Gujranwala face defeat

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KARACHI, Feb 3: Karachi Blues were only five wickets away from achieving their second victory in the Quaid Trophy Grade-I cricket championship after Gujranwala lost 14 wickets at Jinnah Stadium in Gujranwala Sunday.

Scoreboard

KARACHI BLUES (1st Innings) 417-9 dec (Atiq-uz-Zaman 101 not out, Tariq Haroon 92, Maisam Hasnain 57; Abdul Rehman

5-120).

GUJRANWALA (1st Innings, overnight 25-1):

Ehtesham Younis lbw b Riaz 7

Basit Butt b Javed 22

Abdul Rehman c sub b Riaz 57

Atiq-ur-Rehman lbw b Javed 4

Imran Abbas b Rizwan 14

Zahid Fazal c Zeeshan b Ramesh 26

Tariq Javed lbw b Javed 6

Hafiz Khalid lbw b Ramesh 17

Mubashir Nazir c Maisam b Riaz 7

Sarfraz Ahmed c Tahir b Riaz 20

Nadeem Hussain not out 0

EXTRAS (B-8, LB-6, NB-14) 28

TOTAL (all out, 67.3 overs) 208

FALL OF WKTS: 1-18, 2-51, 3-55, 4-118, 5-126, 6-141, 7-178, 8-187, 9-208.

BOWLING: Rajesh Ramesh 15-5-32-2; Rizwan Saeed 11-2-31-0; Riaz Shaikh 18.3-3-60-4; Mohammad Javed 11-0-29-3; Tahir Khan 11-3-42-0; Tariq Haroon 1-1-0-0.

GUJRANWALA (2nd Innings):

Atiq-ur-Rehman c Farhan b Rizwan 1

Basit Butt c Farhan b Ramesh 8

Abdul Rehman lbw b Tahir 20

Tariq Javed c Asim b Ramesh 0

Imran Abbas lbw b Rizwan 8

Ehtesham Younis not out 14

Hafiz Khalid not out 0

EXTRAS (B-6, NB-7) 13

TOTAL (for five wkts, 22 overs) 64

FALL OF WKTS: 1-15, 2-16, 3-17, 4-37, 5-59.

BOWLING (to-date): Rajesh Ramesh

6-1-18-2; Rizwan Saeed 7-2-15-2; Riaz Shaikh 6-2-17-0; Tahir Khan 3-0-8-1.

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