Narrow win for Faisalabad

Published February 9, 2004

LAHORE,Feb 8: Faisalabad scored a thrilling one-wicket victory over Sialkot in the Quaid-i-Azam One-day Cup match at the Iqbal Stadium in Faisalabad on Sunday

According to details available here, tailender Faisal Afridi was the home team's hero with 23 while putting on match-winning 22 with last man Saeed Ajmal (5).

Scoreboard

SIALKOT:

Imran Nazir lbw Ahmed Hayat 26

Qaiser Abbas c Naved b Faisal 0

Shahid Yousuf c Misbah b Faisal 5

Kamran Younis c and b Saeed 38

Shahzad Malik c Ahmed Hayat b Farooq 28

Faisal Khan not out 46

Rana Naveed-ul-Hasan run out 26

Hafiz Khalid b Saeed 0

Jaffar Nazir c and b Hafeez 6

Abdul Rehman run out 3

Zahid Saeed run out 11

EXTRAS (LB-6, W-12, NB-3) 21

TOTAL (all out, 49.3 overs) 210

FALL OF WKTS: 1-2, 2-21, 3-55, 4-112, 5-120, 6-162, 7-163, 8-179, 9-184.

BOWLING: Faisal Afridi 6-0-39-1; Ahmed Hayat 7-1-32-2; Tauqir Hussain 5-1-23-0; Farooq Iqbal 10-1-28-1; Saeed Ajmal 10-0-22-2; Mohammad Hafeez 8.3-47-1; Ijaz Ahmed Jr 3-0-13-0.

FAISALABAD:

M. Hafeez c Kamran b Rana Naveed 0

M. Ramzan c Rana Naveed b Jaffar 13

Ijaz Ahmad Jr c Kamran b Rana Naveed 3

Misbah-ul-Haq ct Khalid b Kamran 29

Naved Latif c Imran b Zahid 30

Mohammad Salman c Imran b Zahid 0

Farooq Iqbal run out 8

Tauqir Hussain run out 26

Ahmed Hayat c Rana Naveed b Jaffar 47

Faisal Afridi not out 23

Saeed Ajmal not out 5

EXTRAS (LB-1, W-13, NB-13) 27

TOTAL (for nine wkts, 49 overs) 211

FALL OF WKTS: 1-1, 2-26, 3-27, 4-89, 5-92, 6-103, 7-112, 8-164, 9-189.

BOWLING: Rana Naveed-ul-Hasan 9-0-39-2; Jaffar Nazir 10-2-49-2; Zahid Saeed 10-0-53-2; Abdul Rehman 10-1-22-0; Kamran Yousuf 8-1-29-1; Qaiser Abbas 2-0-18-2.

RESULT: Faisalabad won by one wicket.

UMPIRES: Aleem Dar and Asad Rauf.

MATCH REFEREE: Musaddeq Rasool.

MAN-OF-THE-MATCH: Ahmed Hayat.

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