Fine century by Zulqarnain

Published October 25, 2005

KARACHI, Oct 24: Wicket-keeper Zulqarnain Haider scored a fine unbeaten century as Lahore Ravi took first innings lead against Hyderabad in the Quaid-i-Azam Trophy Silver League fixture at the Niaz Stadium in Hyderabad on Monday.

Zulqarnain hammered 105 to help Lahore Ravi post 466 for five in reply to the hosts’ 436 on the penultimate day of the match.

Skipper Kashif Siddique, 78 overnight, also reached three figures before he was out for 105. Former international Imran Abbas contributed 95.

SCOREBOARD

HYDERABAD (1st Innings) 436 (Faisal Athar 171, Hanifur Rahman 123, Rizwan Ahmed 96; Farhan Rasheed 4-118).

LAHORE RAVI (1st Innings, overnight 160-1):

Kashif Siddique c Rizwan b Shoaib 105

Shahnawaz Malik c H. Malik b Kashif 9

Rizwan Ahmed c Rizwan b Kashif 78

Imran Abbas b Farhan 95

Salman Qadir c Rizwan b Shoaib 12

Zulqarnain Haider not out 105

Ali Azmat not out 41

EXTRAS (B-2, LB-1, NB-18) 21

TOTAL (for five wkts, 122 overs) 466

FALL OF WKTS: 1-12, 2-177, 3-211, 4-246, 5-393.

TO BAT: Wasim Khan, Wahab Riaz, Shahzad Butt, Farhan Rasheed.

BOWLING (to-date): Kashif Raza 21-5-54-2; Farhan Ayub 18-4-72-1; Raees Amjad 16-1-72-0; Shoaib Leghari 36-2-128-2; Hanifur Rahman 4-0-23-0; Faisal Athar 8-0-60-0; Shahid Qambrani 5-0-13-0; Rizwan Ahmed 14-2-41-0.

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