KARACHI, Feb 28: Defending champions Interloop Wolves Faisalabad began their ABN-Amro One-day Gold League Cup campaign on a losing note when they went down by six wickets to Peshawar Panthers at the National Stadium here on Wednesday.

Put into bat, the Wolves were bowled out for 220 in the 49th over with only opener Asif Hussain (94 off 145 balls, five fours and four sixes) and Naved Latif (43 off 49 balls, six fours and one six) making notable contributions.

Pacer Fazle Akbar and slow left-armer Zohaib Khan took three wickets each.

Aftab Khan then hit 84 off 109 balls with 10 fours to see the Panthers home along with Wajahatullah Wasti (41 off 84 balls, two fours) in an unbroken fifth-wicket stand of 125.

Scoreboard

INTERLOOP WOLVES FAISALABAD:

Imran Ali c Zulfiqar b Fazle 0

Asif Hussain b Riaz 94

Usman Arshad b Fazle 0

Mohammad Salman b Zohaib 5

Naved Latif c sub b Aftab 43

Ijaz Ahmed Jr c Shoaib b Zohaib 33

Ahmed Hayat b Fazle 2

Tauqir Hussain c Aftab b Zohaib 18

Ali Raza run out 5

Saeed Ajmal not out 5

Asad Ali c and b Riffat 1

EXTRAS (LB-7, W-7) 14

TOTAL (all out, 48.5 overs) 220

FALL OF WKTS: 1-1, 2-7, 3-47, 4-105, 5-179, 6-183, 7-206, 8-206, 9-215.

BOWLING: Fazle Akbar 10-1-51-3 (2w); Riaz Afridi 10-1-30-1 (3w); Waqar Ahmed 9-0-42-0; Zohaib Khan 10-1-38-3; Mohammad Fayyaz 5-0-29-0; Aftab Khan 4-0-20-1 (1w); Riffatullah Mohmand 0.5-0-3-1 (1w).

PESHAWAR PANTHERS:

Yasir Hameed c Naved b Ahmed Hayat 22

Riffatullah Mohmand c Salman b Asad 20

Aftab Khan not out 84

Shoaib Khan lbw b Ali Raza 11

Mohammad Fayyaz lbw b Ahmed Hayat 5

Wajahatullah Wasti not out 41

EXTRAS (B-12, LB-4, W-10, NB-12) 38

TOTAL (for four wkts, 47.1 overs) 221

FALL OF WKTS: 1-52, 2-62, 3-78, 4-96.

DID NOT BAT: Zulfiqar Jan, Riaz Afridi, Zohaib Khan, Waqar Ahmed, Fazle Akbar.

BOWLING: Asad Ali 8-2027-1 (3nb); Ali Raza 9-0-59-1 (4nb, 4w); Ahmed Hayat 9-0-44-2 (2nb, 1w); Tauqir Hussain 2-0-10-0 (3nb); Saeed Ajmal 10-2-18-0; Imran Ali 2-0-11-0; Ijaz Ahmed Jr 5.1-0-27-0; Naved Latif 2-0-9-0.

RESULT: Peshawar Panthers won by six wickets.

UMPIRES: Siddique Khan and Islam Khan.

MATCH REFEREE: Taslim Arif.

OFFICIAL SCORER: Muhammad Ahsan.