RAWALPINDI – Lake City Panthers thrashed Engro Dolphins by six wickets in Bahria Town Champions T20 Cup match at Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium on Monday afternoon.
The win helped Panthers get to six points in as many games with three wins and as many defeats while Dolphins sunk to fifth defeat in as many matches.
Mohammad Wasim impeded Dolphins’s sailing with figures of 3-28 in his four incisive overs and was ably supported by spinner Arafat Minhas (2-11) and Amad Butt (2-12) to keep their opponents down to 106-9 in 20 overs.
Losing opener Sahibzada Farhan off the third ball of the innings to Ali Raza jolted the Dolphins from which they could never recover. Mirza Tahir Baig hit a rapid 13-ball 19 but Wasim dislodged him in the sixth over.
Mohammad Huraira fell for a three-ball duck and Umar Amin managed just four. It was left to skipper Faheem Ashraf (25), Muhammad Akhlaq (19) and Qasim Akram (14) to get the team past the 100-run mark.
Dolphins’s pacer Sameen Gul dismissed Umar Siddiq for five and Shadab Khan without scoring to leave the chase in tatters at 2-9. It became 3-14 when Ihsanullah accounted for Mubasir Khan, who returned for a four-ball duck.
But player of the match Abdul Waheed Bangalzai and Danish Aziz set the chase back on track with a solid 82-run stand for the fourth wicket. Bangalzai’s 38-ball 51 had two sixes and six boundaries. Danish hit a 34-ball 38 not out with three boundaries and a six as the chase was completed in 15 overs.
