NWFP fight back

Published January 10, 2002

KARACHI, Jan 9: Rest of NWFP staged some sort of a fight back against Peshawar by reaching 155 for seven in their second innings on a curtailed second day of the Quaid Trophy fixture at Arbab Niaz Stadium Wednesday.

According to details available from Peshawar, more than 24 overs were lost during the day because of bad light.

NWFP, facing a slender seven-run deficit, now lead by 148 with Asmatullah holding the fort with an unbeaten 54.

Scoreboard

REST OF NWFP (1st Innings) 92 (Fazle Akbar 5-31).

PESHAWAR (1st Innings) 99 (Shakeel-ur-Rehman 6-44).

REST OF NWFP (2nd Innings):

Imran Hussain b Waqar 9

Ahmed Said b Fazle 25

Ibrahim Afridi run out 0

Asmatullah not out 54

Adnan Raees c Wasim b Fazle 0

Bilal Marwat c Javed b Arshad 26

Haji Badshah lbw b Fazle 14

Sajid Shah lbw b Kabir 9

Mohammad Aslam not out 4

EXTRAS (LB-8, NB-6) 14

TOTAL (for seven wkts, 59.2 overs) 155

FALL OF WKTS: 1-30, 2-30, 3-49, 4-49, 5-96, 6-122, 7-148.

BOWLING (to-date): Kabir Khan 12.2-4-25-1; Fazle Akbar 17-6-39-3; Waqar Ahmed 12-1-37-1; Arshad Khan 17-4-42-1; Wajahatullah Wasti 1-0-4-0.

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