LAHORE Lions sneaked away with a two runs win over Quetta Bears. The win came from the jaws of defeats. Had not Waqas ad Wahab Riaz not truck at the right time they defeat was sure. Batting first, Lions banking on the 99 runs innings from salman Butt produced 187 with Nasir Jamshed 22 being another major scorer. Salman scoring 99 runs passed his previous highest of 73 and also crossed 500 runs in T20 when he reached 41. But the innings of class was of Butt who dashed in with 10 boundaries and three mighty sixes. He played with a strike rate of 147.76. Naseer Khan with two wicket was lethal. In reply, Bears were going great till Sohail Khan (85) was playing in which he produced small partnerships with Samiullah Agha (31) and Arun Lal (29). But when he was taken by Wahad Raiz the other players failed to maintain the run rate which was at one time above 10 per over and lost in the process making 185 runs. Ahmed Shehzad, Samiullah Agha, Umar Akmal and Nazar Hussain made T20 debut. SCOREBOARD Lahore Lions innings R B M 4s 6s SR Salman Butt not out 99 67 88 10 3 147.76 Nasir Jamshed c Jalat b Arun 22 21 37 1 1 104.76 Ahmed Shehzad c Shoaib b Naseer 14 14 23 - - 100.00 Mohammad Yousuf c Nazar b Naseer 5 8 10 - - 62.50 Umar Akmal c Faisal b Jalat 16 11 12 2 - 145.45 Kamran Akmal not out 7 3 2 1 - 233.33 Did not bat: Waqas Ahmed, Sohail Ahmed, Junaid Zia, Imran Ali, Wahab Riaz EXTRAS: (2 b, 8 nb, 8 w, 6 pen) 24 TOTAL: (4 wickets, 20 overs) 187 Fall of wickets: 1-77, 2-117, 3-140, 4-171 BOWLING Faisal Irfan 2-0-12-0; Nazar Hussain 3-0-35-0; Gauhar Faiz 3-0-34-0; Arun Lal 4-0-36-1; Naseer Khan 4-0-22-2; Jalat Khan 4-0-40-1 Quetta Bears innings R B M 4s 6s SR Shoaib Khan c Zia b Riaz 85 54 82 14 - 157.41 Samiullah Agha lbw b Waqas 31 15 19 3 2 206.67 Nasim Khan c sub b Waqas 10 10 10 1 - 100.00 Sabir Hussain c Shehzad b Umar 13 15 19 1 - 86.67 Arun Lal not out 29 25 34 2 1 116.00 Jalat Khan not out 6 2 2 1 - 300.00 Did not bat: Faisal Irfan, Naseer Khan, Sanaullah Khan, Nazar Hussain, Gauhar Faiz. EXTRAS (4 lb, 2 nb, 5 w) 11 TOTAL (4 wickets, 20 overs) 185 Fall of wickets: 1-50, 2-74, 3-113, 4-177 BOWLING Wahab Riaz 4-0-43-1; Junaid Zia 1-0-17-0; Imran Ali 4-0-36-0; Waqas Ahmed 3-0-28-2; Sohail Ahmed 4-0-21-0; Umar Akmal 4-0-36-1 Toss: Lahore Lions won the toss and decided to bat Result: Lahore Lions won by 2 runs Points: Lahore Lions 2; Quetta Bears 0 Umpires: Islam Khan, Saleem Badar Third umpire: Ahmed Shahab Referee: Abdus Sami