Faisalabad facing defeat

Published February 21, 2002

KARACHI, Feb 20: Faisalabad were battling for survival after being forced to follow-on on the penultimate day of their Quaid Trophy Grade-I tie against Gujranwala at Jinnah Stadium in Gujranwala Wednesday.

Faisalabad, resuming at 16 for no wicket, were bundled out for 181 in reply to the home side’s massive first innings score of 491 for eight declared.

By stumps, the visitors were reeling at 38 for two in their second innings.

Scoreboard

GUJRANWALA (1st Innings) 491-8 dec (Imran Abbas 165, Asim Munir 131, Rizwan Malik 61).

FAISALABAD (1st Innings, overnight 16-0):

Mohammad Salman lbw b Mubashir 7

Asif Hussain c Rizwan b Mubashir 23

Sami-ul-Haq lbw b Adnan 1

Zahoor Elahi lbw b Adnan 29

M. Ramzan c Kamran b A. Rehman 41

Sohail Nazir c Asim b Adnan 1

Nadeem Afzal b A. Rehman 13

Mohammad Maqsood lbw b A. Rehman 1

Mohammad Asif c and b A. Rehman 3

Yasir Mushtaq not out 50

Moazzam Ali b Adnan 3

EXTRAS (B-4, LB-1, NB-4) 9

TOTAL (all out, 78.1 overs) 181

FALL OF WKTS: 1-30, 2-31, 3-39, 4-77, 5-79, 6-123, 7-124, 8-125, 9-144.

BOWLING: Mubashir Nazir 22-6-50-2; Adnan Farooq 24.1-8-47-4; Abdul Rehman 27-13-71-4; Kamran Younis 5-1-8-0.

FAISALABAD (2nd Innings):

Asif Hussain not out 28

M. Salman c Kamran b Mubashir 0

Sami-ul-Haq b Adnan 0

Mohammad Maqsood not out 4

EXTRAS 0

TOTAL (for two wkts, 11 overs) 38

FALL OF WKTS: 1-10, 2-19.

BOWLING (to-date): Mubashir Nazir 5-0-23-1; Adnan Farooq 5-1-10-1; Abdul Rehman 1-1-0-0.

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