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| October 25, 2001 | Thursday | Shaba'an 7, 1422 |
Abid Ali takes nine wickets
KARACHI, Oct 24: Off-spinner Abid Ali took nine wickets in an innings for Nawabshah on the opening day of their two-day Quaid-e-Azam Trophy Grade-II match against Sukkur at Nawabshah Wednesday, according to information reaching here.
Sent to bat first Nawabshah were dismissed after scoring healthy 262 in 65 overs. Opener Hanif-ur-Rehman blasted 46 with eight fours and a six.
Abid returned with best innings figures in the on-going event as he took nine wickets for 28 runs in 14.2 overs to spin out Sukkur for 104 in their first innings in 36.2 overs.
Summarised scores:
NAWABSHAH 262 (Hanif-ur-Rehman 46, Abdul Ghaffar 42, Farooq Ahmed 37, Nasir Khanzada 34, Javed Iqbal 3-63, Shakeel Ahmed 3-66);
SUKKUR 104 (Kamal Din 50 Shafiq Ahmed 28, Abid Ali 9-28).
In Hyderabad, fine bowling by Abdul Raheem and Abdul Sattar raised prospects of Larkana’s victory against Shikarpur at Niaz Stadium .
At the end of first day’s play Shikarpur was struggling at 73 for seven and needed 34 more runs to avoid innings defeat against Larkana whho made 206 in the first innings.
Summarised scores:
LARKANA 206 (Mujahid Solangi 59, Muhammed Siddique 51, Khadim Memon 44 not out; Nasarullah 5-27, Majid Raja 3-60, Riaz Ali 2-20);
SHIKARPUR 73 for seven (Muhammed Ramzan 24, Akhlaq Ahmed 24; Abdul Raheem 3-12, Abdul Sattar 3-19).
In Peshawar, Nowshera took a vital first innings lead against Mardan at Arbab Niaz Cricket Stadium.
Nowshera scored 155 and restricted Mardan to 88, thus getting a 67-run lead over the first innings.
Opener Naveed Khan hit a superb knock of 82.
Nouroz Amin, the left-arm leg-spinner, claimed five for 35.
In Mardan’s innings, Adnan Raees top-scored with 26.
Imran Durrani, a right-arm medium fast bowler, bowled with venom to claim six for 37.—APP
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