Iftikhar bowls ADBP to victory

Published October 13, 2001

KARACHI, Oct 12: Paceman Iftikhar Anjum bowled Agriculture Development Bank of Pakistan to an emphatic 134-run victory over Wapda on the final day of the four-day Patron’s Trophy match at Faisalabad’s Iqbal Stadium Friday.

Iftikhar captured seven for 80 as Wapda, resuming this morning at 31 for four and chasing 312 for victory, were bundled out fro 177.

Iftikhar finished the match with impressive figures of nine for 137.

Wapda’s Rehan Rafiq delayed the inevitable by scoring 74 off 94 balls. He featured in a face-saving 101-run eighth wicket stand with Kashif Raza after Wapda had slumped to 56 for seven.

Kashif contributed 36 with the bat.

Iftikhar’s new ball partner Faisal Afridi bagged the remaining three wicket conceding 40 runs to wrap up the game with match figures of six for 90.

Scoreboard

ADBP (1st innings) 244 (Inam-ul-Haq 70, Ijaz Mahmood 62, Kashif Raza 4-80, Faisal Irfan 3-38)

WAPDA (1st innings) 187 (Sarfraz Ahmad 46, Kashif Raza 40, Faisal Afridi 3-50; Javed Hayat 3-34)

ADBP 254 (2nd innings) (Zahoor Elahi 55, Javed Hayat 53, Inam-ul-Haq 48; Faisal Irfan 4-44; Aqeel Ahmad 3-58)

WAPDA (2nd innings) (overnight 31-4)

Bilal Khilji c Nadeem b Faisal Afridi 0

Sheraz Butt lbw b Iftikhar 16

Tariq Aziz c Ijaz b Iftikhar 4

Adil Nisar c Ijaz b Faisal 3

Aqeel Ahmed lbw b Iftikhar 0

Obaidullah c Ijaz b Iftikhar 12

Rehan Rafiq c Nadeem b Iftikhar 74

Zahid Umar lbw b Faisal 5

Kashif Raza lbw b Iftikhar 36

Sarfraz Ahmed b Iftikhar 17

Faisal Irfan not out 0

EXTRAS (b6, w1, nb3) 10

TOTAL (all out, 40.4 overs) 177

FALL OF WKTS: 1-5, 2-18, 3-25, 4-25, 5-39, 6-47, 7-56, 8-157, 9-160.

BOWLING: Faisal Afridi 13-3-40-3; Iftikhar Anjum 14.4-2-80-7; Fahad Masood 6-2-9-0; Javed Hayat 3-0-27-0; Inam-ul-Haq 4-0-15-0;

RESULT: ADBP won by 134 runs

POINTS: ADBP 15, Wapda 0

UMPIRES: Masroor Ali and Afzal Ahmed

MATCH REFEREE: Abdul Sami Khan.

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