November 15, 2003	Saturday	Ramazan 19, 1424

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RAWALPINDI, Nov 14: KRL’s Yasir Arafat showed deadly form on Friday claiming six wickets for 24 runs to send POF crashing to a 165-run defeat in their Patron’s Trophy qualifying round tie at the KRL Stadium.

After deciding to declare their second innings closed at the overnight score of 132 for seven, POF chasing 276 for victory, were skittled out for 110.

At the Army Cricket Ground, the match between ARL and Army ended in a draw with only two balls being bowled because of bad light.

ARL earned three points from the game by virtue of having gained a first innings lead.

Summarised scores:

At KRL Cricket Stadium, Rawalpindi: KRL v POF

KRL 298 for five wickets (Saeed bin Nasir 88, Muhammad Ramzan 75, Asif Mahmood 47; Shafik Khan 3-78) and 132 for seven dec in 22 overs (Ali Naqvi 40; Ziaul Haq 3-38)

POF 155 in 62 overs (Rashid Latif 46, Imran Ali 39; Jaffer Nazir 4-43, Muhammad Asif 3-53, Ali Naqvi 2-14) and 110 in 37 overs (Yaqub Khattak 25; Yasir Arafat 6-24, Jaffer Nazir 4- 57) - KRL win by 165 runs.

At Army Cricket Ground, Rawalpindi: ARL v Army

Army 165 in 54.4 overs (Babar 35, Zia Niazi 31, Zubair Wattoo 20; Alamgir Khan 6-29, Sohail Tanveer 2-39, Saad Altaf 2-54) and 102-3 (Sheraz 43 not out, Qari Fayyaz 4 not out)

ARL 308-8 in 83 overs (Yasir Arafat Jnr 100, Usman Saeed 46; Zubair Wattoo 5-111) - Match drawn.

APP adds from Peshawar: Wapda crushed PTV by an innings and 124 runs to book a place in the next stage of the from Pool-B match played at Arbab Niaz Cricket Stadium.

With this victory WAPDA points tally are 33 in Pool-B.

All-rounder Naveed-ul-Hasan was instrumental behind his team success with three wickets in the first innings and six for 34 runs in the second to finish with match haul of nine wickets for 78 runs.

Summarized scores:

Wapda 363 (Asif Hussain 106, Hassan Adnan 61; Suleman Khan 4-83)

PTV 116 ( Naveed-ul-Hasan 6-34) and 123 (Waqas Ahmed 5-23).