April 19, 2006	Wednesday	Rabi-ul-Awwal 20, 1427

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LAHORE, April 18: Pace quartet of Shahid Nazir, Samiullah Niazi, Asad Ali and Ahmed Hayat bowled Faisalabad to a crushing two-day victory over Karachi Harbour in the Pentangular Cup fixture at the Qadhafi Stadium on Tuesday.

By virtue of this innings and two-run win, Faisalabad raised their hopes of winning the title as they went to the top with 27 points from four matches.

On the other end, it was the consecutive third defeat of Harbour.

Karachi Harbour were forced to follow-on after crashing to 144 all out in their first innings with Shahid (4-34) and Asad Ali (3-30) sharing most of the wickets.

Mohtashim Ali (31) and

Fawad Alam (30) were the main run-getters followed by27 extras. Asim Kamal, the Karachi Harbour skipper, made just.

In their second innings

Karachi Harbour once again

had no answer to the hostile bowling and were bundled out for 166.

The damage this time was inflicted by Sami (3-36) and Ahmed Hayat (3-46).

Opener Khalid Latif and Fawad Alam, each scored 56with nine boundaries apiece as they came together to put on 78 for the fifth wicket.

Scoreboard

FAISALABAD (1st Innings) 312 (Mohammad Salman 71; Faraz Ahmed Khan 4-104).

KARACHI HARBOUR (1st Innings, overnight 17-2):

Khalid Latif c Ahmed b Shahid 4

Mohtashim Ali c Salman b Asad 31

Afsar Nawaz c Zahid b Shahid 0

Farhan Iqbal c Misbah b Shahid 13

Mansoor Baig c Zahid b Ahmed 7

Asim Kamal c Misbah b Asad 6

Fawad Alam c Salman b Shahid 30

Mohammad Hasnain c Misbah b Sami 23

Atif Maqbool b Asad 3

Faraz Ahmed Khan b Sami 0

Rajesh Ramesh not out 0

EXTRAS (LB-10, W-2, NB-15) 27

TOTAL (all out, 40.2 overs) 144

FALL OF WKTS: 1-6, 2-6, 3-42, 4-61, 5-77, 6-104, 7-131, 8-143, 9-144.

BOWLING: Shahid Nazir 16-3-34-4 (7nb); Samiullah Niazi 15.4-3-40-2 (2w); Asad Ali 9-2-30-3 (6nb); Ahmed Hayat 9-0-40-1 (2nb).

KARACHI HARBOUR (2nd Innings, following-on):

Khalid Latif c Hafeez b Ahmed 56

Mohtashim Ali b Sami 6

Afsar Nawaz c Hafeez b Sami 2

Mansoor Baig c Zahid b Shahid 1

Asim Kamal c Salman b Sami 2

Fawad Alam not out 56

Farhan Iqbal b Ahmed 6

Mohammad Hasnain c Imran b Ahmed 0

Atif Maqbool st Salman b Hafeez 5

Faraz Ahmed Khan st Salman b Hafeez 12

Rajesh Ramesh absent injured -

EXTRAS (B-1, LB-6, W-2, NB-11) 20

TOTAL (all out, 40.2 overs) 166

FALL OF WKTS: 1-10, 2-18, 3-24, 4-39, 5-117, 6-137, 7-137, 8-142, 9-166.

BOWLING: Samiullah Niazi 10-0-36-3 (2w); Asad Ali 7-0-34-0 (2nb); Shahid Nazir 7-1-17-1 (5nb); Mohammad Hafeez 6.3-0-26-2; Ahmed Hayat 10-1-46-3 (4nb).

RESULT: Faisalabad won by an innings and two runs.