November 12, 2005	Saturday	Shawwal 9, 1426

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LAHORE, Nov 11: Half-centuries by Ashfaq Ahmed and Imran Qadir helped Lahore Shalimar remain in contention against Rawalpindi as their Quaid-i-Azam Trophy match heading towards an interesting finish on Friday.

Ashfaq hit 82 with 12 boundaries while Imran scored 54, cracking 10 fours, as Lahore Shalimar made 256 in their second innings setting the visitors an achieveable target of 153.

Ashfaq and Imran also added 97 runs in the second- wicket partnership.

SCOREBOARD

LAHORE SHALIMAR (1st innings) 138 (Hamayun Farhat 40).

RAWALPINDI (1st innings) 242 (Naved Qureshi 95; Muhammad Khalil 4-46).

LAHORE SHALIMAR (2nd innings, overnight 62 for one):

Sohail Ahmed c Sajid b Yasir 11

Imran Qadir c Usman b Tanvir 54

Ashfaq Ahmed lbw Alamgir 82

Kamran Sajid c Sajid b Najaf 13

Aamir Sajjad c Naved b Alamgir 23

Khaqan Arsal c Babar b Alamgir 15

Ali Hussain c Sajid b Najaf 1

Humayun Farhat c Usman b Najaf 0

Junaid Zia c Sajid b Alamgir 10

Fahad Masood c Sajid b Yasir 23

Muhammad Khalil not out 4

EXTRAS (B-4, LB-3, NB-13) 20

TOTAL (all out, 74.2 overs) 256

FALL OF WKTS: 1-20, 2-117, 3-147, 4-147, 5-194, 6-201, 7-202, 8- 202, 9-225.

BOWLING Yasir Arafat 18.2-2-83-2; Najaf Shah 21-2-64-3; Sohail Tanveer 14-0-57-1; Alamgir Khan 17-3-34-4; Babar Naeem 4-2-11-0.

RAWALPINDI (2nd innings):

Babar Naeem c Hamayun b Junaid 8

Sohail Nasir lbw Junaid 9

Sajid Mahmood lbw Khalil 0

Usman Saeed batting 7

Pervaiz Aziz batting 0

EXTRAS (B-6, LB-7, W-4, NB-2) 19

TOTAL (for three wkts, 11 overs) 43

FALL OF WKTS: 1-26, 2-36, 3-39.

BOWLING: Fahad Masood 5-2-10-0; Junaid Zia 5.5-2-17-2; Muhammad Khalil 1- 0-3-1.

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