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KARACHI, March 10: Habib Bank coasted to an easy 55-run win against Rest of Punjab in the National One-day Cricket Championship match at Sheikhupura Stadium Sunday.
According to details available here, the bankers made 173 for six after the match was reduced to a 25-over-per-side affair.
Hasan Raza (45 off 63 balls, two fours) and ex-Test batsman Ijaz Ahmed Senior (44 off 18 balls, six fours and one six) were the leading scorers for Habib Bank.
Punjab, in reply, were curtailed to 118 for nine with medium-pacer Sajid Shah claiming four for 16 in his quota of five overs.
HABIB BANK:
Imran Farhat b Asim 25
Saleem Elahi c Fayyaz b Sami 14
Hasan Raza c Fazil b Rizwan 45
Atiq-uz-Zaman c Kashif b Rizwan 23
Ijaz Ahmed Sr b Fayyaz 44
Abdul Rehman not out 2
Farhan Adil not out 0
EXTRAS (LB-2, W-17, NB-3) 22
TOTAL (for five wkts, 25 overs) 173
FALL OF WKTS: 1-41, 2-66, 3-116, 4-161, 5-173, 6-173.
DID NOT BAT: Sajid Shah, Kabir Khan, Shahid Nazir, Danish Kaneria.
BOWLING: Asim Butt 5-0-40-1; Fayyaz Hashmat 5-0-47-1; Samiullah Khan 4-0-15-1; Khurram Shahzad 5-0-16-0; Zeeshan Khan 3-0-27-0; Rizwan Ahmed 3-0-26-2.
REST OF PUNJAB:
Rizwan Ahmed lbw b Sajid 4
Zeeshan Khan c Ijaz b Sajid 10
Kashif Naveed c Atiq b A. Rehman 8
Sufian Munir c Atiq b Sajid 19
Kamran Ali b Sajid 1
Wasim Majeed run out 1
Mohammad Fazil not out 40
Fayyaz Hashmat c and b Kaneria 4
Asim Butt c Saleem b Imran 19
Khurram Shahzad c Saleem b Imran 3
EXTRAS (LB-2, W-4, NB-3) 9
TOTAL (for nine wkts, 25 overs) 118
FALL OF WKTS: 1-7, 2-21, 3-46, 4-48, 5-49, 6-51, 7-62, 8-105, 9-118.
DID NOT BAT: Samiullah Khan.
BOWLING: Kabir Khan 4-0-32-0; Sajid Shah 5-0-16-4; Abdul Rehman 5-1-11-1; Danish Kaneria 5-1-20-1; Imran Farhat 4-0-28-2; Shahid Nazir 2-0-9-0.
RESULT: Habib Bank won by 55 runs.
UMPIRES: Zamir Haider and Ijaz Ahmed.
MATCH REFEREE: Khalid Niazi.
Results of other Pool ‘C’ matches:
*Lahore Blues beat Sargodha by seven wickets at Sports Stadium, Sargodha
SARGODHA 140-7 in 27 overs (Atiq Ahmed 51; Khurram Siddique 3-22);
LAHORE BLUES 142-3 in 24.1 overs (Imran Nazir Jr 52 not out, Tariq Mahmood 41, Muntazar Mehdi 30).
*Sheikhupura beat Faisalabad by four wickets at Iqbal Stadium, Faisalabad
FAISALABAD 168 in 42.3 overs (Sohail Nazir 39, Mohammad Salman 33, Asif Hussain 26, Mohammad Usman 23; Mohammad Yasin 4-20, Arsalan Dogar 2-26, Asif Raza 2-34);
SHEIKHUPURA 169-6 in 47.3 overs (Sarfraz Shah 68 not out, Shakeel Ahmed 29; Moazzam Ali 3-37).
