KARACHI, April 6: Karachi Port Trust suffered a five-wicket defeat against Allied Bank after a gallant partnership between Atif Ali Zaidi and Javed Qadeer lifted them to a respectable total in the Patron’s Cup Pool ‘A’ tie at the Niaz Stadium in Hyderabad on Wednesday.
The bankers could have been chasing less than 268 after having KPT dead and buried at 99 for seven. But Atif (69 off 86 balls, five fours) and Qadeer (93 off 77 balls, six fours and three sixes) came together in a remarkable eighth-wicket stand of 163 to raise hopes in the KPT camp.
However, Usman Tariq (60 off 83 balls, eight fours), Ijaz Ahmed Jr (54 off 49 balls, two fours and three sixes), Bilal Asad (38 off 29 balls) and Manzoor Akhtar (38 off 41 balls) ensured a comfortable first win for Allied Bank.
Scoreboard
KPT:
Fahad Iqbal c Salman b Bilal 27 Ariz Kamal c Salman b Taimur 5 Nadeem Javed b Taimur 20 Ahmer Saeed c Usman b Tanvir 7 Fahadullah run out 20 Saad Wasim c Salman b Bilal 6 Iqbal Shaikh c Ata b Zahid 10 Atif Ali Zaidi c Bilal b Tanvir 69 Javed Qadeer c Taimur b Tanvir 93 Rashid Hanif c Bilal b Taimur 0 Adeel Malik not out 2
EXTRAS (LB-2, W-5, NB-1) 8 TOTAL (all out, 49.1 overs) 267 FALL OF WKTS: 1-6, 2-30, 3-42, 4-78, 5-86, 6-87, 7-99, 8-262, 9-265. DID NOT BAT: (Fahad Khan). BOWLING: Tanvir Ahmed 10-0-58-3 (1nb, 1w); Taimur Khan 6.1-1-22-3; Ataur Rahman 1-0-13-0; Mohammad Zahid 10-1-40-1 (1w); Bilal Asad 10-1-63-2 (1w); Manzoor Akhtar 8-0-45-0 (1w); Usman Tariq 4-0-24-0 (1w).
ALLIED BANK:
Usman Tariq run out 60 Tahir Mughal c Javed Qadeer b Adeel 24 Bilal Asad c Nadeem b Adeel 38 Khalid Latif b Ariz 29
aley Haider c sub b Rashid 4
Ijaz Ahmed Jr not out 54 Manzoor Akhtar not out 38
EXTRAS (B-1, W-14, NB-7) 22 TOTAL (for five wkts, 43.2 overs) 269 FALL OF WKTS: 1-35, 2-104, 3-160, 4-168, 5-174. DID NOT BAT: Mohammad Salman, Taimur Khan, Tanvir Ahmed, Ataur Rahman, (Mohammad Zahid). BOWLING: Nadeem Javed 6-1-27-0 (1w); Adeel Malik 6-0-59-2 (2w); Fahad Khan 5-0-37-0 (1nb, 1w); Iqbal Shaikh 8.2-0-42-0 (3nb, 4w); Rashid Hanif 10-1-41-1; Ariz Kamal 4-0-31-1 (1w); Fahad Iqbal 1-0-9-0 (2nb, 2w).
UMPIRES: Afzaal Ahmed and Islam Khan. MATCH REFEREE: Naeem Ahmed.
