KARACHI, Jan 4: Fawad Alam missed a century by six runs but Pakistan Customs is battling to avoid an innings defeat after being forced to follow-on in their four-day Patrons Cricket Trophy Grade-I match against HBL on Wednesday.

Customs were dismissed for 283 in their first innings after having resumed at 74 for three wickets. Required another 174 to avoid innings defeat, Customs were 49 for one wicket in their second innings.

Fawad was run out by Farhan for 94.

He hit nine fours and a six. Murtuza was unbeaten on 43 including five fours and a six.

Scoreboard

HBL (Ist innings) 506

Pakistan Customs (Ist innings) (74-3)

Kashif Siddique lbw b Shahid Nazir 1

Hasnain Abbas c Humayun b Irfan 22

Rashid Ali b Rehman 7

Azhar Shafique lbw b Fahad 32

Fawad Alam run out 94

Afsar Nawaz b Afridi 22

Ali Niazi c Fahad b Afridi 8

Murtuza Hussain not out 43

Jalat Khan b Rehman 2

Imran Ali c Irfan b Shahid Nazir 8

Fahad Khan b Shahid Nazir 1

Extras (B-15, W-5, NB-12) 43

Total (all out in 94 overs) 283

Fall of wktS: 1-10, 2-43, 3-43, 4-112, 5-155, 6-169, 7-247, 8-254, 9-276

Bowling: Shahid Nazir 16-3-33-3 (9nb), Fahad Masood 15-3-38-1, Irfan Fazil 17-1-61-1 (3nb), Abdur Rehman 24-8-51-2, Shahid Afridi 17-3-44-2, Imran Farhat 5-0-30-0

Pakistan Customs (2nd innings)

Kashif Siddique not out 21

Hasnain Abbas lbw Fahad 0

Azhar Shafique not out 19

Extras (for one wkt in 15 overs) 49

Fall of wktS: 1-6 Bowling: Shahid Nazir 4-1-16-0 (1nb), Fahad Masood 6-3-12-1, Irfan Fazil 1-0-10-0, Younus Khan 2-0-6-0 Umpires: Mian Aslam and Iqbal Butt.