NBP end season on winning note

Published November 12, 2001

KARACHI, Nov 11: Patron’s Trophy Grade-I champions National Bank crowned their golden season by crushing the luckless debutants Sui Gas by 153 runs at Iqbal Stadium, Faisalabad Sunday.

Sui Gas suffered their seventh defeat when they were bowled out for 139 after being set 293 on the last day, according to details available.

Scoreboard

NATIONAL BANK (1st Innings) 263 (Zahid Saeed 53, Naumanullah 50; Abdur Rauf 4-86).

SUI GAS (1st Innings) 227 (Abid Mahmood 78; Zahid Saeed 5-73, Mohammad Sami 4-39).

NATIONAL BANK (2nd Innings, overnight 174-7):

Khalid Latif c Ali Raza b A. Rauf 0

Hanif-ur-Rehman lbw b Wasim 0

Aurangzeb Afridi c Abid b A. Rauf 5

Qaiser Abbas b A. Rauf 61

Naumanullah c Ali Raza b Wasim 28

Imran Javed c Ali Raza b Shahid 25

Kamran Akmal c A. Hussain b A. Rauf 11

Naeem Khan c Ali Raza b Wasim 23

Zahid Saeed c Ali Raza b Shahid 16

Mohammad Sami not out 17

Mushtaq Ahmed c Tahir b Hafeez 31

EXTRAS (B-4, LB-20, W-6, NB-9) 39

TOTAL (all out, 81.4 overs) 256

FALL OF WKTS: 1-0, 2-7, 3-12, 4-66, 5-124, 6-143, 7-150, 8-198, 9-205.

BOWLING: Abdur Rauf 26-11-57-4; Wasim Khan 27-10-56-3; Shahid Khan 16-4-54-2; Hafiz Tahir Fareed 12-1-49-0; Mohammad Hafeez 0.4-0-16-1.

SUI GAS (2nd Innings):

Mohammad Hafeez c Hanif b Imran 11

Abid Mahmood lbw b Zahid 1

Shahid Khan lbw b Imran 26

Sohail Idrees c Kamran b Sami 1

Saleem Mughal b Sami 4

Zia-ur-Rehman b Sami 6

Ali Raza c Imran b Naeem 11

Abdur Rauf c Imran b Sami 0

Wasim Khan c Nauman b Naeem 32

Tahir Fareed c Kamran b Mushtaq 10

Ali Hussain not out 26

EXTRAS (B-5, LB-1, Nb-5) 11

TOTAL (all out, 42.2 overs) 139

FALL OF WKTS: 1-3, 2-47, 3-48, 4-48, 5-58, 6-59, 7-59, 8-89, 9-102.

BOWLING: Mohammad Sami 21-5-71-4; Zahid Saeed 5-0-29-1; Imran Javed 6-1-13-2; Naeem Khan 8-5-13-2; Mushtaq Ahmed 2.2-0-7-1.

RESULT: National Bank won by 153 runs.

UMPIRES: Siddique Khan and Iftikhar Malik.

MATCH REFEREE: Mussadeq Rasool.

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