Hyderabad break drought at last

Published February 22, 2002

HYDERABAD, Feb 21: Hyderabad notched up their first win in the Quaid-i-Azam Trophy Grade-I Cricket Championship when they defeated Rest of Sindh by the narrow margin of two wickets at Niaz Stadium here Thursday.

Needing 16 runs after resuming their chase at the overnight score of 169 for seven, Hyderabad lost one more wicket this morning before finally getting there in what has been a very disappointing season for them.

Scoreboard

REST OF SINDH (1st Innings) 346 (Shahid Qambrani 105; Rizwan Ahmed 6-101).

HYDERABAD (1st Innings) 238 (Iqbal Shaikh 68, Javed Khan 50; Kashif Pervez 4-48, Rizwan Qureshi 4-62).

REST OF SINDH (2nd Innings) 76 (6-35, Irshad Notkani 4-41).

HYDERABAD (2nd Innings, overnight 169-7):

Akram Khan lbw b Hanif 8

Ayaz Taifi b Hanif 21

Ijaz Shah b Hanif 9

Rizwan Ahmed b Hanif 20

Iqbal Shaikh c Khalid b Rizwan 55

Imran Naseer run out 2

Javed Khan c Khalid b Rizwan 28

Irshad Notkani c Khalid b Rizwan 7

Raees Amjad not out 8

Hanif Malik not out 0

EXTRAS (B-8, LB-7, W-4, NB-8) 27

TOTAL (for eight wkts, 59.2 overs) 185

FALL OF WKTS: 1-33, 2-50, 3-71, 4-85, 5-136, 6-163, 7-168, 8-182.

BOWLING: Ali Raza 11-2-28-0; Kashif Pervez 10-3-35-0; Rizwan Qureshi 12.2-2-36-3; Naeem Ghauri 7-0-20-0; Hanif-ur-Rehman 19-6-51-4.

RESULT: Hyderabad won by two wickets.

UMPIRES: Islam Khan and Afzaal Ahmed.

MATCH REFEREE: Taslim Arif.

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