PIA won the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy Division-I title beating ZTBL in the final on the fourth day of the five day match at the National Stadium Karachi. Put into bat, ZTBL made 337 in their first innings but later crashed to 77 in which PIA bowlers Najaf Shah, Anwar Ali and Ali Imran Pasha played a pivotal role.
PIA in reply to the ZTBL’s first innings made 300 runs and then achieved the target of 110 runs losing just one wicket.
PIA with this win pocketed Rs .10,00,000 while the runners-up trophy and money of Rs 500,000 went to ZTBL.
Anwar Ali of PIA was named the Man of the final match and was given Rs 50,000 while the Best Batsman was Afaq Rahim of Islamabad, bowler was Ali Imran Pasha of PIA, fielder Shahid Yousuf of ZTBL and wicketkeeper Zulqarnain of ZTBL and all of them were given Rs 50,000 each.
Scores: ZTBL 337 in 120.3 overs (Sharjeel Khan 24, Imran Nazir 0, Yasir Hameed 80, 93 balls, 15 x4s, 1 x6s, Shahid Yousuf 13, Haris Sohail 112, 282 balls, 16 x4s, Zohaib Khan 21, Sohail Tanvir 6, Zulqarnain 36, 188 balls, 5 x4s, Junaid Zia 17, Iftikhar Anjum 11, Najaf Shah 1-45, Anwar Ali 4-55, Kamran Sajid 2-56, Akhtar Waheed 2-113) and 70 in 27.2 overs (Sharjeel Khan 8, Imran Nazir 8, Yasir Hameed 19, Shahid Yousuf 0, Haris Sohail 19, Zulqarnain 0, Sohail Tanvir 0, Najaf Shah 3-19, Anwar Ali 4-31, Ali Imran Pasha 3-16) v PIA 300 in 106.1 overs (Agha Sabir 0, Kamran Sajid 13, Shaharyar Ghani 29, Faisal Iqbal 13, Fahad Iqbal 61,119 balls, 10 x4s, Shoaib Khan 61, 157 balls, 7 x4s, Sarfraz Ahmed 70, 91 balls, 8 x4s, Sohail Tanvir 3-82, Rehan Riaz 3-44, Iftikhar Anjum 4-78) and 110-1 in 21.2 overs (Agha Sabir 40*, 65 balls, 5 x4s, Kamran Sajid 34, 29 balls, 8 x4s, Shaharyar Ghani 36*, 34 balls, 7 x4s)
Result: PIA won by nine wickets.
Overnight Score: ZTBL 70-9 in 27 overs
Toss: PIA
Umpires: Zameer Haider and Ahsan Raza
TV Umpire: Shozab Raza
Referee: Khateeb Rizwan.
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