January 25, 2007	Thursday	Muharram 05, 1428

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KARACHI, Jan 24: Islamabad continued their dominance of the Quaid-i-Azam Trophy Silver League competition by bowling out Hyderabad for a paltry first-innings total of 106 at the Mirpur Cricket Stadium in Azad Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday.

Put into bat by Rao Iftikhar, Hyderabad soon found themselves in deep trouble at 18 for four, losing three of the wickets to the Islamabad skipper.

Fellow paceman Zohaib Ahmed then cleaned up middle-order batting with figures of four for 31 as the visitors were bundled out in 41.2 overs.

By close of play Islamabad were already in front at 116 for three. Opener Atif Ashraf hammered eight fours in making 54. Farhan Ayub, the medium-pacer, took all the wickets to fall so far.

Scoreboard

HYDERABAD (1st Innings):

Aqeel Anjum b Rao Iftikhar 0

Faisal Athar lbw b Rauf 13

Hanif-ur-Rehman lbw b Rao Iftikhar 0

Rizwan Ahmed c Kashif b Rao Iftikhar 10

Shahid Qambrani lbw b Rauf 0

Hanif Malik c sub b Zohaib 17

Pir Zulfiqar c Atif b Zohaib 11

Lal Kumar c Afaq b Zohaib 6

Nasir Awais not out 25

Farhan Ayub run out 2

Sufyan Ali c Afaq b Zohaib 3

EXTRAS (B-5, LB-4, W-4, NB-6) 19

TOTAL (all out, 41.2 overs) 106

FALL OF WKTS: 1-1-1, 2-1, 3-13, 4-18, 5-37, 6-65, 7-72, 8-77, 9-97.

BOWLING: Rao Iftikhar 16-5-38-3 (1w); Rauf Akbar 8-0-17-2; Zohaib Ahmed 12.2-4-31-4 (5nb, 1w); Fakhir Hussain 5-1-11-0 (1nb, 2w).

ISLAMABAD (1st Innings):

Afaq Raheem lbw b Farhan 37

Atif Ashraf c Hanif Malik b Farhan 54

Bilal Asad lbw b Farhan 4

Fayyaz Ahmed not out 12

Ameer Khan not out 4

EXTRAS (LB-1, W-1, NB-3) 5

TOTAL (for three wkts, 25.5 overs) 116

FALL OF WKTS: 1-76, 2-88, 3-101.

TO BAT: Ashar Zaidi, Raja Kashif, Rao Iftikhar, Zohaib Ahmed, Rauf Akbar, Fakhir Hussain.

BOWLING (to-date): Farhan Ayub 13-1-48-3; Sufyan Ali 5.5-0-29-0 (1w); Lal Kumar 7-0-38-0 (3nb).

UMPIRES: Mian Aslam and Rasheed Bhatti.

MATCH REFEREE: Azhar Khan.

OFFICIAL SCORER: Adnan Farooq.