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KARACHI, March 16: Karachi Blues kept their hopes of reaching the final rounds of the National One-day Cricket Championship alive after scoring a convincing 69-run victory over Pool ‘B’ rivals Pak PWD at Lahore Country Club in Muridke Saturday.
Useful contributions from most of batsmen helped the Blues reach 262 for nine after being put into bat.
Bazid Khan, the PWD skipper, lashed 91 off 98 deliveries but side crumbled to 193 all out in 43.5 overs. Bazid’s fine innings contained 11 hits to the fence.
KARACHI BLUES:
Tariq Haroon b Tanvir 45
Zahid Ghauri run out 31
Atif Ali Zaidi c Saad b Fahim Sr 24
Shahid Dawood b Riaz 27
Jaffar Qureshi c Bilal b Riaz 14
Mansoor Baig run out 28
Mansoor Khan c Iqbal Imam b Riaz 6
Imranullah c Tanvir b Riaz 24
Haaris Ayaz c Bazid b Nadeem 8
Amin-ur-Rehman not out 21
Ijaz Ahmed not out 6
EXTRAS (B-1, LB-4, W-22, NB-1) 28
TOTAL (for nine wkts, 50 overs) 262
FALL OF WKTS: 1-82, 2-99, 3-150, 4-152, 5-168, 6-180, 7-216, 8-227, 9-249.
BOWLING: Nadeem Iqbal 8-0-50-1; Rajesh Ramesh 5-0-26-0; Bilal Asad 8-0-39-0; Tanvir Ahmed 9-0-47-1; Fahim Ahmed Sr 10-0-43-1; Riaz Shaikh 10-0-52-4.
PAK PWD:
Bazid Khan c and b Jaffar 91
Imran Khan c and b Tariq 6
Bilal Asad c Ijaz b Haaris 9
Afsar Nawaz c Ijaz b Mansoor Khan 20
Saad Wasim st Amin b Mansoor Khan 1
Iqbal Imam run out 5
Riaz Shaikh lbw b Haaris 3
Fahim Ahmed Sr not out 25
Tanvir Ahmed c Mansoor Khan b Jaffar 1
Rajesh Ramesh run out 10
Nadeem Iqbal c and b Jaffar 3
EXTRAS (LB-1, W-14, NB-4) 19
TOTAL (all out, 43.5 overs) 193
FALL OF WKTS: 1-45, 2-82, 3-135, 4-139, 5-148, 6-149, 7-152, 8-155, 9-184.
BOWLING: Tariq Haroon 5-0-22-1; Imranullah 5-0-42-0; Haaris Ayaz 8-1-36-2; Ijaz Ahmed 7-0-41-0; Mansoor Khan 9-0-24-2; Jaffar Qureshi 9.5-0-27-3.
RESULT: Karachi Blues won by 69 runs.
UMPIRES: Aleem Dar and Ehtesham-ul-Haq.
MATCH REFEREE: Azmat Rana.
Results of other Pool ‘B’ matches:
*National Bank beat Rest of Balochistan by 199 runs at Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore
NATIONAL BANK 321-8 in 50 overs (Kamran Akmal 81, Khalid Latif 73, Sajid Ali 64, Naumanullah 56; Mohtashim Ali 3-58, Mian Nafees 2-51);
REST OF BALOCHISTAN 122 in 27.5 overs (Ali Ahmed 37, Mohtashim Ali 22 not out, Naseer Khan 20; Mushtaq Ahmed 3-17, Shabbir Ahmed 2-33, Mohammad Sami 2-33).
*Sui Gas beat Sialkot by three wickets at Saga Cricket Ground, Sialkot
SIALKOT 254-9 in 50 overs (Shakeel Ansar 80 not out, Faisal Khan 46, Shaiman 26, Ahmed Mahmood 23, Shahid Yousuf 20; Shahid Khan 2-40, Abdur Rauf 2-42, Mohammad Hussain 2-56, Wasim Khan 2-65);
SUI GAS 255-7 in 47.5 overs (Kamran Sajid 105, Ali Raza 40 not out, Zia-ur-Rehman 38; Mansoor Amjad 2-26).
