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          17/03Result
          Group A, ABN-AMRO Patron's Cup at Lahore, Mar 17 2007
          Habib Bank won by 2 wkts (3b rem)
          17/03Result
          Group A, ABN-AMRO Patron's Cup at Lahore, Mar 17 2007
          Habib Bank won by 2 wkts (3b rem)

          Sui Northern Gas Pipelines register eight-wicket win

          • Cricinfo staff
          Mar 19, 2007, 07:00 AM

          Group A

          With half-centuries from Imran Farhat and Rafatullah Mohamand Habib Bank Limited (HB) chased down Zarai Taraqiati Limited Bank's (ZTB) 267 with two wickets to spare at the Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore.

          Despite Aamer Bashir's 81 and Adnan Raza's unbeaten 55, ZTB could not set a high enough target. Abdur Rehman, the Pakistan left-arm spinner, took 3 for 54 and Shahid Nazir, Pakistan's right-arm fast bowler, took 2 for 25. HB's top order set up the platform for the chase as Farhat and Mohmand added 47 together and then Mohamand added another 79 with Hasan Raza. But Mohammad Khalil and Naved Ashraf triggered a lower-order collapse and four wickets fell for 39 runs. Nazir and Sajid Shah held their nerve and scored the required runs with three balls to sprae. Khalil and Ashraf got three wickets each for the game.

          National Bank of Pakistan (NBP) bowled out Pakistan Customs for 144 and reached the target for the loss of two wickets at the Sheikhupura Stadium.

          Tahir Mughal and Wasim Khan, NBP's opening bowlers, sent back the first four Customs' batsmen for 60 runs. Then Mansoor Amjad, a legbreak bowler, took three middle-order wickets for three runs though Customs' managed to last out 47 overs for their paltry score. Usman Arshad top-scored for Customs' with 35.

          Salman Butt and Qaiser Abbas set the tone of the chase adding 93 for the first wicket. Abbas was unbeaten on 72 when NBP reached the target in 34.4 overs

          Group B

          Sui Northern Gas Pipelines Limited (SNGP) had an easy chase on their hands as Water and Power Development Authority (WAPDA) crumbled to 103 at the Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium.

          Only two WAPDA batsmen - Masood Asim (30) and Aamer Sajjad (37) got to double figures. Three batsmen failed to score at all. Imran Ali and Tauqeer Hussain, SNGP's right-arm fast-medium bowlers, took three wickets each.

          Yasir Arafat was not out on 50 when SNGP reached the target in 19 overs for the loss of two wickets.

          An 108-run partnership between Shehzad Malik and Azhar Ali got Khan Research Laboratories (KRL) a five-wicket win over Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) in Rawalpindi.

          PIA made 277 in their 50 overs with half-centuries from Agha Sabir and Faisal Iqbal. KRL had a setback early in their innings with two wickets falling at 43. But the Malik-Ali partnership was preceded by two fifty-run partnerships between Saeed Anwar jr (52) and Bilal Asad (68) and Asad and Malik(83*). Fazl-e-Akbar and Bazid Khan were the only two out of seven PIA bowlers who got wickets.