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Match Date : Feb 18, 1996
Venue : Arbab Niaz Stadium, Peshawar
Toss : UAE won the toss and elected to bat
Umpires : BC Cooray and VK Ramaswamy
Match Result : England won by 8 wickets
Man of the Match : Neil Smith
UAE (50 Overs Maximum)
Azhar Saeed lbw b Phil DeFreitas 9 (36) 1 ‘4s’
Ganesh Mylvaganam c Fairbrother b Phil DeFreitas 0 (6)
Mazhar Hussain b Neil Smith 33 (59) 6 ‘4s’
Vijay Mehra c Russell b Neil Smith 1 (34)
Mohammad Aslam b Darren Gough 23 (47) 1 ‘4s’
Arshad Laeeq b Neil Smith 0 (6)
Saleem Raza b Dominic Cork 10 (31)
Johanne Samarasekera run out 29 (39) 3 ‘4s’
Sultan Zarawani (C) b Dominic Cork 2 (8)
Shaukat Dukanwala lbw b Richard Illingworth 15 (21) 1 ‘4s’
Imtiaz Abbasi (WK) not out 1 (5)
Extras : 13 (Wides: 4 No Balls: 1 Byes: 4 Leg Byes: 4)
Total : 136 all out (Overs: 48.3)
Fall of Wickets : 1-3 (Mylvaganam), 2-32 (Azhar Saeed), 3-48 (Mehra), 4-49 (Mazhar Hussain), 5-49 (Arshad Laeeq), 6-80 (Mohammad Aslam), 7-88 (Saleem Raza), 8-100 (Sultan Zarawani), 9-135 (Dukanwala), 10-136 (Johanne Samarasekera)
England Bowling
Dominic Cork 10-1-33-2 (2wd)
Phil DeFreitas 9.3-3-16-2 (2wd 1nb)
Darren Gough 8-3-23-1
Craig White 1.3-1-2
Neil Smith 9.3-2-29-3
Richard Illingworth 10-2-25-1
England (Target : 137 from 50 Overs)
Alec Stewart c Mylvaganam b Arshad Laeeq 23 (52) 3 ‘4s’
Neil Smith retired ill 27 (31) 4 ‘4s’
Graham Thorpe not out 44 (66) 5 ‘4s’
Michael Atherton (C) b Azhar Saeed 20 (40) 1 ‘4s’
Neil Fairbrother not out 12 (29) 1 ‘4s’
Jack Russell (WK)
Craig White
Dominic Cork
Darren Gough
Phil DeFreitas
Richard Illingworth
Extras : 14 (Wides: 2 No Balls: 6 Byes: 4 Leg Byes: 2)
Total : 228/9 (Overs: 50.0)
Fall of Wickets : 1-52 (Stewart), 2-109 (Atherton)
UAE Bowling
Johanne Samarasekera 7-1-35-0 (1wd 3nb)
Arshad Laeeq 7-0-25-1 (5nb)
Saleem Raza 5-1-20-0
Azhar Saeed 10-1-26-1
Sultan Zarawani 6-0-28-0