Naved stars in all-round display

Naved-ul-Hasan took three wickets and top scored with 64 to take the Lahore Badshahs to the brink of a semi-final berth after they beat the Dhaka Warriors comfortably by five wickets on Friday. Lahore have an excellent net run-rate, the second-highest among all teams, but will be keen to round off their league-phase with a win against the Chennai Superstars on Sunday, to leave it to victories and not run-rates to determine their place in the final four.
Dhaka will be disappointed, as they squandered a good start to eventually get to 145 for 7, which the Lahore batsmen chased down with little difficulty.

Lahore lost Imran Farhat in the second over, but recovered well as Naved, who came in at No. 3, added 53 for the second wicket with Imran Nazir, and as many runs for the fourth with Inzamam, on his way to a quickfire 64 that included six sixes, three off an over from Mohammad Rafique, the left-arm spinner. The only time when Dhaka may have sensed a genuine opportunity was following the dismissal of Mohammad Yousuf for 12, as Lahore slid to 68 for 3 in the sixth over.