LAHORE, Oct 31: Peshawar, the reigning Quaid-i-Azam Trophy champions, suffered their second straight defeat after going down to Lahore Shalimar by 140 runs in the Gold League match at the LCCA Ground on Monday.

Ex-international Junaid Zia followed his first-innings five-wicket haul with four for 47 as Peshawar were dismissed for 214 in the second innings.

Shoaib Khan, overnight 39, was the highest run-getter for Peshawar with 54.

Besides Junaid, Test left-armer Mohammad Khalil claimed three for 51.

SCOREBOARD

LAHORE SHALIMAR (1st Innings) 225 (Junaid Zia 60 not out, Aamir Sajjad 55; Fazle Akbar 4-43).

PESHAWAR (1st Innings) 81 (Junaid Zia 5-27, Fahad Masood 4-39).

LAHORE SHALIMAR (2nd Innings) 210 (Humayun Farhat 68; Riaz Afridi 4-51).

PESHAWAR (2nd Innings, overnight 122-5):

Riffatullah Mohmand b Fahad 7

Muhammad Fayyaz c Humayun b Junaid 1

Aftab Khan lbw b Junaid 2

Wajahatullah c Humayun b Ashfaq 43

Shoaib Khan b Kamran 54

Akhtar Sarfraz lbw b Khalil 15

Zulfiqar Jan c Arsalan b Junaid 12

Aslam Qureshi lbw b Khalil 8

Riaz Afridi not out 32

Fazle Akbar c Arsalan b Khalil 6

EXTRAS (B-8, LB-7, NB-6, PR-5) 26

TOTAL (all out, 62.3 overs) 214

FALL OF WKTS: 1-4, 2-10, 3-10, 4-38, 5-109, 6-130, 7-155, 8-191, 9-207.

BOWLING: Fahad Masood 13-5-27-1 (1nb); Junaid Zia 17-2-47-4 (2nb); Mohammad Khalil 12.3-1-51-3 (2nb); Sohail Ahmed 4-0-16-0 (1nb); Arsalan Mir 5-1-10-0; Ashfaq Ahmed 6-1-14-1; Kamran Sajid 5-1-29-1.

UMPIRES: Shakeel Khan and Afzaal Ahmed.

MATCH REFEREE: Azhar Khan.

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