Convincing win for Hyderabad

Published November 19, 2005

KARACHI, Nov 18: Hyderabad beat Karachi Harbour by eight wickets in the Quaid-i-Azam Trophy Silver League match which ended on Friday. Set the target of 223, Hyderabad who finished the third day 40 without loss, made sure of victory in 62.4 overs.

Openers Faisal Athar (87) and Akram Khan (68 not out) laid the foundation of victory putting on 142 before being separated. Faisal struck 10 fours and a six while more sedate Akram hit six fours.

Scoreboard

KARACHI HARBOUR (1st innings) 171

KARACHI HARBOUR (2nd innings) 315

HYDERABAD (1st innings) 262

HYDERABAD (2nd innings) overnight 40-1

Faisal Athar c Fahad (sub) b Irfanuddin 87

Akram Khan not out 68

Hanifur Rehman lbw Fawad 42

Rizwan Ahmed not out 14

EXTRAS (b4, lb5, nb4) 13

TOTAL (for two wickets in 62.4 overs ) 224

FALL OF WKTS: 1-142, 2-203

BOWLING: Rajesh Ramesh 8-1-41-0; Malik Aftab 10-2-27-0; Atif Maqbool 7.4-0-27-1; Irfanuddin 12-3-49-1; Mohtashim Ali 1-0-12-0; Khalid Latif 5-24-1; Fawad Alam 19-6-35-1.

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