The ICL Pakistan XI outplayed the ICL World XI by nine wickets in their first match of the ICL triangular tournament here at the Lal Bahadur Shastri Stadium on Thursday.
Set a rather easy target of 131, the Pakistani openers gave a sound start of 119 runs off 16.1 overs.
Imran Nazir departed after scoring a magnificent 69 off 62 balls with nine fours and one six, his team needed just 12 runs in 23 balls which Abdul Razzaq and Imran Farhat got in just eight balls.
Abdul Razzaq remained unbeaten at 55 which he made off 42 deliveries with three sixes and the same number of fours.
Imran Nazir was declared the man-of-the-match.
Earlier, the ICL World XI won the toss and elected to bat but could not make any big score and were restricted by Inzamam-ul-Haq’s men to 130 runs for nine wickets in the allotted 20 overs.
Their main scorers were Lou Vincent(26), Russell Arnold (23 not out) and Ian Harvey (21).
From Pakistan XI, off-spinner Arshad Khan claimed three wickets for 24 runs while pace bowlers Shahid Nazir, Naved-ul-Hasan and Abdul Razzaq took two wickets each.
Set a rather easy target of 131, the Pakistani openers gave a sound start of 119 runs off 16.1 overs.
Imran Nazir departed after scoring a magnificent 69 off 62 balls with nine fours and one six, his team needed just 12 runs in 23 balls which Abdul Razzaq and Imran Farhat got in just eight balls.
Abdul Razzaq remained unbeaten at 55 which he made off 42 deliveries with three sixes and the same number of fours.
Imran Nazir was declared the man-of-the-match.
Earlier, the ICL World XI won the toss and elected to bat but could not make any big score and were restricted by Inzamam-ul-Haq’s men to 130 runs for nine wickets in the allotted 20 overs.
Their main scorers were Lou Vincent(26), Russell Arnold (23 not out) and Ian Harvey (21).
From Pakistan XI, off-spinner Arshad Khan claimed three wickets for 24 runs while pace bowlers Shahid Nazir, Naved-ul-Hasan and Abdul Razzaq took two wickets each.
No comments:
Post a Comment