Gujranwala defeat Sargodha

Published January 12, 2002

LAHORE, Jan 11: Gujranwala registered a comfortable  seven-wicket win over Sargodha in the  Quaid Trophy tie at Academy Ground in Sheikhupura, according to  a message received here Friday.

Needing 95 for victory Gujranwala required 20 overs to accomplish the task.

Test reject Misbah-ul-Haq made 71 while opener Mohammad Hafeez contributed 76 in Sargodha’s second innings total of 310.

Scoreboard

SARGODHA (1st Innings) 129 (Naveed Arif 4-73).

GUJRANWALA (1st Innings) 345-8 dec (Imran Abbas 100, Tariq Javed 57, Mudassar Mushtaq 52).

SARGODHA (2nd Innings, overnight 151-2):

M. Hafeez c Majid b A. Rehman 76

Khurram Niazi c Arif b Sarfraz 38

Shahid Mahmood c Tariq b Mubashar 35

Umair Hasan c and b A. Rahman 13

Mohammad Nawaz b A. Rehman 0

Misbah-ul-Haq c Khalid b Sarfraz 71

Azhar Hussain c Khalid b Naveed 19

Hamaj Mukhtar c sub b A. Rahman 2

Ashraf Bashir lbw b Naveed 3

Ahmed Hayat not out 38

M. Sarfraz c Shafiq b Sarfraz 1

EXTRAS (B-1, LB-4, W-1, NB-8) 14

TOTAL (all out, 100.5 overs) 310

FALL OF WKTS: 1-99, 2-147, 3-163, 4-166, 5-176, 6-124, 7-231, 8-242, 9-284.

BOWLING: Mubashir Nazir 21-5-35-1; Naveed Arif 22-7-60-2; Sarfraz Ahmed 18.5-5-44-3; Abdul Rehman 36-9-136-4; Majid Saeed 1-0-4-0; Imran Abbas 2-0-6-0.

GUJRANWALA (2nd Innings):

Rizwan Malik c Shahid b Ahmed 0

Mudassar Mushtaq c Hamaj b Ahmed 19

Nasir Shafiq c Umair b Sarfraz 0

Majid Saeed not out 33

Tariq Javed not out 30

EXTRAS (W-3, NB-4) 7

TOTAL (for three wkts, 20 overs) 95

FALL OF WKTS: 1-1, 2-27, 3-27.

BOWLING: Ahmed Hayat 6-0-33-2; Mohammad Sarfraz 5-0-24-1; Umair Hasan 1-0-6-0; Ashraf Bashir 4-0-11-0; Mohammad Nawaz 4-0-21-0.

RESULT: Gujranwala won by seven wickets.

UMPIRES: Z.I. Pasha and Aleem Dar.

MATCH REFEREE: Shafiq Ahmed.

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