Spinners shine for Faisalabad
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).