Fine spells by Naeem, Imran

Published November 16, 2005

By Our Sports Reporter


KARACHI, Nov 15: Bowlers dominated the opening day’s proceedings of the Quaid-i-Azam Trophy Silver League match between Karachi Harbour (KH) and Hyderabad as 13 wickets fell on Tuesday. When stumps were drawn, Hyerabad having restricted KH to 171 were 72 for three wickets, still need 99 runs with seven wickets in hand to gain first innings lead.

Only Mohtasim Ali (51) batted with any degree against Hyderabad’s Naeemur Rehman and Imran Ali ended with figures of five for 45 and four for 78.

Scoreboard

KARACHI HARBOUR

Agha Sabir c Faisal b Imran 17

Khalid Latif c Rizwan b Imran 0

Mohtasim Ali c Shoaib b Naeem 51

Faisal Iqbal c Haneef b Naeem 1

Saeed bin Nasir b Naeem 27

Fawad Alam c Rizwan b Shahid 11

Moin Khan c Haneef b Naeem 17

Rajesh Ramesh c Shoaib b Imran 8

Atif Maqbool lbw b Imran 9

Irfanuddin lbw b Naeem 0

Malik Aftab not out 4

EXTRAS (4b, 8lb,1w, 13nb) 26

TOTAL (All out in 57.5 overs) 171

Fall of wkts: 1-3, 2-38,3-39,4-95,5-123,6-126,7-153,8-157, 9-158, 10-171

BOWLING: Kashif Raza 12-4-21-0; Imran Ali 22.5-1-78-4; Naeemur Rehman 15-4-45-5; Shoaib Laghari 5-1-7-0; Hanifur Rehman 2-0-4-0; Shahid Qambrani 1-0-4-1

HYDERABAD

Faisal Athar c Agha Sabir b M.Aftab 41

Akram Khan c Faisal b Atif 12

Hanifur Rehman lbw b M.Aftab 9

Hanif Malik not out 4

Aqeel Anjum not out 0

EXTRAS (b4,lb2) 6

TOTAL (for three wickets) 72

Fall of wkts: 1-58, 2-64-3-68

BOWLING: Rajesh Ramesh 5-1-9-0 Malik Aftab 11-1-39-2 Atif Maqbool 8-3-18-1.

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