25 October 2004	Monday	10 Ramazan 1425

KARACHI, Oct 24: Ex-Test pace bowler Fazle Akbar claimed a hat trick to put Peshawar firmly in driving seat of their Quaid-i-Azam Trophy fixture against Karachi at the Quaid-i-Azam Cricket Park on Sunday.

Fazle took the wickets of Khalid Latif, Hasan Raza and Saeed bin Nasir in his second over to reduce Karachi Blues to seven for three.

Janisar Khan then had night-watchman Azam Hussain to leave the hosts tottering at 25 for four at stumps on the third evening.

Earlier, Peshawar skipper Wajahatullah Wasti scored 71 off 170 balls with eight boundaries. Helped further by useful contributions from Akhtar Sarfraz (33), Taimur Khan (32) and Waqar Ahmed (33), Peshawar managed 294 in reply to the Blues' first innings of 310.

Scoreboard

KARACHI BLUES (1st Innings) 310 (Shadab Kabir 59; Arshad Khan 4-70).

PESHAWAR (1st Innings, overnight 121-4):

Jahangir Khan Sr b Tanvir 4

Riffatullah Mohmand b Nasir 0

Aftab Khan c Hasan b Nasir 26

Shoaib Khan c Khalid b Nasir 50

Wajahatullah Wasti c Tanvir b Khalid 71

Akhtar Sarfraz b Azam 33

Janisar Khan b Khalid 3

Taimur Khan lbw b Imran 32

Arshad Khan c Rashid b Khalid 14

Waqar Ahmed c Tanvir b Nasir 33

Fazle Akbar not out 17

EXTRAS (LB-4, W-3, NB-4) 11

TOTAL (all out, 118.2 overs) 294

FALL OF WKTS: 1-4, 2-4, 3-73,4-92, 5-189, 6-195, 7-199, 8-217, 9-253.

BOWLING: Tanvir Ahmed 29-9-106-1 (4nb); Nasir Khan 35.2-13-58-4 (2w); Azam Hussain 19-4-50-1; Imran Javed 28-13-54-1 (1w); Khalid Latif 7-1-22-3.

KARACHI BLUES (2nd Innings):

Naumanullah not out 10

Khalid Latif b Fazle 6

Hasan Raza lbw b Fazle 0

Saeed bin Nasir c Shoaib b Fazle 0

Azam Hussain c Jahangir b Janisar 1

Shadab Kabir not out 3

EXTRAS B-1, LB-3, NB-1) 5

TOTAL (for four wkts, 14 overs) 25

FALL OF WKTS: 1-7, 2-7, 3-7, 4-13.

BOWLING (to-date): Fazle Akbar 7-2-7-3; Waqar Ahmed 2-1-5-0; Janisar Khan 4-1-9-1 (1nb); Arshad Khan 1-1-0-0.