PIA in tatters

Published October 23, 2001

KARACHI, Oct 22: PIA endured a miserable second day of their Patron’s Trophy Grade-I fixture against Wapda at Iqbal Stadium, Faisalabad Monday.

Despite a solid opening stand of 90, PIA crashed to 168 for seven in their first innings after Wapda made 331, says a message here.

It was a dismal batting performance from a team that boasts of reliable and experienced batsmen.

PIA’s first target Tuesday will be to garner 14 runs to avoid the follow-on with Mahmood Hamid (5) the only specialist batsman left.

Sohail Jaffer (44 off 64 balls) and Ghulam Ali (67 off 169 balls) had given PIA a head start but once the partnership was broken the middle-order caved in without a fight against pace duo of Raees Amjad and Faisal Irfan, who shared five wickets them between.

Raees disposed off Faisal Iqbal (15), skipper Moin Khan (0) and Nadeem Afzal (5) while Faisal removed Sohail Jaffar and Asif Mujtaba (5).

Scoreboard

WAPDA (1st Innings, overnight 281-7):

Adil Nisar b Nadeem 27

Maqsood Akbar c Moin b Ali Gohar 11

Kashif Rasheed c Moin b Ali Gohar 16

Rizwan Malik c Moin b Ghulam Ali 82

Tariq Aziz c Sohail b Fazle 2

Shoaib Khan not out 79

Zahid Umer c Moin b Fazle 3

Kashif Raza b Fazle 42

Kamran Hussain c Ghulam Ali b Fazle 3

Raees Amjad b Nadeem 1

Faisal Irfan c Moin b Ghulam Ali 19

EXTRAS (B-4, LB-10, W-2, NB-30) 46

TOTAL (all out, 105.4 overs) 331

FALL OF WKTS: 1-32, 2-60, 3-79, 4-113, 5-194, 6-197, 7-274, 8-282, 9-283.

BOWLING: Fazle Akbar 33-12-84-4; Nadeem Afzal 21-7-67-2; Ali Gohar 24-0-96-2; Mohammad Zahid Jr 8-1-38-0; Ghulam Ali 19.4-4-32-2.

PIA (1st Innings):

Sohail Jaffar c Shoaib b Faisal 44

Ghulam Ali lbw b Kashif Raza 67

Yasir Hameed c Shoaib b Kamran 0

Asif Mujtaba c Zahid b Faisal 5

Faisal Iqbal c K. Rasheed b Raees 15

Mahmood Hamid not out 5

Moin Khan c Tariq b Raees 0

Nadeem Afzal c Shoaib b Raees 5

Ali Gohar not out 0

EXTRAS (B-2, LB-15, NB-10) 27

TOTAL (for seven wkts, 54 overs) 168

FALL OF WKTS: 1-90, 2-99, 3-124, 4-156, 5-158, 6-162, 7-168.

TO BAT: Fazle Akbar, Mohammad Zahid Jr.

BOWLING (to-date): Kashif Raza 12-4-34-1; Kamran Hussain 19-9-40-1; Faisal Irfan 12-3-28-2; Raees Amjad 13-1-49-3.

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