January 25, 2003	Saturday	Ziqa’ad 21, 1423

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KARACHI, Jan 24: Rawalpindi coasted to an easy seven-wicket victory over Multan to reach last eight of the Quaid-i-Azam Trophy at Multan Cricket Stadium on Friday.

According to details available, Needing 108, Rawalpindi lost three wickets before reaching their target with Pervez Aziz making an unbeaten 73 off 71 balls. He slammed 11 boundaries.

Earlier, pacer Mohammad Fayyaz took another wicket to finish with six for 65 and a match haul of 11 for 88 as Multan were bowled out for 161 in their second innings.

Faisalabad also made it to the quarterfinals with an emphatic innings and seven-run drubbing of Sialkot at Bahawalpur Stadium in Bahawalpur.

Leg-spinner Farooq Iqbal grabbed a match bag of 10 for 86, including six for 67 in Sialkot’s second innings of 263. Opener Shaiman Butt scored 83.

Meanwhile, Sargodha were heading for victory against Lahore Whites at Arbab Niaz Stadium in Peshawar.

Sargodha gained a first innings lead of 146 and then reduced Lahore Whites to 111 for four in their second innings.

Sargodha’s batting heroes were Usman Arshad, who ended with an undefeated 92, and Samiullah Niazi (2(). Their added 102 for the last wicket partnership. Khurram Chauhan claimed seven for 70 in 22 overs.

Scoreboard

MULTAN (1st Innings) 172 (Zeeshan Khan 57; Mohammad Fayyaz 5-23).

RAWALPINDI : (1st Innings) 226 (Shiraz Khalid 66, Nadeem Abbasi 62; Azhar Abbas 4-68).

MULTAN (2nd Innings, overnight 144-6):

Zeeshan Khan b Fayyaz 10

Shahid Naseem lbw b Akram 67

Kamran Ali lbw b Fayyaz 38

Shahid Hameed c Nadeem b Fayyaz 0

M. Ali Rafi c Babar b Fayyaz 0

M. Ali Niazi lbw b Fayyaz 0

Mohammad Shafiq c Shiraz b Saad 6

Farhan Abbasi c Nadeem b Fayyaz 9

Azhar Abbas c Nadeem b Akram 2

Khurram Shahzad b Akram 6

Naeem Iqbal not out 1

EXTRAS (LB-2, NB-20) 22

TOTAL (all out, 48.5 overs) 161

FALL OF WKTS: 1-18, 2-104, 3-106, 4-110, 5-112, 6-121, 7-145, 8-151, 9-160.

BOWLING: Mohammad Akram 14.5-0-59-3 (15nb); Mohammad Fayyaz 20-2-65-6 (1nb; Saad Altaf 10-2-29-1 (4nb); Alamgir Khan 4-2-6-0

RAWALPINDI (2nd Innings):

Ahmed Shah lbw b Farhan 14

Babar Naeem lbw b Farhan 1

Pervez Aziz not out 73

Shiraz Khalid lbw b Azhar 10

Nauman Aman not out 9

EXTRAS (NB-1) 1

TOTAL : (for three wkts, 26.1 overs) 108

FALL OF WKTS: 1-2, 2-49, 3-68.

BOWLING: Azhar Abbas 13.1-0-50-1 (1nb); Farhan Abbasi 9-3-34-2; Naeem Iqbal 2-0-17-0; Khurram Shahzad 2-0-7-0.

Summarised scores of other pre-quarterfinals:

At Bahawalpur Stadium, Bahawalpur:

Faisalabad beat Sialkot by an innings and seven runs.

SIALKOT 121 (Faisal Khan 33, Tahir Mughal 26; Farooq Iqbal 4-19, Nadeem Afzal 2-30, Moazzam Ali 2-32, Tauqir Hussain 2-37) and 263 (Shaiman Butt 83, Shahid Khan 38 not out, Shakeel Ansar 28, Usman Mushtaq 27, Zahid Fazal 26; Farooq Iqbal 6-67, Moazzam Ali 2-96);

FAISALABAD 391 (Wasim Haider 101, Sami-ul-Haq 63, Mohammad Zaman 52, Zeeshan Asif 39, Ijaz Mahmood 32; Tahir Mughal 5-113, Adeel Malik 2-92).

*At Arbab Niaz Stadium, Peshawar:

LAHORE WHITES 131 (Umar Javed 37, Aamir Sajjad 22; Ahmed Hayat 4-58, Samiullah Niazi 3-32, Jibran Khan 2-17) and 111-4 (Tariq Rasheed 36 not out, Rizwan Aslam 34, Fahad-ul-Haq 20; Jibran Khan 2-25);

SARGODHA 277 (Usman Arshad 92 not out, Ahmed Hayat 29, Jibran Khan 29, Khurram Niazi 25, Majid Saeed 24; Khurram Chauhan 7-70, Umar Javed 2-30).