KARACHI, March 30: A splendid all-round performance by Pakistan Customs’ Nisar Abbas thwarted ADBP’s aspirations of reaching the semifinals of the one-day cricket championship at Iqbal Stadium in Faisalabad Saturday.
Nisar scored 86 off 101 balls as Customs ran up an impressive total of 294 for seven in 50 overs. Then with his slow left-armers, Nisar captured six for 42 in nine overs to restrict ADBP to 245 all out.
ADBP ended with four points as did Wapda and Customs but finished third in the final round standings of Group-II on net run-rate.
Customs captain Aamir Bashir hammered 102 off 110 deliveries after losing the toss. His knock was laced with six fours and one. The fourth-wicket partnership between Aamir and Nisar, who hit eight fours and one six, produced 111 runs. Asim Kamal remained on 44 not out off as many balls with three hits to the fence.
Openers Inam-ul-Haq (80 off 99 balls, six fours) and Imran Abbas (52 off 60 balls, seven fours) gave ADBP a perfect start by putting on 108 in 20 overs.
But the remaining batsmen found the runs hard to come by, especially against Nisar, who was the obvious choice as the Man-of-the-Match.
PAKISTAN CUSTOMS:
Azhar Shafiq b Mubashir 0
Shadab Kabir c and b Tahir 24
Kashif Siddique c Bilal b Iftikhar 3
Nisar Abbas b Javed 86
Aamir Bashir c Iftikhar b Inam 102
Asim Kamal not out 44
Faisal Hussain c Mubashir b Zahoor 6
Aamir Iqbal run out 5
EXTRAS (LB-8, W-6, NB-10) 24
TOTAL (for seven wkts, 50 overs) 294
FALL OF WKTS: 1-0, 2-8, 3-72, 4-183, 5-274, 6-286, 7-294.
DID NOT BAT: Nadeem Javed, Salman Fazal, Tabish Nawab.
BOWLING: Mubashir Nazir 6-0-30-1; Rao Iftikhar 10-0-41-1; Tahir Mughal 10-1-62-1; Faisal Naved 1-0-7-0; Inam-ul-Haq 7-0-42-1; Javed Hayat 10-0-59-1; Zahoor Elahi 6-0-45-1.
ADBP:
Inam-ul-Haq run out 80
Imran Abbas c Shadab b Tabish 52
Zahoor Elahi c sub (Waqas) b Nisar 27
Mansoor Rana st Aamir Iqbal b Nisar 10
Tahir Mughal c Faisal b Nisar 0
Hafiz Majid c Aamir Iqbal b Nisar 15
Faisal Naved st Aamir Iqbal b Nisar 17
Javed Hayat c Faisal b Nisar 13
Bilal Ahmed run out 5
Mubashir Nazir not out 8
Rao Iftikhar b Kashif 6
EXTRAS (LB-3, W-8, NB-1) 12
TOTAL (all out, 50 overs) 245
FALL OF WKTS: 1-108, 2-161, 3-173, 4-178, 5-179, 6-205, 7-215, 8-226, 9-235.
BOWLING: Azhar Shafiq 8-0-52-0; Nadeem Javed 6-1-30-0; Tabish Nawab 10-0-44-1; Salman Fazal 10-0-44-0; Kashif Siddique 7-0-30-1; Nisar Abbas 9-0-42-6.
RESULT: Pakistan Customs won by 49 runs.
UMPIRES: Mian Aslam and Athar Zaidi.
MATCH REFEREE: Musaddeq Rasool.
MAN-OF-THE-MATCH: Nisar Abbas.
(Tabulated under played, won, lost, points, net run-rate):
Habib Bank 3 3 0 12 +1.79
PIA 3 2 1 8 -0.64
Allied Bank 3 1 2 4 -0.38
Sui Gas 3 0 3 0 -0.55
National Bank 3 3 0 12 +1.24
Wapda 3 1 2 4 +0.01
Customs 3 1 2 4 -0.60
ADBP 3 1 2 4 -0.63
Semifinals schedule (April 2): *Habib Bank v Wapda at National Stadium, Karachi (Umpires: Shakeel Khan and Asad Rauf. Match referee: Taslim Arif). *National Bank v PIA at Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore (Umpires: Salim Badar and Aleem Dar. Match referee: Azhar Khan).