cheaply on the total of 18. But the other opener, Afaq Raheem, along with Raheel Majeed put Lion's bowlers on sword, collecting 69 runs in the second-wicket stand as the total reached 87 by 17th over.
Afaq faced 73 deliveries in his innings of 38, laced with four boundaries.
Soon the winners suffered another blow as Raheel was brilliantly caught by Wasim Khan at long-leg off medium-pacer Waqas Ahmed on the total of 109.
Raheel struck two sixes and five boundaries in his knock of 43 off 38 deliveries.
Bazid Khan then led the chase with timely half-century. He was involved in two small partnerships, first with Bilal Asad and then with Atif Ashraf. Bilal and Atif scored 34 and 25 runs respectively.
Bazid scored 56 off 87 deliveries with the help of three fours. When he was clean bowled by Wahab, Islamabad were only 17 runs away from the target with four wickets in hand.
Naeem Anjum and Zohaib Ahmed remained unbeaten to complete the task.
Scoreboard
LAHORE LIONS
Junaid Malik c Atif b Zohaib 9
Salman Butt not out 129
Kashif Siddique c Fayyaz b Saad 3
Shahnawaz Malik lbw Saad 0
Adnan Raza c Afaq b Bilal 26
Zulqarnain Haider st Naeem b Bazid 3
Salman Qadir c Atif b Zohaib 20
Waqas Ahmed c Bilal b Fayyaz 13
Ali Azmat b Bilal 5
Wahab Riaz b Bilal 0
Wasim Khan not out 5
EXTRAS (LB-4, W-7, NB-12) 23
TOTAL (for nine wkts, 50 overs) 236
FALL OF WKTS: 1-35, 2-46, 3-51, 4-118, 5-125, 6-167, 7-190, 8-219, 9-219.
BOWLING: Rauf Akbar 10-0-41-0 (7nb); Saad Altaf 10-0-44-2 (5nb); Zohaib Ahmed 9-0-53-2; Bilal Asad 10-1-30-3; Bazid Khan 8-0-42-1; Fayyaz Ahmed 3-0-22-1.
ISLAMABAD LEOPARDS
Afaq Raheem lbw Azmat 38
Umair Khan c Qadir b Wahab 12
Raheel Majeed c Wasim b Waqas 43
Bilal Asad c Adnan b Azmat 34
Bazid Khan b Wahab 56
Atif Ashraf run out 25
Fayyaz Ahmed b Wasim 11
Rauf Akbar run out 3
Naeem Anjum not out 2
Zohaib Ahmed not out 4
EXTRAS (W-9, NB-4) 13
TOTAL (for eight wkts, 49.4 overs) 238
FALL OF WKTS: 1-18, 2-87, 3-109, 4-138, 5-182, 6-220, 7-229, 8-234.
DID NOT BAT: Saad Altaf
BOWLING: Wasim Khan 10-0-54-1 (1nb); Wahab Riaz 10-0-33-2 (3nb, 2w); Kashif Siddique 3-0-23-0; Waqas Ahmed 5-0-29-1; Salman Qadir 10-0-47-0; Ali Azmat 10-1-41-2; Salman Butt 2-0-11-0.
UMPIRES: Zaheer Ahmed, Raweed Khan
MATCH-REFEREE: Khalid Niazi
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