04 November 2004	Thursday	20 Ramazan 1425

KARACHI, Nov 3: A splendid unbeaten century by Bazid Khan sent Hyderabad on a leather hunt as Rawalpindi amassed 314 for three in their first innings on the first day of the Quaid-i-Azam Trophy cricket match at the Niaz Stadium in Hyderabad on Wednesday.

Bazid struck 146 off 228 balls as he unleashed 19 boundaries during his 274-minute knock. Bilal Asad made a rapid 66 off 93 balls while putting on 141 for the third wicket with Bazid. Bilal hit 11 fours and one six.

Rawalpindi, who were asked to bat first by Hyderabad skipper Faisal Athar, lost left-handed opener Asher Zaidi for seven. Fellow opener Babar Naeem was also back in the hut after making 22.

Bazid, who made his international debut in the recent tri-series one-day tournament, playing in the two games against Zimbabwe, found another useful partner in ex-Test batsman Naveed Qureshi.

Naveed was batting with 45 in the unfinished fourth-wicket stand worth 114 runs so far with Bazid, who brought up his century off 141 balls in just over three hours with 14 hours.

Scoreboard

RAWALPINDI (1st Innings):

Asher Zaidi c Rizwan b Kashif 7

Babar Naeem c Zafar b Hanif 22

Bazid Khan not out 146

Bilal Asad c Akhtar b Mazhar 66

Naveed Qureshi not out 45

EXTRAS (LB-2, W-7, NB-7) 16

TOTAL (for three wkts, 78 overs) 314

FALL OF WKTS: 1-22, 2-59, 3-200.

TO BAT: Usman Saeed, Adnan Naveed, Rao Iftikhar, Alamgir Khan, Yasin Bari, Najaf Shah.

BOWLING (to-date): Kashif Raza 17-1-45-1; Mazhar Ali 13-0-63-1 (5nb); Rehan Riaz 10-1-45-0 (2nb); Hanif-ur-Rehman 6-1-33-1; Nasir Awais 18-1-61-0; Rizwan Ahmed 13-0-52-0; Faisal Athar 1-0-13-0 (2w).

HYDERABAD: Akhtar Bangash, Akram Khan, Faisal Athar, Shahid Qambrani, Hanif-ur-Rehman, Rizwan Ahmed, Zafar Ali, Nasir Awais, Kashif Raza, Rehan Riaz, Mazhar Ali.

UMPIRES: Islam Khan and Nadeem Ghauri.

MATCH REFEREE: Taslim Arif.

OFFICIAL SCORER: Arif Majeed Arif.