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RAWALPINDI, Jan 19: A maiden century by upcoming all-rounder Sohail Tanvir engineered a magnificent comeback by Rawalpindi in their Quaid-i-Azam Trophy Gold League fixture against Sialkot at the Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium on Friday.
The left-handed Sohail hammered 124 and Usman Saeed 88 to steer Rawalpindi to a healthy first-innings total of 324. The seventh-wicket pair came together to put on 150 after the hosts had slipped to 105-6 having resumed at the overnight score of 47-4.
Sohail belted 11 fours and two sixes in his 173-ball knock while Usman dispatched a dozen balls to the fence, facing 180 deliveries altogether.
Kashif Raza captured 5-62 and fellow paceman Asim Butt took 3-132. Left-arm paceman Sarfraz Ahmed got 2-52.
Sialkot finished the day on 27-2 in reply.
Scoreboard
RAWALPINDI (1st Innings, overnight 47-4):
Sohail Nasir b Asim 15
Babar Naeem c Shahid b Kashif 0
Tahir Rauf c Atiq b Kashif 12
Naveed Qureshi c Khalid b Asim 6
Mohammad Wasim b Kashif 33
Usman Saeed c Khalid b Sarfraz 88
Yasir Arafat c Khalid b Sarfraz 14
Sohail Tanvir c Khalid b Kashif 124
Sajid Mahmood lbw b Asim 14
Najaf Shah c and Kashif 4
Akhtar Ayub not out 1
EXTRAS (B-9, LB-3, NB-1) 13
TOTAL (all out, 95.1 overs) 324
FALL OF WKTS: 1-0, 2-28, 3-34, 4-37, 5-79, 6-105, 7-255, 8-292, 9-305.
BOWLING: Sarfraz Ahmed 23-6-52-2; Kashif Raza 28.1-9-62-5; Asim Butt 26-1-132-3; Abdur Rehman 10-1-31-0; Mansoor Amjad 7-0-34-0 (1nb); Shahid Yousuf 1-0-1-0.
SIALKOT (1st Innings):
Atiq-ur-Rehman b Yasir 0
Shahid Yousuf not out 19
Mansoor Amjad c Wasim b Yasir 0
Ijaz Ahmed not out 5
EXTRAS (NB-3) 3
TOTAL (for two wkts, 6.1 overs) 27
FALL OF WKTS: 1-2, 2-2.
TO BAT: Shahzad Malik, Hafiz Khalid, Imran Nazir, Abdur Rehman, Sarfraz Ahmed, Kashif Raza, Asim Butt.
BOWLING (to-date): Yasir Arafat 3.1-0-17-2 (3nb); Najaf Shah 3-1-10-0.—Agencies
