January 08, 2007	Monday	Zilhaj 17, 1427

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KARACHI, Jan 7: Opener Asif Zakir narrowly missed scoring a century as Karachi Harbour made a fitting reply to Karachi Urban’s first innings score of 367 on the second day of the Quaid-i-Azam Trophy Gold League fixture at the National Stadium here on Sunday.

By close of play, Karachi Urban were sitting pretty at 226 for three with Saeed bin Nasir looking in ominous touch with an undefeated 75. Skipper Hasan Raza, the former Pakistan batsman, survived some anxious moments to score 12.

But it was Asif who stole the show as he struck 14 boundaries in making 93 off 141 balls during a stay of 231 minutes. He perished to a bat/pad catch at silly point off leg-spinner Mansoor Ahmed.

Asif was involved in two productive partnerships. First he added 80 for the opening stand with Khurram Manzoor (24) and then put on 96 for the second wicket with Saeed.

Afsar Nawaz fell cheaply when he saw his off-stump go cart-wheeling by a superb inswinger from Uzair-ul-Haq, who looked the best of three Karachi Urban pacemen.

Earlier, wicket-keeper/batsman Sarfraz Ahmed was last out after contributing a fine 60. His 109-ball innings was laced with five boundaries.

Scoreboard

KARACHI URBAN (1st Innings, overnight 333-8):

Shadab Kabir lbw b Ramesh 17

Khalid Latif b Ramesh 5

Naumanullah c Amin b Ramesh 10

Ariz Kamal b Tanvir 1

Fawwad Alam lbw b Tahir 110

Fahad Iqbal c and b Afsar 107

Sarfraz Ahmed c Hasan b Afsar 60

Mansoor Ahmed c Amin b Afsar 17

Anwar Ali Khan c Amin b Ramesh 16

Faraz Ahmed c Asif b Tanvir 5

Uzair-ul-Haq not out 5

EXTRAS (B-4, LB-5, W-2, NB-3) 14

TOTAL (all out, 107.2 overs) 367

FALL OF WKTS: 1-10, 2-30, 3-31, 4-39, 5-261, 6-261, 7-293, 8-320, 9-351.

BOWLING: Tanvir Ahmed 23-3-81-2 (1w); Rajesh Ramesh 31-9-101-4 (1w); Imran Javed 11-1-31-0 (2nb); Tahir Khan 24-5-63-1; Nauman Alvi 12-2-52-0; Afsar Nawaz 5.2-1-21-3; Hasan Raza 1-0-9-0.

KARACHI HARBOUR (1st Innings):

Asif Zakir c Ariz b Mansoor 93

Khurram Manzoor lbw b Faraz 24

Saeed bin Nasir not out 75

Afsar Nawaz b Uzair 6

Hasan Raza not out 12

EXTRAS (B-11, NB-5) 16

TOTAL (for three wkts, 72 overs) 226

FALL OF WKTS: 1-80, 2-176, 3-203.

TO BAT: Imran Javed, Amin-ur-Rehman, Tahir Khan, Rajesh Ramesh, Tanvir Ahmed, Nauman Alvi.

BOWLING (to-date): Anwar Ali Khan 20-3-62-0 (1nb); Faraz Ahmed 16-0-57-1; Uzair-ul-Haq 14-2-42-1; Mansoor Ahmed 15-3-46-1 (4nb); Fawwad Alam 7-3-8-0.