Imran Farhat helps HBL thrash Islamabad Leopards
Imran Farhat struck his second score of 150 plus in the 2010-11 Faysal Bank National One Day Tournament Division One, as http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Habib-Bank-Limited-c788 (HBL) defeated Islamabad Leopards by a huge margin of 187 runs in a Group A fixture.
At the Diamond Club Ground in Islamabad, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Rauf-c84151 Akbar won the toss for the home team and opted to bowl first. Test opener Imran Farhat took the home team’s bowling apart from the word go and helped his team pile up a huge score of 351 runs for the loss of
only four wickets.
Imran Farhat missed out on a double century as he was run out after scoring 164 runs off only 138 balls with the help of 16 fours and four massive sixes. He along with young left handed opener http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Shan-Masood-c89637 scored 128 runs for the first wicket partnership.
Test cricketer Saleem Elahi remained unbeaten on 85 runs, which he managed off 96 balls with the help of seven boundaries.
None of the Islamabad Leopards bowlers were able to make any impression on Imran Farhat and company. However Shehzad Azam, Shah Laiq and http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Zeeshan-Mushtaq-c98588 claimed a scalp each.
Chasing a huge target to upset HBL, Islamabad Leopards were never in the game and lost wickets at regular intervals. As a result the home team was bowled out for a mere 164 runs in the last over of the match.
Kamran Hussain showed some resistance as he scored 44 runs off 89 balls in which he struck 3 fours and six. Kashif Majeed was the only other notable contributor. He scored 34 runs off 49 balls which included a couple of boundaries. However, both these efforts
were meaningless, as the home team required a much higher run rate.
Sarmad Anwar and Mohammad http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Aslam-Qureshi-c46553 picked up three wickets each for HBL, while Shan Masood showed his skills with the ball as well and claimed a couple of scalps. Test fast bowler Shahid Nazir and centurion Imran Farhat also picked up a wicket each.
Imran Farhat was named as the Player of the Match for his breath-taking knock and proved to the selectors once again that he still has a lot of cricket left in him.
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