Tame draw

Published December 1, 2005

LAHORE, Nov 30: Sialkot and Rawalpindi drew their Quaid-i-Azam Trophy Gold League match at Jinnah Stadium in Sialkot on Wednesday. Rawalpindi made no attempt to chase a daunting target of 360 as they batted circumspectly to finish at 194 for four in the second innings.

Medium-pacer Tahir Mughal ended up with three for 63 to return an impressive match bag of 10 for 122.

Scoreboard

SIALKOT (1st Innings) 245.

RAWALPINDI (1st Innings) 115 (Tahir Mughal 7-59).

SIALKOT (2nd Innings, overnight 134-5):

Imran Nazir c Asim b Yasir 2

Faisal Naved b Rizwan 21

Bilal Hussain lbw b Yasir 8

Atiqur Rahman run out 6

Shahid Yousuf b Rizwan 12

Mansoor Amjad c Sajid b Rizwan 74

Hafiz Khalid run out 50

Shahzad Malik lbw b Rizwan 17

Tahir Mughal c Wasim b Rizwan 0

Abdur Rahman run out 6

Sarfraz Ahmed not out 0

EXTRAS (B-13, LB-7, NB-13) 33

TOTAL (all out, 71.2 overs) 229

FALL OF WKTS: 1-2, 2-12, 3-32, 4-55, 5-60, 6-157, 7-216, 8-218, 9-225.

BOWLING: Yasir Arafat 18-2-49-2; Najaf Shah 21-2-56-0; Sohail Tanvir 9-1-31-0; Rizwan Akbar 16.2-3-57-5; Babar Naeem 7-1-16-0.

RAWALPINDI (2nd Innings):

Mohammad Wasim b Tahir 26

Babar Naeem c Khalid b Tahir 12

Pervez Aziz c Khalid b Tahir 52

Usman Saeed retired hurt 7

Naveed Qureshi not out 65

Asim Butt lbw b Sarfraz 3

Yasir Arafat not out 27

EXTRAS (LB-2) 2

TOTAL (for four wkts, 48 overs) 194

FALL OF WKTS: 1-34, 2-41, 3-110, 4-120.

BOWLING: Sarfraz Ahmed 18-0-61-1; Tahir Mughal 14-1-63-3; Abdur Rahman 12-2-48-0; Imran Nazir 3-0-12-0; Shahzad Malik 1-0-8-0.

RESULT: Match drawn.

UMPIRES: Shakeel Khan and Iftikhar Malik.

MATCH REFEREE: Saadat Ali.

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