18 December 2004	Saturday	05 Ziqa'ad 1425

KARACHI, Dec 17: Karachi Whites off-spinner Tahir Khan grabbed five wickets to bowl out Multan for 266 in their first innings on the third day of their Quaid-i-Azam Trophy match at UBL Sports Complex ground on Friday.

Tahir captured five wickets which cost him 98 in a marathon 43.5 overs spell as Multan needing 269 runs were bowled out for 266, failing to avoid the follow-on by three runs.

However, KW skipper Moin Khan did not enforce the follow-on and hosts made 83 without loss in the second innings. Khurram Mansoor hit seven boundaries in his unbeaten 54 off 45 balls and Muhammad Farrukh was 26 not out that included three hits to the ropes.

KW are now enjoying an overall lead of 235 runs and all their second innings wickets intact. Multan resuming at their overnight score of 100 for one frustrated the KW bowling in the first session. Usman Tariq and night watchman Abdul Rauf added 77 runs for the second wicket.

Usman hit six fours and a six in his 70 before being caught behind off Tahir. Rauf was run out for 54 and his knock was studded with five boundaries and a six. Multan lost last six batsmen for 73 runs with Tahir and pacer Rajesh Ramesh sharing the wickets.

SCOREBOARD 



KW (Ist innings) 418 



Multan (Ist innings) (overnight 100-1) 



Yasir Arafat b Rizwan Qureshi        43 



Usman Tariq st Moin b Tahir          70 



Abdul Rauf run out                   54 



Hasnain Abbas b Tahir                6 



Aamir Bashir b Tahir                 40 



Asif Iqbal lbw b Rajesh              14 



Azhar Shafiq c Khurram b Rajesh      0 



Shahid Hamid run out                 8 



Kamran Hussain c Farrukh b Tahir     1 



Shahzad Butt c Zeeshan b Tahir       11 



Azharullah not out                   5 



Extras (b2,lb5, w1, nb6)             14 



Total (allout in 102.5 overs)        266 



Fall of wkt: 1-96, 2-173, 3-173, 4-193, 5-215, 6-215, 7-239, 8-247, 9-248 



Bowling: Rajesh Ramesh 25-4-70-2, Rizwan Saeed 4-0-25-0, Tahir Khan 43.510-98-5, 
Rizwan Qureshi 28-8-59-1, Mansoor Baig 1-0-3-0, Zeeshan Pervez 1-0-4-0. 



KW (2nd innings)



Khurram Manzoor not out              54 



Muhammad Farrukh not out             26 



Extras (b1, nb2)                     3 



Total (for no wicket in 18 overs)    83 



Bowling: Abdul Rauf 6-0-25-0, Kamran Hussain 4-0-23-0, Azharullah 2-0-6-0, 
Khurram Butt 3-0-8-0, Yasir Arafat 3-0-20-0. 



Umpires: Iftikhar Malik and Asad Rauf. 



Match referee: Taslim Arif. -APP