KH fight back against Pindi

Published January 14, 2007

RAWALPINDI, Jan 13: Karachi Harbour fought back to have Rawalpindi struggling as their four-day Quaid-i-Azam Trophy Gold League after second day's action at the Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium on Saturday.

Rawalpindi shot out Karachi Harbour for a first-innings score of 149 to obtain a lead of 26 runs. But home side finished the day on 122-5 in their second innings to hold an overall lead of 148.

Fawwad Alam hit 48 off 99 balls with four boundaries in the Karachi Harbour's first innings. He got support from Akbar Rehman, who scored 32 off 49 balls with four hits to the boundary rope.

Opener Babar Naeem hammered a brisk 50 off 59 balls with six fours and two sixes. Anwar Ali Khan claimed 3-51 to bring his match haul to nine wickets so far.

Scoreboard

Rawalpindi 1st Innings 175

KARACHI 1st Innings (overnight 35-2)

Khalid Latif c Asif b Sohail 9

Shadab Kabir c Sajid b Yasir 15

Akbar Rehman c Asif b Rizwan 32

Anwer Ali c Baber b Sohail 3

Fawad Alam c Rizwan b Najaf 48

Nomanullah c Sajid b Rizwan 5

Fahad Iqbal lbw b Sohail 0

Sarfraz Ahmed c Usman b Najaf 15

Rizwan Saeed c Sajid b Najaf 0

Mansoor Ahmed lbw b Yasir 6

Uzairul Haq not out 4

EXTRAS: (B-4, LB-3, NB-5) 12

TOTAL: (all out, 55.1 overs) 149

FALL OF WKTS: 1-28, 2-28, 3-46, 4-78, 5-84, 6-85, 7-132, 8-138, 9-139

BOWLING: Yasir 17.1-4-46-2, Najaf 10-4-21-3, Sohail 17-2-38- 3, Rizwan 10-0-34-2, Baber 1-0-3-0

RAWALPINDI 2nd Innings

Baber Naeem c Shadab b Uzair 50

Mohammad Wasim b Anwar 15

Asif Mehmood c Noman b Rizwan 9

Naveed Qureshi c Sarfraz b Anwar 33

Usman Saeed batting 3

Yasir Arafat c Sarfraz b Anwer 4

Sajid Mehmood batting 0

EXTRAS: (LB-8) 8

TOTAL: (for 5 wkts, 29.5 overs) 122

FALL OF WKTS: 1-29, 2-50, 3-92, 4-118, 5-122

BOWLING: Anwer 14.5-3-51-3, Uzair 10-4-31-1, Rizwan 5-0-32-1

UMPIRES: Nadeem Ghouri and Iftikhar Malik

MATCH REFEREE: Rizwan Khatib

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