LAHORE, Dec 29: A gallant innings of 126 by Mohammad Zaman kept Faisalabad’s hopes alive in the Quaid Trophy Group-I match against National Bank at Iqbal Stadium in Faisalabad on Sunday.

Faisalabad, who had conceded 123-run first innings lead, recovered to make 281 in the second innings. Left-arm fast bowler Zahid Saeed claimed six for 77.

Pacer Moazzam Ali then took three wickets as the bankers reached 80 for four at stumps after being a target of 158.

Hosts Sargodha gained a lead of 88 runs against Servis Industries thanks to tailender Ahmed Hayat’s 84.

Servis lost four wickets for 31 with Ahmed again excelling to take three for 14. The visitors still require 58 runs to avert an innings defeat.

Atiq-ur-Rehman missed scoring a century by a solitary run as Wapda were in sight of victory against Lahore Blues in Okara.

Summarised scores of Group-I matches:

*At Iqbal Stadium, Faisalabad:

FAISALABAD 172 (Zeeshan Asif 59; Shabbir Ahmed 3-50, Imran Javed 3-23) and 281 (Mohammad Zaman 126, Farooq Iqbal 41; Zahid Saeed 6-77);

NATIONAL BANK 295 (Qaiser Abbas 87, Mushtaq Ahmed 62, Saeed Anwar 58; Farooq Iqbal 4-80, Moazzam Ali 3-106) and 80-4 (Moazzam Ali 3-32).

*At Sports Stadium, Sargodha:

SERVIS INDUSTRIES 286 (Sufian Munir 64, Bilal Khilji 58; Ahmed Hayat 3-84, Umair Hasan 3-68) and 31-4 (Ahmed Hayat 3-14);

SARGODHA 374 (Ahmed Hayat 84, Umair Hasan 46; Mohammad Irshad 4-82).

*At Gymkhana Ground, Okara:

WAPDA 243 (Hasan Adnan 100, Tariq Aziz 42; Mohammad Khalil 4-66, Sajid Ali 3-65) and 284-6 dec (Atiq-ur-Rehman 99, Rizwan Malik 59);

LAHORE BLUES 180 (Latif Gohar 48; Rana Naveed-ul-Hasan 5-49) and 25-5 (Sarfraz Ahmed 3-9).