September 30, 2008	Tuesday	Ramazan 29, 2008

NAIROBI, Sept 29: Opener Raheel Majeed century along with captain Khurram Manzoor’s half-century set up an easy 106-run victory for the touring team of Pakistan’s National Cricket Academy (NCA) over Kenya in the third and final one-day match at the Nairobi Gymkhana on Sunday.

By winning this match, the tourists completed a three-nil clean-sweep in the series. The tourists remained unbeaten in the 10-odd matches on the twin-tour of Zimbabwe and Kenya, winning both the four-day matches and all three one-dayers on the Kenyan leg of the tour.

Raheel (106) and Khurram (76) added 176 runs for the second wicket as Pakistan posted a testing 254 for eight after they elected to bat first in the tour’s last game.

The Pakistanis then dismissed Kenyan national side for just 148 in 37 overs with leg-spinner Yasir Shah taking three wickets for 23 and fast bowlers Mohammad Aamir and Junaid Khan claiming two scalps each for 20 and 18 runs respectively from six and eight overs.

Raheel underlined his all-round qualities with a two-wicket burst from three overs.

Raheel, who scored 317 in the second four-day match against Kenya in Mombasa, faced 120 balls in his 106, hitting the ball 14 times to the fence and once over it.

Khurram consumed 95 deliveries for his 76, smashing four boundaries and a six. The pair came together after opener Asad Shafiq was dismissed for nought. Fawad Alam contributed 25 off 42 balls with three boundaries while Ali Asad made 28 off 29 balls with two fours as none of the succeeding batsmen reached the double figures for the academy team.

For Kenya, L.N. Onyango captured four wickets for 49 with Odoyo taking 2 for 21, Odhiambo 1 for 23 and Onayngo 1 for 33.

In response, Kenya slumped to 32 for four in the 12th over and could never recover. J.K. Kamande, batting at number seven, top-scored with 39 off 49 balls with five boundaries.

Other players with contributions of little note were Otieno (17), Obuya (9), Rakep Patel (20), Odoyo (12) and no eight and nine Odhiambo and Onyango (16 each).

Khurram tried seven bowlers. As a result strike bowlers Mohammad Aamir and Junaid Khan bowled six and eight overs, Mohammad Talha had four overs, spinners Imad Wasim and Yasir Shah bowled seven overs each and Fawad Alam and Raheel Majeed two and three overs respectively.

Summarised scores:

PAKISTAN’S NATIONAL CRICKET ACADEMY 254 for 8 in 50 overs (Raheel Majeed 106, Khurram Manzoor 76; L.N. Onyango 4-49, Odoyo 2-21); KENYA 148 in 37 overs (J.K. Kamande 39, Rakep Patel 20; Yasir Shah 3-23, Mohammad Aamir 2-20, Junaid Khan 2-18).—APP