KARACHI, March 12: Shadab Kabir continued his magnificent form when he propelled Pakistan Customs to a comfortable eight-wicket victory over Lahore Whites in the National One-day Cricket Championship at National Stadium Tuesday.
The left-handed Test reject stroked an unbeaten 87 as Customs reached a modest victory target of 177 in 40.3 overs with eight wickets to spare.
Shadab, who had scores of 83 not out and 52 not out in the previous games, struck 11 boundaries in his 134-ball innings. He featured in a 66-run second wicket stand with Azhar Shafiq (26) and later put on 75 for the unfinished third wicket with skipper Aamir Bashir (37 not out).
Earlier, Lahore Whites struggled to 176 for nine from their 50 overs — thanks to a 114-ball 60 by Tariq Rasheed who struck three boundaries.
It was struggle all through Lahore innings who scored 47 from the first 15 overs and then collected 51 in the last 10 overs.
For Customs, spinning duo of Tabish Nawab and Salman Fazal equally shared six wickets between them. Off-spinner Tabish scooped up three for 45 while left-armer Salman bagged three for 27.
LAHORE WHITES:
Salman Butt c A.Iqbal b Azhar 25
Mohammad Shoaib c and b Nadeem 3
Khaqan Arsal c Waqas b Tabish 21
Hafiz Yawar c Azhar b Tabish 1
Tariq Rasheed st A. Iqbal b Salman 60
Rashid Riaz c A. Iqbal b Kashif 11
Saqib Masood c A. Bashir b Salman 21
Salman Qadir b Tabish 9
Mohammad Khalil b Salman 0
Farhan Rashid not out 0
EXTRAS (B-4, LB-1, W-10, NB-1) 16
TOTAL (for nine wkts, 50 overs) 176
FALL OF WKTS: 1-7, 2-40, 3-45, 4-64, 5-93, 6-156, 7-167, 8-167, 9-167.
DID NOT BAT: Imran Ali.
BOWLING: Waqas Chughtai 10-0-29-0; Nadeem Javed 7-2-22-1; Tabish Nawab 10-2-45-3; Azhar Shafiq 8-0-29-1; Salman Fazal 10-1-27-3; Kashif Siddique 5-0-19-0.
PAKISTAN CUSTOMS:
Kashif Siddique c Tariq b Farhan 8
Shadab Kabir not out 87
Azhar Shafiq c Saqib b Imran 26
Aamir Bashir not out 37
EXTRAS (B-1, W-11, NB-7) 19
TOTAL (for two wkts, 40.3 overs) 177
FALL OF WKTS: 1-36, 2-102.
DID NOT BAT: Asim Kamal, Aamir Iqbal, Nisar Abbas, Tabish Nawab, Salman Fazal, Waqas Chughtai, Nadeem Javed.
BOWLING: Imran Ali 10-1-36-1; Mohammad Khalil 10-0-67-0; Farhan Rashid 7.3-0-28-1; Salman Qadir 10-0-26-0; Tariq Rasheed 3-0-19-0.
RESULT: Pakistan Customs won three wickets.
MAN-OF-THE-MATCH: Shadab Kabir.
UMPIRES: Riazuddin and Shakeel Khan.
MATCH REFEREE: Taslim Arif.
Results of other Pool ‘A’ matches:
*Bahawalpur beat Rest of Sindh by 179 runs at UBL Sports Complex, Karachi
BAHAWALPUR 283-8 in 50 overs (Bilal Khilji 87, Mohammad Rashid 60, Hammad Tariq 49; Shahid Hussain 2-41, Agha Tahir 2-46, Rizwan Qureshi 2-56);
REST OF SINDH 104 in 33.5 overs (Rizwan Qureshi 33, Khalid Hussain 25; Maqbool Hussain 4-29, Imranullah 2-14, Tahir Maqsood 2-27).
*Karachi Whites beat Hyderabad by nine wickets at KCCA Stadium, Karachi
HYDERABAD 116 in 43 overs (Javed Khan 27, Iqbal Shaikh 21; Tahir Khan 5-17, Irfaanuddin 2-31);
KARACHI WHITES 118-1 in 19.2 overs (Saqib Zia 67 not out; Zeeshan Pervez 38 not out).
