25 September 2004	Saturday	09 Shaban 1425

LAHORE, Sept 24: Middle order batsman Aamir Bashir struck an unbeaten 100 and tailender Riaz Afridi scored breezy 66 as PCB Patrons XI declared their first innings at 529 for nine wickets on the second day of the four-day match against Zimbabwe at Qadhafi Stadium on Friday.

Aamir and Riaz, inspired by brilliant century by their skipper (130) and useful (94) by vice captain, Bazid Khan put the inexperienced touring side bowlers to sword as the home side resumed at overnight score of 352 for five wickets.

At stumps, Zimbabwe were struggling at 184 for four wickets, still requiring 193 runs to avoid follow-on. Zimbabwe were given some relief by Brendon Taylor who was unbeaten 90 after a middle order collapse. Taylor had so far struck 15 boundaries and one six and the other not out batsman was skipper Tatenda Taibu who has yet to open his account.

Pacer Yasir Arafat took two wickets for 30 runs. Taylor and V. Sibanda (34) added 81 runs for the fourth wicket to help their side to recover from being 106 for three.

Aamir overnight at 25 went on to complete his century with the help of one six and nine fours, consuming 170 balls in 262 minutes. Yasir, the other overnight batsman, progressed to 26 after starting at 14.

Then Riaz showed his prowess with the bat, further adding to the misery of the Zimbabwe attack which failed to stop the flow of stroke play of the Patrons XI batsmen. medium pacer Rainsford finished with two for 91.

SCOREBOARD

Patrons XI (1st innings) (overnight 353 for five in 83 overs)

Faisal Athar c and b Rainsfors 12

Bazid Khan c Taibu b Mupariwa 94

Numan Ullah c Maragwede b Sibanda 56

Misbah ul Haq c Rainsford b Cremer 130

Aamer Bashir notout 100

Adnan Akmal lbw Matsikenyeri 13

Yasir Arafat runout 27

Mansoor Amjad lbw Rainsford 3

Riaz Afridi c Taylor b Matsikenyeri 66

Rao Iftikhar c Taylor b Matsikenyeri 11

Extras (lb-13,nb-4) 17

Total (for nine wkts dec in 116.2 overs) 529

did not bat: Wasim Khan

Fall of wkts: 1-23, 2-112, 3-244, 4-313, 5-334 6-374, 7-383, 8-502, 9-529

Bowling: T. Panyangara 20-2-63-0 (nb-2), C. Rainsford 25-5-91-2, T. Mupariwa 15-2-80-1, V. Sibanda 14-3-77-1 (nb-1), AG Cremer 17-2-10-4-1 (nb-1) B. Matsikenyeri 25.2-1-101-3

Zimbabwe (1st innings)

B Taylor batting 90

D.Ebrahim lbw Yasir 19

A.Maragwede c Aamir b Wasim 5

M.Vermeulen c Adnan b Mansoor 28

V.Sibanda lbw Yasir 34

T.Taibu batting 0

Extras (b-4, lb-7) 11

Total (for 4 wkts in 52.4 overs) 187

Fall of wkts: 1-57-2-57-3-106,4-187 Bolwing: Rao Iftikhar 10-1-27-0, Riaz Afridi 10-4-27-0, Wasim Khan 10-1-42-1, Yasir Arafat 6.4-2-30-2, Mansoor Amjad 16-2-57-1. -APP