Rizwan hits 100 out of 143

Published January 15, 2002

KARACHI, Jan 14: A remarkable unbeaten century by Rizwan Malik was the highlight of the Quaid Trophy tie between Bahawalpur and Gujranwala at Bahawalpur Stadium Monday.

According to details available here, Gujranwala were bowled out for 143 with No 3 batsman Rizwan Malik making an undefeated 100 off 194 deliveries in a stay of 184 minutes.

Bahawalpur, in reply, were tottering at 39 for seven with slow left-armer Ghulam Murtaza doing most of the damage by picking up four wickets for six runs in 6.4 overs.

Veteran spinners Murtaza Hussain and Mohammad Zahid shared eight wickets between in Gujranwala’s first innings.

Scoreboard

GUJRANWALA (1st Innings):

Faisal Butt c Usman b Imran 0

Mudassar Mushtaq st Inam b Zahid 11

Rizwan Malik not out 100

Imran Abbas c Zahid b Murtaza 8

Majid Saeed c Rashid b Zahid 5

Tariq Javed c Imranullah b Zahid 10

Abdul Rehman lbw b Murtaza 0

Hafiz Khalid b Murtaza 0

Sarfraz Ahmed b Murtaza 0

Mubashir Nazir c Zahid b Murtaza 5

Ghulam Murtaza c Murtaza b Imr’ullah 1

EXTRAS (LB-1, NB-1) 2

TOTAL (all out, 61.3 overs) 143

FALL OF WKTS: 1-0, 2-44, 3-76, 4-88, 5-104, 6-105, 7-109, 8-109, 9-117.

BOWLING: Imran Adil 8-4-20-1; Bilal Khilji 5-3-7-0; Imranullah Aslam 2.3-0-17-1; Mohammad Zahid 23-12-27-3; Murtaza Hussain 23-2-71-5.

BAHAWALPUR (1st Innings):

Hammad Tariq c Khalid b Mubashir 6

Usman Tariq lbw b A. Rehman 4

Asif Iqbal b Murtaza 20

Bilal Khilji c Khalid b Mubashir 0

Mohammad Rashid c Faisal b Murtaza 1

Hasnain Raza lbw b Murtaza 0

Inam-ul-Haq c A. Rehman b Murtaza 0

Murtaza Hussain not out 2

EXTRAS (B-2, NB-4) 6

TOTAL (for seven wkts, 30.4 overs) 39

FALL OF WKTS: 1-12, 2-12, 3-12, 4-27, 5-27, 6-27, 7-39.

TO BAT: Mohammad Zahid, Imranullah Aslam, Imran Adil.

BOWLING (to-date): Mubashir Nazir 9-3-10-2; Sarfraz Ahmed 3-2-1-0; Abdul Rehman 12-5-20-1; Ghulam Murtaza 6.4-4-6-4.

UMPIRES: Shakeel Khan and Riazuddin.

MATCH REFEREE: Taslim Arif.

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