Tailenders defy Lahore Blues

Published January 4, 2003

LAHORE, Jan 3: Tailenders batted with responsibility to help Servis Industries reach 258 in their first innings against Lahore Blues in the Quaid-i-Azam Trophy Group-I at Gaddafi Stadium on Friday.

At stumps, Lahore Blues were 32 for two.

Earlier, Servis’ last pair of Nafees Ahmed (33 not out) and Imran Adil (34) put on 63 after the visitors resumed at 142 for four.

Sufian Munir, who was forced to retire hurt on Thursday after making 51, scored 67. Rizwan Ahmed, who was hit on the nose by Mohammad Khalil was unable to resume his innings.

Khalil took one more wicket this morning to finish with five for 104.

In other matches, an unbeaten 117 by Mohammad Zaman and knock of 55 by Tauqir Hussain gave Faisalabad a lead of 215 runs lead over Sargodha.

Replying to Sargodha’s first innings score of 122, Faisalabad made 337 for seven with Zaman and Tauqir adding 116 for the seventh-wicket.

At Lahore Country Club, National Bank struggled to 104 for seven in 35 overs against Wapda after no play was possible on Thursday because of fog.

Scoreboard

SERVIS INDUSTRIES (1st Innings, overnight 142-4):

Rizwan Ahmed retired hurt 31

Hammad Tariq c Sohail b Khalil 5

Bilal Khilji c Sohail b Khalil 5

Sufian Munir c Ali Raza b Sajid 67

Rehan Rafiq c Ali Raza b Khalil 5

Farhan Asghar lbw b Khalil 23

Asim Butt c Manzoor b Khalil 3

Mohammad Asif c Latif b Sajid 22

Nafees Ahmed not out 33

Javed Butt run out 2

Imran Adil b Khurram 34

EXTRAS (B-9, LB-4, W-7, NB-2) 22

TOTAL (all out, 74.3 overs) 258

FALL OF WKTS: 1-14, 2-34, 3-104, 4-116, 5-146, 6-173, 7-190, 8-195, 9-258.

BOWLING: Sajid Ali 22-6-60-2; Mohammad Khalil 36-8-104-5; Khurram Irshad 9.5-0-43-1; Manzoor Elahi 4-2-8-0; Ali Hussain 2-0-10-0; Sohail Idrees 1-0-9-0.

LAHORE BLUES (1st Innings):

Musharraf Ali lbw b Imran 0

Ali Hussain not out 10

Amjad Ali c sub b Nafees 20

Asim Ijaz not out 0

EXTRAS (NB-2) 2

TOTAL (for two wkts, 17 overs) 32

FALL OF WKTS: 1-0, 2-30.

BOWLING (to-date): Imran Adil 6-1-8-1; Asim Butt 4-0-13-0; Javed Butt 4-1-10-0; Bilal Khilji 2-1-1-0; Nafees Ahmed 1-1-0-1.

Summarised scores of other Group-I matches:

*At Iqbal Stadium, Faisalabad:

SARGODHA 122 (Farooq Iqbal 4-44,  Adnan Rasool 3-53);

FAISALABAD 337-7 (Mohammad Zaman 117 not out, Tauqir Hussain 55; Mohammad Hafeez 4-61).

*At Lahore Country Club, Muridke:

NATIONAL BANK 104-7 (Sarfraz Ahmed 4-32) v WAPDA.

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