Bilal foils Gujranwala

Published January 18, 2002

KARACHI, Jan 17: Bilal Khilji played a captain’s innings as Bahawalpur made a gallant attempt to win the Quaid Trophy tie against Gujranwala at Bahawalpur Stadium Thursday.

According to details available here, Bahawalpur ended on 389 for seven in their second innings, 33 runs short of victory, after resuming the day on 198 for three.

Bilal (46 overnight) remained undefeated on 150 off 303 balls in a stay of almost seven hours.

Scoreboard

GUJRANWALA (1st Innings) 143 (Rizwan Malik 100 not out; Murtaza Hussain 5-71).

BAHAWALPUR (1st Innings) 95 (Ghulam Murtaza 5-21).

GUJRANWALA (2nd Innings) 372-9 dec (Majid Saeed 128, Rizwan Malik 99, Tariq Javed 60 not out; Mohammad Zahid 6-106).

BAHAWALPUR (2nd Innings, overnight 198-3):

Hammad Tariq lbw b Murtaza 11

Mohammad Rashid c Khalid b Mubashir 0

Asif Iqbal c and b A. Rehman 51

Usman Tariq c Majid b A. Rehman 85

Bilal Khilji not out 150

Hasnain Raza lbw b Mubashir 31

Inam-ul-Haq c Majid b Sarfraz 5

Murtaza Hussain c Faisal b Mubashir 1

Mohammad Zahid not out 32

EXTRAS (B-12, LB-8, W-1, NB-2) 23

TOTAL (for seven wkts, 136 overs) 389

FALL OF WKTS: 1-5, 2-23, 3-133, 4-210, 5-296, 6-303, 7-310.

BOWLING: Mubashir Nazir 28-9-66-3; Ghulam Murtaza 25-4-90-1; Sarfraz Ahmed 39-12-69-2; Abdul Rehman 34-5-108-1; Majid Saeed 5-1-24-0l Tariq Javed 5-1-12-0.

UMPIRES: Shakeel Khan and Riazuddin.

MATCH REFEREE: Taslim Arif.

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