Ramesh helps KH finish top

Published November 25, 2005

LAHORE, Nov 24: Medium-pacer Rajesh Ramesh grabbed five for 98 as Karachi Harbour defeated Lahore Ravi by nine wickets on Thursday to top the Quaid-i-Azam Trophy Silver League standings.

Lahore Ravi were all out for 219 in the second innings of the match at LCCA Ground after starting the final day at 115 for six. Ramesh got good support from fellow pacemen Mohammad Hasnain (3-68) and Malik Aftab (2-42).

The visitors lost Saeed bin Nasir for a duck in chase for a modest 15 runs.

Scoreboard

LAHORE RAVI (1st Innings) 240 (Rizwan Ahmed 53, Shahzad Butt 53).

KARACHI HARBOUR (1st Innings) 445 (Faisal Iqbal 148, Fawad Alam 72; Imran Tahir 6-112).

LAHORE RAVI (2nd Innings, overnight 115-6):

Kashif Siddique c Moin b Ramesh 4

Taufiq Umar b Ramesh 2

Umar Javed c Moin b Hasnain 18

Rashid Riaz c Moin b Ramesh 52

Rizwan Ahmed lbw b Ramesh 18

Zulqarnain Haider lbw b Aftab 9

Shahzad Butt b Ramesh 0

Zulqarnain Haider lbw b Aftab 9

Wasim Khan not out 54

Imran Tahir b Ramesh 0

Wahab Riaz b Hasnain 27

EXTRAS (B-4, LB-5, W-1) 10

TOTAL (all out, 66.1 overs) 219

FALL OF WKTS: 1-5, 2-16, 3-29, 4-36, 5-68, 6-81, 7-121, 8-144, 9-164.

BOWLING: Rajesh Ramesh 18-4-98-5; Mohammad Husnain 18.1—29-2; Malik Aftab 12-3-29-1; Fawad Alam 2-1-2-0.

KARACHI HARBOUR (2nd Innings):

Saeed bin Nasir c Wasim b Shahzad 0

Fawad Alam not out 4

Mohtashim Ali not out 8

EXTRAS (B-4) 4

TOTAL (for one wkt, 1.5 overs) 16

BOWLING: Shahzad Butt 1-0-8-1; Imran Tahir 0.5-0-4-0.

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