LAHORE, Dec 29: Opener Rizwan Aslam hit a career-best 209 to put Lahore Whites in a strong position against Gujranwala in the Quaid Trophy Group-III tie at LCCA Ground on Sunday.

Lahore Whites obtained a huge  260-run lead by declaring at 439 for nine with Rizwan, who began the day at 165, striking 27 boundaries during a marathon stay of exactly nine hours.

By close of play, Gujranwala were in deep trouble, losing four wickets  for 125.

In other matches of the group, pace duo of Shahid Nazir and  Sajid Shah shared eights between them to help Habib Bank score a 90-run win over Sheikhupura.

Meanwhile, a six-wicket haul by Sialkot’s medium-pacer Tahir Mughal left the match against Pakistan Customs evenly poised at Saga Ground.

Sialkot conceded a lead of 76 runs after making 179 in their  first innings but hit back to bowl out Customs for only 102 in the second innings.

However, the hosts found themselves in deep trouble at 48 for four, still needing 131 for victory.

Scoreboard

GUJRANWALA (1st Innings) 179 (Asim Munir 82; Wasim  Khan 4-63).

LAHORE WHITES (1st Innings, overnight 326-6):

Rizwan Aslam not out 209

Ikramullah lbw b Naved 1

Khurram Siddique lbw b Naved 63

Tariq Mahmood b Jahanzeb 9

Aamir Sajjad b Murtaza 42

Tariq Shaikh lbw b Naved 6

M. Hussain c Fayyaz b Jahanzeb 20

Khurram Chouhan c Idrees b Babar 21

Wasim Khan b Babar 6

Mudassar Mahboob b Naved 7

EXTRAS (B-26, LB-14, W-9, NB-6) 55

TOTAL (for nine dec, 138.5 overs) 439

FALL OF WKTS: 1-13, 2-163, 3-172, 4-289, 5-298, 6-342, 7-406, 8-412, 9-439.

BOWLING: Naved Arif 40.5-10-111-4; Rana Jahanzeb 27-4-86-2; Kamran Younis 20-6-49-0; Ghulam Murtaza 23-2-84-1; Babar Siddique 24-8-54-2; Fayyaz Ahmed 3-0-10-0; Asim Munir 1-0-5-0.

SHEIKHUPURA (2nd Innings):

Iftikhar Ahmed b Hussain 34

Ataullah lbw b Khurram 26

Mohammad Khalid lbw b Hussain 0

Naveed Arif not out 24

Asim Munir b Asif 14

Rana Jahanzeb not out 0

EXTRAS (B-5, LB-6, NB-11) 22

TOTAL (for four wkts, 66 overs) 125

FALL OF WKTS: 1-58, 2-58, 3-75, 4-125.

BOWLING (to-date): Wasim Khan 10-2-21-0; Khurram Chouhan 7-2-35-1; Mudassar Mahboob 3-0-15-0; Mohammad Hussain 7-2-35-1; Mohammad Asif 12-5-11-1; Khurram Siddique 6-2-13-0.

Summarised scores of other Group-III matches:

*At Sheikhupura Stadium, Sheikhupura:

Habib Bank beat Sheikhupura by 90 runs.

HABIB BANK 155 (Irfan Fazil 53; Waqas Chughtai 6-65) and 269 (Atiq-uz-Zaman 66, Asadullah Butt 63; Ayub Dogar 3-77);

SHEIKHUPURA 167 (Tahir Amin 38; Sajid Shah 4-37, Danish Kaneria 4-36) and 167 (Sajid Shah 4-37, Shahid Nazir 4-62).

*At Saga Ground, Sialkot:

PAKISTAN CUSTOMS 255 (Aamir Bashir 75, Shadab Kabir 32; Tahir Mughal 3-77, Shahid Khan 3-73) and 102 (Tahir Mughal 6-38);

SIALKOT 179 (Imran Ali 5-48, Nadeem Iqbal 4-46) and 48-4 (Abdul Rauf 3-19).