LAHORE, April 13: Superb bowling by leg-spinner Imran Javed and paceman Mohammad Sami steered National Bank of Pakistan (NBP) to a resounding 10-wicket win over Faisalabad, inside two-days, in the Pentangular Cup cricket tournament at Multan Stadium on Thursday.

Imran gave away 34 runs to claim four wickets while Sami, who took five wickets in the first innings, returned a figure of 3-28.

Faisalabad batsmen for the second failed and the entire team was bundled out for 165 in the second innings and set a meagre target of 22 only for the bankers after earlier conceding 144-runs first innings lead.

The bankers achieved the target without losing any wicket in 3.3 overs.

Earlier, NBP resumed their second innings at 197-7 and were all out for 241 in 64.3 overs to gain first innings lead.

Scoreboard

FAISALABAD (1st innings): 97 (Mohammad Sami 5-31)

NBP (1st innings, overnight 197-7)

Faisal Athar lbw b Samiullah 44

Nasir Jamshed c Salman b Asad 47

Naumanullah c Misbah b Nazir 24

Shahid Yousuf c Hafeez b Nazir 1

Akhtar Sarfraz c Salman b Nazir. 9

Qaiser Abbas c Salman b Samiullah 27

Imran Javed c Hafeez b Asad 12

Yasir Arafat b Asad 10

Mohammad Sami not out 33

Naeem Ahmed c Salman b Samiullah 1

Wasim Khan lbw b Samiullah 4

EXTRAS (B-2 , LB-7, NB-14, W-6) 29

TOTAL (all out, 64.3 overs) 241

FALL OF WKTS: 1-70, 2-117, 3-124, 4-136, 5-142, 6-165, 7-185, 8-209, 9-224.

BOWLING: Shahid Nazir 21-4-94-3 (10nb); Samiullah Khan 24.3-2-67-4 (w6); Asad Ali 16-1-57-3 (4nb); Imran Khalid 3-0-14-0.

FAISALABAD (2nd innings):

Mohammad Hafeez c Akhtar b Sami 0

Imran Ali b Yasir 11

Asif Hussain lbw b Wasim. 0

Mohammad Zahid c Naeem b Yasir 11

Misbah-ul-Haq c Akhtar b Sami. 0

Ijaz Ahmed c Naeem b Imran 45

Mohammad Salman c Faisal b Imran. 22

Imran Khalid not out 31

Shahid Nazir c Yasir b Imran 15

Samiullah Khan c Akhtar b Imran 0

Asad Ali c Naeem b Sami 9

EXTRAS (B-4, LB-10, NB-3, W-4) 21

TOTAL (all out, 46 overs) 165

FALL OF WKTS: 1-1, 2-2, 3-16, 4-19, 5-41, 6-89, 7-106, 8-124, 9-127.

BOWLING: Mohammad Sami 10-3-28-3 (1nb, 1w); Wasim Khan 11-3-30-1 (2w); Yasir Arafat 13-2-52-2 (2nb); Imran Javed 11-1-34-4 (1w);

Shahid Yousuf 1-0-7-0.

NBP (2nd innings):

Faisal Athar not out 11

Nasir Jamshed not out 9

EXTRAS (LB-1, NB-1) 2

TOTAL (no wicket, 3.3 overs) 22

BOWLING: Samiullah Khan 2-0-13-0; Asad Ali 1.3-0-8-0.

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