Last pair helps HBL reach 489

Published October 11, 2001

KARACHI, Oct 10: A last wicket partnership of 70 between Sajid Shah and Danish Kaneria enabled Habib Bank reach a mammoth 489 against Allied Bank on the second day of the four-day Patron’s Trophy Grade-I clash at Sheikhupura Stadium Wednesday.

Sajid, who made an unbeaten 36 off 74 balls), and Test leg-spinner Kaneria (a career-best 42 off 45 balls in 56 minutes) came together after the ninth wicket had gone at 419, says a message here.

Allied Bank, however, made a decent reply by reaching 111 for two in their first innings at draw of stumps with Naved (22) and Ijaz Ahmed Jr (15) batting in the unbroken third stand worth 41 runs.

Earlier, Habib Bank’s overnight pair Hasan Raza (50) and Farhan Adil (24) went on to make 74 and 47 respectively while putting on 111 for the sixth wicket before both fell to Aamir Nazir. The former Test medium-pacer finished with four for 155 in 36 overs.

Scoreboard

HABIB BANK (1st Innings, overnight 348-5):

Imran Farhat c Humayun b Aqib 160

Taufiq Umer b Arshad 68

Saleem Elahi c Rashid b Ata 4

Younis Khan c Humayun b A. Nazir 15

Hasan Raza c Rashid b An Nazir 74

Shahid Afridi c Ijaz Jr b A. Nazir 14

Farhan Adil c Ata b A. Nazir 47

Irfan Fazil c Rashid b Aqib 4

Sajid Shah not out 36

Kabir Khan b Usman 6

Danish Kaneria b Arshad 42

EXTRAS (LB-8, NB-11) 19

TOTAL (all out, 127.5 overs) 489

FALL OF WKTS: 1-199, 2-225, 3-258, 4-263, 5-280, 6-391, 7-400, 8-400, 9-419.

BOWLING: Ata-ur-Rehman 21-2-68-1; Aamir Nazir 36-5-155-4; Aqib Javed 25-4-82-2; Taimur Khan 9-3-18-0; Arshad Khan 28.5-2-128-2; Mohammad Nawaz 3-0-16-0; Usman Tariq 5-0-14-1.

ALLIED BANK (1st Innings):

Mohammad Nawaz b Kaneria 25

Usman Tariq c Hasan b Irfan 30

Naved Latif not out 22

Ijaz Ahmed Jr not out 15

EXTRAS (B-6, LB-5, NB-8) 19

TOTAL (for two wkts, 48 overs) 111

FALL OF WKTS: 1-47, 2-70.

TO BAT: Aamir Hanif, Taimur Khan, Humayun Farhat, Ata-ur-Rehman, Aqib Javed, Aamir Nazir.

BOWLING (to-date): Kabir Khan 7-2-18-0; Irfan Fazil 11-3-30-1; Sajid Shah 9-3-13-0; Shahid Afridi 7-3-10-0; Younis Khan 1-1-0-0.

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