Raheel shines

Published April 4, 2005

KARACHI, April 3: Opener Raheel Majeed hammered a fine century to propel ZTBL to a crushing eight-wicket victory over Karachi Port Trust (KPT) in the Patron’s Cup Pool ‘A’ one-day match at the UBL Sports Complex on Sunday. This tournament is being played with a change in playing conditions. A team can pick from a 12-member playing squad, but only 11 may bat or field.

Scoreboard

KPT:

Maisam Hasnain c Raheel b Imran 0

Shadab Kabir run out 67

Ahmer Saeed c Zahoor b Imran 17

Fahadullah b Mansoor 45

Saad Wasim run out 35

Iqbal Shaikh c Shahid b Raheel 27

Rashid Hanif c Zahoor b Munir 14

Javed Qadeer not out 31

Ariz Kamal not out 11

EXTRAS (LB-5, W-13) 18

TOTAL (for seven wkts, 50 overs) 265

FALL OF WKTS: 1-0, 2-41, 3-114, 4-148, 5-195, 6-217, 7-217.

DID NOT BAT: Mansoor Ahmed, Fahad Khan, (Adeel Malik).

BOWLING: Imran Sabir 10-0-53-2 (2w); Mohammad Siddique 7-0-31-0;

Shahid Yousuf 1-0-8-0; Raheel Majeed 8-0-47-1 (4w); Munir Ansari 6-0-31-1 (5w);

Mansoor Amjad 8-1-44-1; Javed Hayat 10-0-46-0.

ZTBL:

Raheel Majeed c Ahmer b Ariz 129

Hammad Tariq c Saad b Ariz 62

Shahid Yousuf not out 40

Naveed Qureshi not out 19

EXTRAS (LB-5, W-4, NB-7) 16

B>TOTAL (for two wkts, 43.4 overs) 266

FALL OF WKTS: 1-155, 2-229.

DID NOT BAT: Zahoor Elahi, Naveed Qureshi, Mansoor Amjad, Rehan Rafiq,

Adnan Akmal, Munir Ansari, Mohammad Siddique, Imran Sabir, (Javed Hayat).

BOWLING: Adeel Malik 7-0-49-0 (4nb); Fahad Khan 7-1-30-0; Iqbal Shaikh 4-0-28-0;

Rashid Hanif 3-0-24-0; Mansoor Ahmed 7.4-0-35-0 (3nb); Ariz Kamal 10-0-68-2 (3w);

Maisam Hasnain 5-1-27-0 (1w).

RESULT: ZTBL won by eight wickets.

UMPIRES: Nadeem Ghauri and Shakeel Khan.

MATCH REFEREE: Saadat Ali.

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