Saeed steers KRL to victory

ISLAMABAD - Saeed Anwar (154 not out) sailed Khan Research Laboratories (KRL) in achieving 246 runs target to post a massive win by 8 wickets against Pakistan Customs in the Royal Bank of Scotland Cup cricket match at KRL Cricket Stadium Rawalpindi on Saturday. The losers set a reasonable total on the board of 245 runs in the 50 overs innings, however, their all batsmen wasted their wickets as two balls were spare. Jibran Khan (86) and Rameez Raja (55) were the main scorers for the Custom. Test bowler Shoaib Akhter could not show any impressive performance with the ball for KRL. He claimed only one wicket in his 10 overs. However, KRL reached home in the 38th over of the innings with the spectacular unbeaten innings of Saeed Anwer of 154 runs in just 129 balls. Azhar Ali contributed with 67 runs. Farhan Ayub and Asad Iqbal got each one wicket for Pakistan Custom. SCOREBOARD Customs ( Jibran Khan b Ajmal 86 Raheel Ameer c Jan b Akhtar 2 Rameez Aziz run out 3 Rameez Raja c Wasim b Nauman 55 Hasan Sajjad lbw b Junaid 24 Zeeshan Ali c Ali b Ajmal 30 Yasir Hussain c sub b Anwar 13 Asad Iqbal c Jan b Ajmal 8 Shahpur Agha not out 1 Farhan Ayub c and b Anwar 0 Maroof Aziz b Anwar 0 EXTRAS (1 b, 4 lb, 18 w) 23 TOTAL (all out, 49.4 overs) 245 Fall of wickets: 1-10, 2-19, 3-104, 4-152, 5-205, 6-216, 7-243, 8-243, 9-244, 10-245 BOWLING: Shoaib Akhtar 10-0-37-1 Ali Khan 8-0-38-0 Junaid Khan 9-0-58-1 Nauman Ali 10-0-37-1 Saeed Ajmal 10-0-55-3 Saeed Anwar 2.4-0-15-3 KRL Mohammad Wasim c Iqbal b Ayub 5 Saeed Anwar not out 154 Azhar Ali c Ayub b Iqbal 67 Rizwan Ahmed not out 3 EXTRAS (1 b, 3 lb, 13 w) 17 TOTAL (2 wickets, 37.3 overs) 246 Fall of wickets: 1-8, 2-204 BOWLING: Farhan Ayub 7-0-56-1 Maroof Aziz 8-1-47-0 Asad Iqbal 10-0-53-1 Shahpur Agha 7-0-36-0 Yasir Hussain 5.3-0-50-0 Toss: Pakistan Customs won the toss and decided to bat Result: KRL won by 8 wickets Points: KRL 4; Customs 0 Umpires: Ahmed Shahab and Iqbal Butt Referee Aziz-ur-Rehman.

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