17 December 2004	Friday	04 Ziqa'ad 1425

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RAWALPINDI, Dec 16: Pace man Yasir Arafat achieved a rare feat grabbing five wickets off five deliveries as he bowled Rawalpindi to an impressive six-wicket victory inside two days against Faisalabad in their Quaid-i-Azam Trophy match at the Rawalpindi Stadium on Thursday.

After Faisalabad resumed their second innings at the overnight score of eight for no loss, their batting was wrecked again by Yasir who took another four wickets as the visitors were bundled out for 164. Misbahul Haq was the top scorer with 48.

Yasir, was a constant danger for the touring batsmen and picked up one wicket from the very first delivery of his spell to make it five wickets off five balls. He had mopped up the rival tail on Wednesday capturing four scalps from successive deliveries.

In what was a splendid display of bowling, Yasir finished the match with figures of nine for 67. Test discard Azhar Mahmood picked up three for 53. Requiring only 80 runs to win the match, Rawalpindi survived early hiccups losing four wickets before getting to the target, Ameer Khan remaining not out on 34. Shahid Nazir had two wickets for 29.

SCOREBOARD



FAISALABAD (1st innings) 64 (M. Asif 19; Yasir Arafat 5-22, Yasin Bari 3-4) 



RAWALPINDI (1st innings) 148 (Azhar Mahmood 44; Ali Raza 4-26, Shahid Nazir 3-48) 



FAISALABAD (2nd innings) (Overnight 8-0) 



M. Asif c Rao b Azhar                   22



Tauqeer Hussain b Azhar                 1 



M. Hafeez lbw b Yasir                   7 



Misbahul Haq lbw b Yasir                48 



Ijaz Ahmed Jnr c Sajid b Rao            26 



Navid Latif b Azhar                     6 



Ahmed Hayat c Sajid b Rao               14 



Imran Khalid not out                    14 



Shahid Nazir c Azhar b Yasir            0 



Kamran Naeem b Yasir                    2 



Ali Raza run out                        7 



Extras: (LB-11, NB-6)                   17 



TOTAL (all out, 51.3 overs)             164 



FALL OF WKTS: 1-9, 2-33, 3-37, 4-87, 5-98, 6-135, 7-139, 8-139, 9-147 



BOWLING: Azhar Mahmood 16-5-53-3, Rao Iftikhar 18.3-5-45-2, 
Yasir Arafat 11-1-45-4, Yasin Bari 5-1-9-0, Bazid Khan 1-0-1-0.



RAWALPINDI (2nd innings) 



Ashar Zaidi lbw b Shahid Nazir          21 



Afaq Raheem c Tauqeer b Ahmed Hayat     6 



Bazid Khan lbw b Shahid Nazir           0 



Ameer Khan not out                      34 



Naveed Qureshi lbw b Ali Raza           7 



Bilal Asad not out                      7 



Extras: (B-2, LB-3, NB-3)               8 



TOTAL (for four wickets, 21.1 overs)    83