Faisalabad tie drawn

Published February 13, 2004

LAHORE, Feb 12: As expected, the rain-hit Quaid-i-Azam Trophy tie between Faisalabad and Sialkot ended in a tame draw at the Iqbal Stadium in Faisalabad on Thursday. Sialkot, who resumed at 291 for seven, were all out for 360 in reply to Faisalabad's first innings total of 381.

Off-spinner Saeed Ajmal finished with four for 102. Faisalabad utilised the remaining time to reach 242 for seven in their second innings with Test rejects Mohammad Hafeez (58 with 10 fours) and skipper Misbah-ul-Haq (52 with nine fours) making up for first innings failures.

Test off-spinner Shoaib Malik, the Sialkot skipper, bagged four for 76 to finish with a match haul of seven for 145.

Scoreboard

FAISALABAD (1st Innings) 381 (Ijaz Ahmed Jr 96, Naved Latif 88).

SIALKOT (1st Innings, overnight 291-7):

Imran Nazir c Misbah b Saeed 83

Faisal Khan lbw b Shahid 1

Shahid Yousuf c Saeed b Faisal 16

Shahzad Malik c Misbah b Saeed 93

Shoaib Malik c Naved b Saeed 8

Qaiser Abbas c Salman b Naved 25

Rana Naveed-ul-Hasan lbw b Faisal 41

Zahid Saeed b Shahid 13

Abdul Rehman c Ramzan b Saeed 21

Hafiz Khalid not out 25

Jaffar Nazir c Salman b Ahmed 8

EXTRAS (B-5, LB-15, W-2, NB-4) 26

TOTAL (all out, 110.1 overs) 360

FALL OF WKTS: 1-12, 2-43, 3-134, 4-150, 5-221, 6-275, 7-285, 8-376, 9-332.

BOWLING: Shahid Nazir 29-6-76-2; Ahmed Hayat 13.1-3-48-1; Faisal Afridi 21-4-80-2; Saeed Ajmal38-10-102-4; Naved Latif 5-1-13-1; Mohammad Hafeez 4-0-21-0.

FAISALABAD (2nd Innings):

Mohammad Hafeez c sub b Zahid 58

Mohammad Ramzan b Jaffar 11

Asif Hussain b Rehman 48

Misbah-ul-Haq c sub b Shoaib 52

Ijaz Ahmed Jr lbw b Shoaib 4

Naved Latif b Shoaib 0

Mohammad Salman not out 20

Ahmed Hayat lbw b Shoaib 23

EXTRAS (LB-10, NB-6) 16

TOTAL (for seven wkts, 57 overs) 242

FALL OF WKTS: 1-41, 2-86, 3-182, 4-184, 5-188, 6-223, 7-223.

BOWLING: Rana Naveed-ul-Hasan 7-0-42-0; Jaffar Nazir 7-0-23-1; Zahid Saeed 5-1-22-1; Abdul Rehman 19-3-54-1; Shoaib Malik 17-2-76-4; Imran Nazir 2-0-15-0.

RESULT: Match drawn.

UMPIRES: Aleem Dar and Asad Rauf.

MATCH REFEREE: Musaddeq Rasool.

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