November 1, 2005	Tuesday	Ramzan 27, 1426

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ISLAMABAD, Oct 31: Spurred by a century from Ashraf Ali, Abbottabad made a gallant chase but in the end fell short as they lost by 39 runs to Karachi Harbour in the Quaid-i-Azam Trophy Silver League match at the Diamond Cricket Ground on Monday.

Needing 340 for victory, Abbottabad were bowled out for 301 on the last day of the match with Ashraf making a fine 131 before being run out. Adnan Raees also did well with the bat scoring 64.

The chief wicket taker for Karachi Harbour was Malik Aftab who finished with 4-63.

SCOREBOARD

KARACHI HARBOUR (1st Innings) 351 (Fawad Alam 128 not out, Rajesh Ramesh 100; Nasir Jalil 4-82).

ABBOTTABAD (1st Innings) 298 (Bilal Marwat 103, Ali Naqvi 96).

KARACHI HARBOUR (2nd Innings) 286 (Afsar Nawaz 81).

ABBOTTABAD (2nd Innings, overnight 16-0):

Ahmed Said b Aftab 12

Sajid Rasheed lbw b Saeed 22

Adnan Raees c Agha Sabir b Aftab 64

Ali Naqvi run out 21

Ashraf Ali run out 131

Bilal Marwat c Saeed b Iqbal 18

Sajid Shah b Aftab 8

Amjad Waqas lbw b Ramesh 1

Nasir Jalil b Aftab 0

Dilawar Khan c Afsar b Irfan 1

Shakeelur Rahman not out 0

EXTRAS (B-12, LB-7, W-3, NB-1) 23

TOTAL (all out, 84 overs) 301

FALL OF WKTS: 1-16, 2-53, 3-154, 4-243, 5-262, 6-297, 7-297, 8-300, 9-300.

BOWLING: Malik Aftab 25-0-63-4 (2w); Rajesh Ramesh 21-0-91-1 (1w); Saeed bin Nasir 4-0-22-1; Irfanuddin 28-0-81-1; Mohtashim Ali 3-0-11-0, Iqbal Shaikh 3-0-11-1 (1nb).

UMPIRES: Siddique Khan and Kaukab Butt.

MATCH REFEREE: Saadat Ali.

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