KARACHI, March 15: Arsalan Mir came up with a good all-round show as Lahore Eagles inflicted a five-wicket defeat on Rawalpindi Rams in the National One-day Regional Gold League fixture at the NBP Sports Complex on Wednesday.
Arsalan claimed three crucial wickets, including those of internationals Mohammad Wasim and Yasir Arafat, with his medium-pacers after the Eagles skipper Aamir Sajjad won the toss.
Apart from opener Mohammad Ibrahim, who scored a 52-ball 40 with five boundaries, the rest of batting disappointed and the Rams crashed to 128 all out in the 42nd over.
The Eagles lost five wickets by the 24th over, three of them to Yasir. But Arsalan (45 off 64 balls, six fours and one six) and Jahangir Mirza (32 off 42 balls, three fours) guided them home with an unbroken stand of 73.
Scoreboard
RAWALPINDI RAMS:
Mohammad Wasim b Arsalan 9
Mohammad Ibrahim c Shahbaz b Arsalan 40
Usman Saeed b Khalil 2
Naveed Qureshi b Jamshed 0
Pervez Aziz c Khalil b Usman 20
Yasir Arafat c Shahbaz b Arsalan 14
Sajid Mahmood run out 3
Sohail Tanvir not out 13
Yasin Murtaza c Shahbaz b Jahangir 6
Alamgir Khan b Sohail 13
Najaf Shah b Jahangir 0
EXTRAS (LB-1, W-5, NB-2) 8
TOTAL (all out, 41.2 overs) 128
FALL OF WKTS: 1-19, 2-20, 3-56, 4-76, 5-82, 6-91, 7-98, 8-108, 9-127.
BOWLING: Mohammad Khalil 7-4-15-1 (1w); Jamshed Ahmed 6-2-20-1; Arsalan Mir 10-0-41-3 (2nb, 3w); Usman Malik 10-1-24-1 (1w); Jahangir Mirza 4.2-1-16-2; Sohail Ahmed 4-0-11-1.
LAHORE EAGLES:
Mohammad Ashfaq c Sajid b Yasir 10
Sohail Ahmed run out 17
Muntazar Mehdi b Yasir 1
Abid Ali c Sajid b Yasir 6
Aamir Sajjad c Sajid b Sohail 9
Arsalan Mir not out 45
Jahangir Mirza not out 32
EXTRAS (LB-2, W-7, NB-1) 10
TOTAL (for five wkts, 39.3 overs) 130
FALL OF WKTS: 1-14, 2-22, 3-35, 4-45, 5-57.
DID NOT BAT: Shahbaz Butt, Usman Malik, Mohammad Khalil, Jamshed Ahmed.
BOWLING: Yasir Arafat 8-3-9-3 (2w); Najaf Shah 8-1-21-0 (2w); Sohail Tanvir 10-1-34-1 (3w); Alamgir Khan 8.3-0-36-0 (1nb); Yasin Murtaza 5-0-28-0.
UMPIRES: Shakeel Khan and Riazuddin.
MATCH REFEREE: Khateeb Rizwan.
