Discarded Shadab sparkles again

Shadab Kabir continued his magnificent form when he propelled Pakistan Customs to a comfortable eight-wicket victory over Lahore Whites in the National One-day Cricket Championship at National Stadium Tuesday.

The left-handed Test reject stroked an unbeaten 87 as Customs reached a modest victory target of 177 in 40.3 overs with eight wickets to spare.

Shadab, who had scores of 83 not out and 52 not out in the previous games, struck 11 boundaries in his 134-ball innings. He featured in a 66-run second wicket stand with Azhar Shafiq (26) and later put on 75 for the unfinished third wicket with skipper Aamir Bashir (37 not out).

Earlier, Lahore Whites struggled to 176 for nine from their 50 overs - thanks to a 114-ball 60 by Tariq Rasheed who struck three boundaries. It was struggle all through Lahore innings who scored 47 from the first 15 overs and then collected 51 in the last 10 overs.

For Customs, spinning duo of Tabish Nawab and Salman Fazal equally shared six wickets between them. Off-spinner Tabish scooped up three for 45 while left-armer Salman bagged three for 27.