PCB Whites beat Greens to win practice match in Punjab
Pakistan Times Sports Desk

LAHORE: PCB Whites won the practice match against PCB Greens by six wickets on the thrid and last day here at the Gaddafi Stadium on Sunday.

Given 45 overs each to complete the match, PCB Whites completed the given target of 167 runs by scoring 168 for four in 36.4 overs.

Resuming their overnight innings at 30 for two in 8.5 overs, PCB Greens piled up 157 runs and having nine runs first innings lead they gave an easy target to Whites, which they surpassed with little scare.

Greens overnight batsmen Yasir Hameed and Salman Butt made 38 and 25 runs respectively. Greens got little support from Asim Kamal (21) while rest of their batsmen failed to come up to the expectation.

Irshad and Najaf Shah who took one wicket each on day two, remained wicket-less. Riaz Afridi and Arshad Khan shared two wickets each for seven and 25 runs respectively while Yasir Ali had one.

Chasing the target, Whites has early scare when they lost their openers for 45 but not before healthy 31 from Taufeeq Umer.

Faisal Athar before falling leg before wicket to Muhammad Khalil made 21. But the main match-winning innings was played by Misbah-ul-Haq and Faisal Iqbal, who scored unbeaten century in the first innings. Misbah (46) and Faisal (35) also shared 66 runs for the unbeaten fifth wicket.

Umer Gul gaining form after fitness took two more wickets as he had three in the first innings while one each went Shahid Nazir and Muhammad Khalil way.

The match was umpired by Saddique Khan and Zameer Haider while Azhar Hussain was the scorer.●