Multan tie heading for draw

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LAHORE, Jan 20: An invaluable knock of 67 by Nauman Ali helped Hyderabad avoid the follow-on against Multan in the Quaid-i-Azam Trophy Silver League match at the Multan Cricket Stadium on Saturday.

After starting the third day at 201 for five, Hyderabad reached 339 in reply to Multan’s first-innings total of 422.

Multan increased the overall lead to 223 by making 140-5 in the second innings.

Scoreboard

MULTAN (1st Innings) 422 (Kashif Naveed 199; Farhan Ayub 5-111).

HYDERABAD (1st Innings, overnight 201-5):

Hanif-ur-Rehman c Atiq b Rauf 85

Aqeel Anjum b Rauf 6

Faisal Athar lbw b Rauf 69

Rizwan Ahmed lbw b Rauf 4

Shahid Qambrani c Usman b Kamran 6

Hanif Malik lbw b Azharullah 26

Nauman Ali c Saeed b Irshad 67

Nasir Awais c Atiq b Saeed 26

Farhan Ayub c Kashif b Rauf 2

Sufyan Ali b Kamran 11

Naeem-ur-Rehman not out 2

EXTRAS (B-28, LB-7) 35

TOTAL (all out, 88.2 overs) 339

FALL OF WKTS: 1-15, 2-154, 3-158, 4-171, 5-171, 6-263, 7-315, 8-317, 9-321.

BOWLING: Abdur Rauf 29-7-90-5; Mohammad Irshad 20-6-43-1; Kamran Hussain 16.2-0-76-2; Bilal Khilji 2-0-14-0; Azharullah 18-2-64-1; Saeed Anwar 3-0-17-1.

MULTAN (2nd Innings):

Saeed Anwar c Hanif b Sufyan 5

Usman Tariq run out 54

Azhar Shafiq c Faisal b Farhan 15

Kashif Naveed not out 31

Bilal Khilji b Sufyan 0

Kamran Hussain c Hanif b Sufyan 6

Naveed Ahmed not out 9

EXTRAS (B-1, LB-5, W-14) 20

TOTAL (for five wkts, 32 overs) 140

FALL OF WKTS: 1-34, 2-73, 3-111, 4-112, 5-122.

BOWLING (to-date): Farhan Ayub 13-1-48-1 (8w); Sufyan Ali 11-0-55-3 (6w); Faisal Athar 6-1-25-0; Hanif-ur-Rehman 2-0-6-0.

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