Blazing knock by Sufyan

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RAWALPINDI, Dec 18: Sui Gas’s Sufyan Munir stroked a blazing 175 on Thursday in the Patron’s Trophy match against National Bank that was drawn at the Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium.

Sufyan, beginning the final day of this Pool ‘B’ fixture at his personal score of 109, added some quick runs as did Saleem Mughal (50 not out) before Sui Gas declared their first innings closed at 353 for five. They had resumed at the overnight score of 231 for two.

Misbah-ul-Haq, not out 111 overnight, was however bowled at the same score in the morning by Test leg-spinner Mushtaq Ahmed who had figures of two for 48.

National Bank replied with 136 for four with Naumanullah unbeaten on 55 when play ended. The first two days of the match were washed out.

Scoreboard

SUI GAS (1st Innings, overnight 231-2):

Ali Hussain c Sarfraz b Aleem 1

Sufyan Munir b M. Javed 175

Misbah-ul-Haq lbw b Mushtaq 111

Sohail Idrees lbw b Mushtaq 3

Saleem Mughal not out 50

Ali Raza not out 0

EXTRAS (LB-3, NB-8) 11

TOTAL (for five decl, 114.4 overs) 353

FALL OF WKTS: 1-1, 2-3, 3-233, 4-247, 5-352.

DID NOT BAT: Imran Tahir, Shahid Khan, Sajid Ali, Adnan Farooq.

BOWLING: Asad Zarar 26-5-71-0; Aleem Musa 17-2-75-2; Mushtaq Ahmed 24-7-48-2; Mohammad Javed 23-0-96-1; Qaiser Abbas 17-3-34-0; Shahid Anwar 2-0-21-0; Hanif Rehman 5.4-2-5-0.

NATIONAL BANK (1st Innings):

Shahid Anwar c Misbah b Adnan 0

Hanif Rehman run out 7

Naumanullah not out 55

Qaiser Abbas b Sajid 5

Sajid Ali c Saleem b Shahid 33

Kamran Akmal not out 13

EXTRAS (LB-2, W-5, NB-16) 23

TOTAL (for four wkts, 34 overs) 136

FALL OF WKTS: 1-9, 2-15, 3-30, 4-106.

DID NOT BAT: Akhtar Sarfraz, Mohammad Javed, Mushtaq Ahmed, Aleem Musa, Asad Zarar.

BOWLING: Sajid Ali 6-1-29-1; Adnan Farooq 10-2-25-1; Shahid Khan 9-1-42-1; Imran Tahir 7-0-32-0; Saleem Mughal 2-0-6-0.

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