ABU DHABI, Jan 23: Inspired by centuries by Naveed Latif and Farhan Adil Pakistan A scored a thumping 153 runs win over Emirates Cricket Board in the second one-day match at Sheikh Zayed stadium on Thursday.

Put into bat Pakistan A amassed 352 for six in allotted 50 overs, and later restricted the home team to 199 for nines.

Scoreboard

Pakistan ‘A’:

Shahdab Kabir lbw Ali 6

Imran Farhat c&b Ahmad 46

Farhan Adil retired 100

Naveed Latif retired 108

Shoaib Malik c Afzal b Ali 28

Rana Naveed b Ali 33

Yasir Arafat not out 12

Atiq Uz Zaman not out 14

EXTRAS (b-4,ln-21,wb-11,nb-11) 47

TOTAL ( for six in 50 overs) 352

FALL OF WKTS 1-6,2-91,3-258,4-277,5-315,6-337

BOWLING: Ali Saeed 10-1-64-3, Asim Saeed 10-1-62-0, Ahmad Nadeem 9-0-68-1, Syed Mqasood 4-0-16-0, Kaif Ghouri 10-0-68-0, Muhammad Afzal 4-0-29-0, Muhammad Tauqir 3-0-38-0

ECB XI:

Asim Saeed b Umar 0

Kaif Ghouri c Imran b Najaf 0

Arshad Ali lbw b Umar 0

Maqsood Syed c Atiq b Imran 66

Nasir Siddique c Naveed b Najaf 8

Muhammad Afzal c Atiq b Shoaib 54

Ahmad Nadeem run out 1

Muhammad Tauqir b Ysir 7

Muhammad Nadeem b Yasir 1

Ali Asad not out 25

Khurram Khan not out 6

EXTRAS (b-4,lb-5,wb-6,nb-12) 27

TOTAL (for 9 in 50 overs) 199

FALL OF WKTS: 1-0,2-0,3-0,4-17,5-127,6-133 7-161,8-166,9-167

BOWLING: Umar Gull 5-0-25-2, Najaf Shah 5-0-13-2; Danish Kaneria 10-2-36-0, Yasir Arafat 10-1-36-2, Shoaib Malik 10-1-26-1, Imran Farhat 9-1-37-1, Shahdab Kabir 1-0-17-0.—APP

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