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KARACHI, Nov 3: Pacemen Fazle Akbar and Umer Gul shared nine wickets between them as PIA put a stranglehold over ADBP in a Patron’s Trophy clash at the National Stadium Saturday.
Teenager Umer scooped up five for 46 in his debut match while Test reject Fazle captured four wickets for 56 runs as the bankers were bowled out for 135 after having resumed the second day’s play at 34 for four.
PIA, who were skittled out for 182 the other day, ensured that their openers efforts were not wasted when they finished the day at 185 for two with opener Ghulam Ali leading the way with an unbeaten 87.
Ghulam Ali’s 151-ball knock is punctuated with 13 exquisite boundaries. With him was skipper Asif Mujtaba batting on a 90-ball 42 that included nine hits to the fence. The two have added 114 runs for the unfinished third wicket.
PIA now enjoy a 232 runs lead with eight wickets standing. Barring a middle-order collapse, the match appears to be in PIA’s bag.
PIA (1st innings) 182 (Yasir Arafat 85, Tahir Mughal 4-52, Inam-ul-Haq 3-10)
ADBP (1st innings) (overnight 34-4)
Inam-ul-Haq c Zeeshan b Umer Gul 16
Majid Jahangir b Umer Gul 6
Atif Rauf c Yasir b Umer Gul 1
Zahoor Elahi c Ghulam b Fazle Akbar 44
Iftikhar Anjum c Faisal b Umer Gul 2
Faisal Naved c Zeeshan b Umer Gul 26
Ghaffar Kazmi c Fazle b Aizaz Cheema 9
Manzoor Elahi c Umer b Fazle Akbar 18
Nadeem Husain c Asif b Fazle Akbar 2
Tahir Mughal b Fazle Akbar 0
Faisal Afridi not out 5
EXTRA (lb2 nb4) 6
TOTAL (all out, 36.1 overs) 135
FALL OF WKTS: 1-17 2-23 3-24 4-26 5-73 6-90 7-124 8-128 9-128
BOWLING: Fazle Akbar 13.1-3-56-4 (nb3); Umer Gul 13-1-46-5 (nb1); Aizaz Cheema 6-3-19-1; Ali Gohar 4-2-12-0
PIA (2nd innings)
Ghulam Ali not out 87
Shoaib Mohammad c Nadeem b Iftikhar 19
Yasir Hameed c Nadeem b Tahir 21
Asif Mujtaba not out 42
EXTRAS (b5 lb4 nb7) 16
TOTAL (for two wickets) 185
FALL OF WKTS: 1-40 2-71
BOWLING: Faisal Afridi 14-1-52-0 (nb4); Iftikhar Anjum 15-1-61-1 (nb4); Tahir Mughal 11-5-16-1; Faisal Naved 6-1-30-0 (nb1); Inam-ul-Haq 6-1-17-0.
