January 30, 2003	Thursday	Ziqa’ad 26,1423

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KARACHI, Jan 29: Rain curtailed play to only 84 minutes on the second day of the Quaid Trophy quarterfinal between Sargodha and Rawalpindi at Arbab Niaz Stadium in Peshawar on Wednesday.

According to details available here, after the start was delayed by 30 minutes because of early morning showers, Sargodha resumed their first innings at the overnight score of 297 for three and had advanced to 365 when more rain to stop play for the day.

Just before the stoppage for rain, 19 minutes prior to the lunch interval, Majid Saeed had become the second batsman in Sargodha’s innings to reach three figures. He was batting on 105 along with Usman Arshad (35) in the unbroken fourth-wicket stand of 141 in 121 minutes.

Majid’s 159-ball knock contains 18 boundaries.

Scoreboard

SARGODHA (1st Innings, overnight 297-3):

Mohammad Hafeez b Shiraz 106

Atiq Ahmed lbw b Akram 83

Sohail Maqbool c Akram b Shiraz 8

Majid Saeed not out 105

Usman Arshad not out 35

EXTRAS (B-11, LB-12, W-1, NB-4) 28

TOTAL (for three wkts, 105.2 overs) 297

FALL OF WKTS: 1-177, 2-193, 3-224.

BOWLING (to-date): Mohammad Akram 28-7-96-1 (4nb); Mohammad Fayyaz 19.2-3-72-0; Babar Naeem 7-4-11-0; Junaid Zia 18-4-66-0 (1w); Jawwad Hameed 13-3-30-0; Shiraz Khalid 17-2-58-2; Saqib Naqeeb 3-0-9-0.

RAWALPINDI: Babar Naeem, Saqib Naqeeb, Pervez Aziz, Shiraz Khalid, Nauman Aman, Asad Khan, Nadeem Abbasi, Jawwad Hameed, Junaid Zia, Mohammad Akram, Mohammad Fayyaz.

UMPIRES: Iftikhar Malik and Iqbal Butt.

MATCH REFEREE: Farrukh Zaman.