Spinners shine for Faisalabad

Published March 15, 2004

LAHORE, March 14: Spinners Farooq Iqbal and Saeed Ajmal steered Faisalabad to a 34-run win over Peshawar in theQuaid-i-Azam One-day Cup tie at the Iqbal Stadium, Faisalabad on Sunday.

Slow left-armer Farooq finished with the figures of four for 33 as Peshawar were all out for 222 in 48.3 overs. Promising off-spinner Saeed Ajmal claimed three for 49. Earlier, Faisalabad scored 256 for six.

Scoreboard

FAISALABAD:

Mohammad Hafeez lbw b Fazle 23

Mohammad Ramzan c Shoaib b Arshad 48

Mohammad Salman b Sajid 1

Imran Ali c Fayyaz b Sajid 5

Ijaz Ahmad Jr run out 62

Naved Latif b Fazle 47

Mohammad Zaman not out 27

Tauqir Hussain not out 20

EXTRAS (B-6, W-8, NB-9) 23

TOTAL (for six wkts, 50 overs) 256

FALL OF WKTS: 1-38, 2-50, 3-56, 4-157, 5-163, 6-222.

DID NOT BAT: Farooq Iqbal, Shahid Nazir, Saeed Ajmal.

BOWLING: Fazle Akbar 9-1-56-2; Umar Gul 7-0-32-0; Sajid Shah 10-0-52-2; Noor-ul-Amin 9-0-44-0; Arshad Khan 10-1-40-1; Fayyaz Khan 5-1-26-0.

PESHAWAR:

Wajahatullah Wasti c Imran b Farooq 39

Jahangir Khalil c Shahid b Hafeez 33

Altaf Khan c Ijaz b Saeed 57

Shoaib Khan run out 7

Riffatullah c Hafeez b Imran 21

Sajid Shah not out 14

Fayyaz Khan c Ramzan b Farooq 22

Umar Gul st Salman b Farooq 0

Arshad Khan c Tauqir b Saeed 2

Fazle Akbar st Salman b Saeed 11

Noor-ul-Amin c Tauqir b Farooq 2

EXTRAS (LB-6, W-6, NB-2) 14

TOTAL (all out, 48.3 overs) 222

FALL OF WKTS: 1-72, 2-92, 3-109, 4-166, 5-166, 6-201, 7-201, 8-205, 9-219.

BOWLING: Shahid Nazir 5-0-20-0; Tauqir Hussain 5-0-34-0; Farooq Iqbal 9.3-1-33-4; Mohammad Hafeez 10-2-21-1; Imran Ali 10-0-59-1;Saeed Ajmal 9-0-49-3.

RESULT: Faisalabad won by 34 runs.

MAN-OF-THE-MATCH: Farooq Iqbal and Ijaz Ahmed Jr (joint).

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