Karachi ‘W’ suffer first defeat

Published February 5, 2002

KARACHI, Feb 4: Bahawalpur handed Karachi Whites their first defeat in the Quaid Trophy Grade-I championship with an impressive innings and two-run win at Bahawalpur Stadium Monday.

According to details available here, Karachi Whites were dismissed for 298 in their second innings after resuming at the overnight score of 241 for six.

Scoreboard

KARACHI WHITES (1st Innings) 184 (Ghulam Ali 60; Maqbool Hussain 5-52, Murtaza Hussain 5-80).

BAHAWALPUR (1st Innings) 484-9 dec (Rehan Rafiq 162 not out, Faisal Elahi 96, Usman Tariq 82; Adnan Malik 4-103).

KARACHI WHITES (2nd Innings, overnight 241-6):

Ghulam Ali c Maqbool b Bilal 5

Saif Ashraf c Hammad b Faisal 61

Saeed bin Nasir lbw b Faisal 43

Hasan Raza c Inam b Usman 38

Mohammad Masroor c Aamir b Usman 66

Imran Javed lbw b Usman 15

Ahmed Zeeshan Malik b Tahir 27

Arif Mahmood c Maqbool b Tahir 28

Tanvir Ahmed c Murtaza b Tahir 1

Adnan Malik c Inam b Murtaza 2

Atif Maqbool not out 0

EXTRAS (B-10, LB-2) 12

TOTAL (all out, 90.3 overs) 298

FALL OF WKTS: 1-5, 2-80, 3-132, 4-192, 5-236, 6-241, 7-281, 8-287, 9-294.

BOWLING: Tahir Maqsood 15.3-2-57-3; Bilal Khilji 7-2-16-1; Murtaza Hussain 24-3-76-1; Faisal Elahi 19-3-60-2; Maqbool Hussain 13-5-27-0; Usman Tariq 12-1-50-3.

RESULT: Bahawalpur won by an innings and two runs.

UMPIRES: Mian Aslam and Nadeem Ghauri.

MATCH REFEREE: Raees Ahmed.

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