ZTBL facing defeat

Published December 13, 2006

KARACHI, Dec 12: Off-spinner Saeed Ajmal grabbed five for 61 to help KRL enforced the follow-on ZTBL on the third day of the Patron’s Trophy Quadrangular Championship match at the UBL Sports Complex on Tuesday.

ZTBL, resuming their first innings at the overnight score of 151 for three, were bowled out for 212.

When play ended for the day, ZTBL were 124 for two in their second innings and still require 72 runs to avoid an innings defeat.

Aamir Bashir (53, six fours) and night-watchman Shakeel Ansar (36) were at the crease at draw of stumps.

Scoreboard

KRL (1st Innings) 407 (Saeed Anwar Jr 130, Zulfiqar Jan 100, Yasir Arafat 51; Imran Sabir 4-84).

ZTBL (1st Innings, overnight 131-3):

Afaq Raheem c S. Anwar b Saeed Ajmal 93

Atif Ashraf c and b Irshad 29

Umar Javed c Zulfiqar b Jaffar 17

Aamir Bashir b Saeed Ajmal 3

Faisal Naveed c Zulfiqar b Yasir 8

Adnan Raza c Rauf b Saeed Ajmal 19

Sharjeel Ansar b Rauf 4

Kashif Dawood c Zulfiqar b Rauf 1

Imran Sabir b Saeed Ajmal 7

Mohammad Khalil b Saeed Ajmal 13

Naeem Anjum not out 5

EXTRAS (NB-13) 13

TOTAL (all out in 71.1 overs) 212

FALL OF WKTS: 1-40, 2-95, 3-148, 4-131, 5-161, 6-183, 7-183, 8-192, 9-192.

BOWLING: Yasir Arafat 14-1-39-1; Abdur Rauf 17-7-64-2 (10nb); Mohammad Irshad 6-0-24-1 (3nb); Saeed Ajmal 23.1-5-61-5; Jaffar Nazir 8-3-19-1.

ZTBL (2nd Innings, following-on):

Afaq Raheem lbw b Jaffar 13

Atif Bashir c Shahzad b Irshad 14

Aamir Bashir not out 53

Shakeel Ansar not out 38

EXTRAS (LB-4, NB-3) 7

TOTAL (for two wkts, 51 overs) 124

FALL OF WKTS: 1-22, 2-32.

BOWLING (to-date): Mohammad Irshad 10-3-23-1; Jaffar Nazir 71-17-1 (1nb); Yasir Arafat 7-2-19-0 (2nb); Abdur Rauf 5-2-15-0; Saeed Ajmal 14-5-38-0; Saeed Anwar Jr 8-3-8-0.—APP

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