KARACHI, Jan 28: Karachi Blues were on course for a first innings Monday when they restricted Sargodha to 281 for seven on the third day of the Quaid Trophy Grade-I match at Sports Stadium.

According to details available from Sargodha, Mohammad Nawaz was batting on 73 after Shahid Mahmood (37) and Mohammad Hafeez (50) shared an opening stand of 103.

Karachi Blues made 458 with Asim Kamal scoring a career-best 160.

Scoreboard

KARACHI BLUES (1st Innings) 458 (Asim Kamal 160, Atiq-uz-Zaman 86, Riaz Shaikh 74).

SARGODHA (1st Innings, overnight 5-0):

Shahid Mahmood b Riaz 37

Mohammad Hafeez st Atiq b Riaz 50

Mohammad Nawaz not out 73

Misbah-ul-Haq b Ramesh 37

Tanvir Hussain lbw b Ramesh 1

Mohammad Aziz c Atiq b Ramesh 28

Sohail Maqbool c Nauman b Riaz 1

Ashraf Bashir not out 7

EXTRAS (B-8, LB-19, W-5, NB-15) 47

TOTAL (for six wkts, 84 overs) 281

FALL OF WKTS: 1-103, 2-116, 3-167, 4-179, 5-251, 6-252.

BOWLING (to-date): Rajesh Ramesh 19-2-49-3; Raheel Sayani 12-0-54-0; Tariq Haroon 1-1-0-0; Riaz Shaikh 31-8-91-3; Tahir Khan 21-5-60-0.