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RAWALPINDI, Sept 26: Honours were even on the first day of the National Junior (Under-19) Grade-I Cricket Championship semifinal between Rawalpindi and Lahore Blues Thursday at Rawalpindi Stadium.
Asked to bat first, Rawalpindi capitulated to the off-spin of Zeeshan Safeer who claimed six for 50 as the home side were bundled out for 210 in 69.3 overs.
But the hosts struck back through paceman Saad Altaf who snapped up three wickets to leave Lahore at 40 for three by the close of play in 18 overs.
Earlier, Usman Saeed fell four runs short of a half century, his innings of 46 taking him 79 balls as no other Rawalpindi batsman could make a big contribution, Zeeshan troubling them all with a teasing line and length.
RAWALPINDI (1st Innings):
Mohammad Shiraz b Khurram 17
Waqas Zafar c Adnan Akmal b Saeed 6
Zahid Mahmood run out 32
Shoaib Nasir b Wahab 38
Imran Khan b Zeeshan 29
Usman Saeed c Khurram b Zeeshan 46
Shahid Mahmood c and b Zeeshan 0
Adnan Naveed c Saeed b Zeeshan 14
Najaf Shah not out 4
Mazhar Malik c Wahab b Zeeshan 8
Saad Altaf b Zeeshan 0
EXTRAS (LB-4, W-2, NB-10) 16
TOTAL (all out, 69.3 overs) 210
FALL OF WKTS 1-23, 2-31, 3-103, 4-103, 5-155, 6-155, 7-191, 8-199, 9-207.
BOWLING: Khurram Irshad 20-5-30-1; Wahab Riaz 19-2-61-1; Mohammad Saeed 7-1-25-1; Zeeshan Safeer 13.3-1-50-6; Azhar Ali 9-1-33-0; Fahad-ul-Haq 1-0-7-0.
LAHORE BLUES (1st Innings):
Adnan Butt c Adnan b Saad 4
Fahad-ul-Haq not out 12
Azhar Ali b Saad 6
Adnan Raza b Saad 1
Wahab Riaz not out 2
EXTRAS (B-12, LB-1, W-2) 15
TOTAL (for three wkts, 18 overs) 40
FALL OF WKTS: 1-18, 2-27, 3-33.
BOWLING (to-date): Najaf Shah 9-5-14-0; Saad Altaf 9-1-13-3.
UMPIRES: Afzaal Ahmed and Jamil Kamran
MATCH REFEREE: Khateeb Rizwan.
