LAHORE, March 7: Unbeaten centuries by opener Mohammad Hafeez and Mohammad Salman steered Faisalabad to a nine-wicket win over Multan in theQuaid-i-Azam One-day Cup match at the Iqbal Stadium in Faisalabad on Sunday.

Hafeez scored a run-a-ball 123 with 15 fours and two sixes as Faisalabad knocked off the target of 282 in 42.5 overs for the loss of one wicket. Salman hit 113 with 13 fours off 133 balls.

Scoreboard

MULTAN:

Yasir Arafat Jr c Ijaz Jr b Farooq 86

Azhar Shafiq c Farooq b Shahid 13

Usman Tariq c Zaman b Tauqir 51

Aamir Bashir b Shahid 70

Saeed Anwar Jr run out 8

Rehan Rafiq not out 27

Mohammad Sarwar b Shahid 0

Aamir Ata not out 5

EXTRAS (LB-6, W-15) 21

TOTAL (for six wkts, 50 overs) 281

FALL OF WKTS: 1-20, 2-106, 3-202, 4-216, 5-253, 6-258.

DID NOT BAT: Abdul Rauf, Mohammad Zahid, Nadeem Iqbal.

BOWLING: Shahid Nazir 8-0-56-3; Faisal Afridi 8-0-41-0; Saeed Ajmal 10-1-57-0; Tauqir Hussain 7-0-31-1; Mohammad Hafeez 7-0-32-0; Farooq Iqbal 10-0-58-1.

FAISALABAD:

Mohammad Hafeez not out 123

Mohammad Ramzan c Aamir b Nadeem 21

Mohammad Salman not out 113

EXTRAS (B-2, LB-6, W-3, NB-15) 26

TOTAL (for one wkt, 42.5 overs) 283

FALL OF WKT: 1-40.

DID NOT BAT: Ijaz Ahmed Jr, Naved Latif, Mohammad Zaman, Tauqir Hussain, Farooq Iqbal, Shahid Nazir, Faisal Afridi, Saeed Ajmal.

BOWLING: Abdul Rauf 9-0-56-0; Nadeem Iqbal 10-0-71-1; Mohammad Zahid 10-1-42-0; Saeed Anwar Jr 7-0-46-0; Azhar Shafiq4.5-0-45-0; Rehan Rafiq 2-0-15-1.

RESULT: Faisalabad won by nine wickets.

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