Asim Kamal hits 160

Published January 28, 2002

KARACHI, Jan 27: Dusky left-hander Asim Kamal struck his third first-class century of the season Sunday when he took his overnight score from 75 to 160 as Karachi Blues amassed 458 against Sargodha in the Quaid Trophy Grade-I match at Sports Stadium.

According to details available from Sargodha, Asim batted for 555 minutes and faced 348 deliveries during his marathon stay. Stand-in skipper Atiq-uz-Zaman (53 overnight) was out for 187-ball 86 after putting on 143 for the fifth-wicket with Asim, who also added 143 for the sixth-wicket with Riaz Shaikh (74 off 144 balls).

Scoreboard

KARACHI BLUES (1st Innings, overnight 237-4):

Agha Sabir run out 1

Maisam Hasnain b Hafeez 13

Naumanullah b Ahmed Hayat 28

Asim Kamal run out 160

Farhan Adil b Ashraf 48

Atiq-uz-Zaman lbw b Sarfraz 86

Riaz Shaikh c Misbah b Ashraf 74

Tariq Haroon c Misbah b Ashraf 2

Tahir Khan c and b Sarfraz 5

Rajesh Ramesh not out 6

Raheel Sayani b Sarfraz 5

EXTRAS (B-8, LB-8, NB-14) 30

TOTAL (all out, 167.4 overs) 458

FALL OF WKTS: 1-6, 2-48, 3-58, 4-137, 5-280, 6-423, 7-425, 8-442, 9-448.

BOWLING: Ahmed Hayat 31-5-82-1; Mohammad Sarfraz 37.4-12-82-3; Tariq Munir 32-3-102-0; Ashraf Bashir 33-7-93-3; Mohammad Hafeez 21-4-46-1; Mohammad Nawaz 9-2-17-0; Mohammad Aziz 2-0-6-0; Tanvir Hussain 2-0-14-0.

SARGODHA (1st Innings):

Shahid Mahmood not out 0

Mohammad Hafeez not out 0

EXTRAS (W-5) 5

TOTAL (for no wkt, 1 over) 5

BOWLING (to-date): Rajesh Ramesh 1-0-5-0.

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