Islamabad emerge easy winners

Published October 20, 2005

ISLAMABAD, Oct 19: Raheel Majeed and Ashar Zaidi scored half-centuries as Islamabad thrashed Abbottabad by nine wickets in the Quaid-i-Azam Trophy Silver League match on Wednesday.

Having bowled out Abbottabad for a meagre 183 on the last day, Islamabad were home in 22.3 overs for the loss of only one wicket and picked up six points from the game. Both teams had forfeited their first innings in order to get a result after the first two days of the match were washed out.

Raheel (52 not out) and Ashar Zaidi (63) shared a 101-run stand for the opening wicket. Bilal Asad also shone with the bat, cracking an unbeaten 44.

Earlier, Abbottabad resuming their innings at the overnight 91-5 were restricted by five-wicket Saad Altaf.

Ali Naqvi was a stand out with an unbeaten 111 but his batting heroics went in vain.

SCOREBOARD

ABBOTTABAD (1st Innings), forfeited.

ISLAMABAD (1st Innings), forfeited.

ABBOTTABAD (2nd Innings, overnight 91-5):

Ahmed Said c Bazid b Bilal 12

Sajid Rasheed c Sufyan b Rao 3

Sajjad Ali c Bilal b Rauf 0

Ali Naqvi not out 111

Adnan Raees c Bazid b Saad 6

Almar Khan b Saad 3

Bilal Marwat c Bazid b Saad 7

Sajid Shah b Rauf 5

Fawad Ahmed c Sufyan b Saad 0

Mohammad Siddique lbw b Raheel 11

Shakeelur Rahman c Sufyan b Saad 1

EXTRAS (LB 5, W-8, NB-11) 24

TOTAL (all out, 51.5 overs) 183

FALL OF WKTS: 1-19, 2-20, 3-40, 4-50, 5-72, 6-99, 7-119, 8-121, 9-175.

BOWLING: Rao Iftikhar 14-4-36-1; Rauf Akbar 13-4-56-2; Saad Altaf 16.5-3-51-5; Bilal Asad 6-0-18-1; Raheel Majeed 2-0-17-1.

ISLAMABAD (2nd Innings):

Raheel Majeed not out 52

Ashar Zaidi b Fawad 63

Bilal Asad not out 44

EXTRAS (B-1, LB-4, W-1, NB-20) 26

TOTAL (for one wkt, 22.3 overs) 185

FALL OF WKT: 1-101.

BOWLING: Shakeelur Rehman 8-0-39-0; Sajid Shah 3-0-34-0; Mohammad Siddique 4.3-0-59-0; Fawad Ahmed 4-0-30-1; Ali Naqvi 3-0-18-0.

RESULT: Islamabad won by nine wickets.

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