ISLAMABAD, Nov 17: Islamabad tightened their grip on their Quaid- i-Azam Trophy Silver League match against Quetta on Thursday and had an overall lead of 275 runs at the Diamond Cricket Ground.

After gaining an 84-run first innings lead by dismissing Quetta for 255 with Zohaib Ahmed taking 5-62, the home side were 191 for seven wickets at the close of third day’s play.

Ameer Khan topscored with 81 in a fine batting display but Islamabad were restricted by Azharullah who captured 4-73.

Scoreboard

ISLAMABAD (Ist Innings 339) (Asher Zaidi 179, Raheel Majeed 52, Azharullah 4-95)

Quetta (Ist Innings) overnight 241-8

Shoaib Khan lbw b Zohaib 99

Hameedullah lbw b Zohaib 8

Sabir Hussain b Zohaib 10

Adil Nasar c Asher b Zohaib 5

Naseem Khan lbw b Asher 55

Jalat Khan lbw b Asher 10

Aroon Lal c Rao b Zohaib 30

Naseer Khan b Raheel 7

Abdul Rehman c & b Rao 2

Omer Jamal not out 10

Azharullah c Adnan b Rao 5

EXTRAS (LB-5, W-7, NB-2) 14

TOTAL (all out in 91 overs) 255

FALL OF WKTS: 1-12, 2-40, 3-74, 4-176, 5-194, 6-204, 7-221, 8-238 9-242

BOWLING: Rao Iftikhar 26-15-37-2, Zohaib Ahmed 20-5-62-5, Adnan Suleman 5-1-20-0, Fakhir Hussain 5-1-33-0, Bilal Asad 8-1-38-0, Asher Zaidi 21-5-37-2, Raheel Majeed 6-0-23-1

ISLAMABAD (2nd Innings)

Raheel Majeed c Naseem b Azharullah 14

Afaq Raheem c Adil b Azharullah 8

Asher Zaidi c Hamid b Rehman 3

Ameer Khan c Hamid b Jalat 81

Bilal Asad lbw Azharullah 12

Sohaib Faisal lbw b Azharullah 9

Rao Iftikhar c Aroon b Jalat 12

Zohaib Ahmed not out 23

Noman Sadiq not out 7

EXTRAS (B-5, LB-13, W-1, NB-3) 22

TOTAL (for 7 wkts, 70 overs) 191

FALL OF WKTS: 1-18, 2-27, 3-27, 4-55, 5-89, 6-147, 7-158

BOWLING: Azharullah 21-3-73-4, Abdul Rehman 11-3-32-1, Aroon Lal 22-10-43-0, Jalat Khan 16-7-25-2.