KARACHI: Southpaw Ramiz Aziz struck a splendid century while guiding Karachi Blues to a commanding 400-9 in their first innings against Dera Murad Jamali on day one of the third-round Quaid-i-Azam Trophy Grade-II fixture here on Sunday.

Opening to bat first after Rameez Raja won the toss at the TMC Ground, Karachi Blues battered Dera Murad Jamali bowlers with the left-handed Ramiz scoring 108 from 128 deliveries with the aid of 10 boundaries and a brace of sixes.

Young all-rounder Fahaddis Bukhari made 55 (65 balls, nine fours) as he and Ramiz added 139 for the fifth wicket. Opener Jaahid Ali struck a dozen boundaries in making 68 off 96 balls.

By stumps, the visitors were in tatters at 8-2.

Sialkot reached 24-0 after restricting Larkana to 228-9 at the National Stadium. Paceman Adnan Ghaus stood out with excellent figures of 5-59 in 16 overs.

Multan dominated Quetta by bowling the visitors for a 173 at the Multan Cricket Stadium.

But stumps on day of three, the hosts had collected 66 without loss.

Bahawalpur enjoyed a good at their Dring Stadium as Abbottabad managed a modest 214 all out in 58.2 overs. Slow left-armer Mohammad Imran Jr starred with five wickets for 55 runs in 16.2 overs.

By close of play Bahawalpur had progressed to 118-2 with opener Mohammad Wasim still at the crease with a 113-ball knock of 62, which includes nine hits to the fence.

Close of play scores on Sunday (day one of three):

Third round:

Pool ‘A’:

At Dring Stadium, Bahawalpur: ABBOTTABAD 214 in 58.2 overs (Kamran Ghulam 54, Farhan Hussain 38, Ahmed Jamal 38, Nasir Khan 24, Imran Shah 20; Mohammad Imran Jr 5-66, Imranullah Aslam 3-55); BAHAWALPUR 118-2 in 39 overs (Mohammad Wasim 62 not out, Abdullah Hamdani 31).

At Multan Cricket Stadium, Multan: QUETTA 173 in 64.1 overs (Nizamuddin 51, Shahzad Tareen 29; Sadaif Mehdi 3-35, Zulfiqar Babar 3-61, Zia-ul-Haq 2-32); MULTAN 66-0 in 23 overs (Zain Abbas 33 not out, Waqar Hussain 25 not out

Pool ‘B’:

At National Stadium, Karachi: LARKANA 228-9 in 83 overs (Mohsin Raza 45 not out, Zafar Ali 36, Asif Babar 25, Faraz Aziz 24; Adnan Ghaus 5-59, Abdur Rehman 2-24); SIALKOT 24-0 in 5 overs.

At TMC Ground, Karachi: KARACHI BLUES 400-9 in 83 overs (Ramiz Aziz 108, Jaahid Ali 68, Fahaddis Bukhari 55, Hasan Mohsin 43, Rameez Raja 42, Saud Shakeel 33, Saifullah Khan Bangash 32; Sanaullah 3-38, Hidayatullah 3-104); DERA MURAD JAMALI 8-2 in 4.5 overs.

Published in Dawn, April 9th, 2018