LAHORE, Oct 12: An enterprising, unbeaten knock of 106 by Test batsman Faisal Iqbal in PIA’s second innings was salient feature of the Patron’s Trophy Cricket Tournament Grade I match  against Khan Research Laboratories (KRL) which petered into a tame draw at the LCCA ground Friday.

PIA’s skipper Moin Khan declared the second innings at 293 for five. Seeing no possibility of a result, the KRL side did not play the second innings and the two umpires Athar Zaidi and Waqar Mughal abandoned the match as a draw.

Resuming the first innings at 466 for nine, Shoaib Akhtar and Jaffar Nazir took the total to 487. PIA had scored 383 in the first innings and KRL took a lead of 104 runs.

Jaffar was caught by Faisal off Fazle Akbar and that ended the KRL’s last wicket partnership of 85 runs. Both stayed together at the crease for 59 minutes. Shoaib remained not out at 59. He hit five boundaries, occupying the crease for 149 minutes.

During PIA’s second innings, Faisal was involved in all the three productive partnerships. Faisal and Sohail Jaffar (49 in 200 minutes with 5 fours) added 66 runs for the third wicket stand in 89 minutes. Thereafter, Faisal found a good partner in Yousuf Youhana (42 in 50 minutes with 8 boundaries) as both added 58 in 50 minutes. Faisal and skipper Moin Khan (35 in 59 minutes with 4 fours) put on 85 for the unbroken sixth wicket stand in just 59 minutes.

Faisal hit two huge sixes and 11 elegant boundaries in the best knock of the last day.

Scoreboard

PIA (1st Innings) 383 (Moin Khan 119, Asif Mujtaba 63, Abdur Razzaq 51; Jafar Nazir 4-91).

KRL (Ist Innings, overnight 466-9):

Mohammad Ramazan c sub b Fazle 49

Ali Naqvi run out 81

Mohammad Wasim b Fazle 53

Misbah-ul-Haq lbw b Razzaq 13

Intikhab Alam c Fazle b Razzaq 6

Saeed Bin Nasir lbw b Fazle 95

Zulfiqar Jan b Razzaq 25

Yasir Arafat b Aizaz 25

Shoaib Akhtar not out 59

Shakeel Ahmad c Faisal b Razzaq 2

Jaffar Nazir c Faisal b Fazle 19

EXTRAS (b 32, lb 5, w 4, nb 19) 60

TOTAL (All out, 128 overs) 487

FALL OF WIKTS: 1-110, 2-218, 3-220, 4-233, 5-305, 6-311, 7-383, 8-405, 9-428, 10-487.

BOWLING: Fazle Akbar 37-2-103-4, Abdur Razzaq 37-6-126-4 (2 nb), Muhammad Zahid Jr 29-5-118-0 9 (13 nb), Aizaz Cheema 19-0-83-1 (2 nb, 2 w), Sohail Jaffar 2-0-14-0, Ghulam Ali 4-0-6-0.

PIA (2nd Innings)

Ghulam Ali c Zulfiqar b Yasir 7

Sohail Jaffar lbw b Shakeel Ahmad 49

Yasir Hameed c Jafar b Yasir 29

Faisal Iqbal not out 106

Yousuf Youhana c Misbah b Shakeel 42

Abdur Razzaq st Zulfiqar b Intikhab 9

Moin Khan not out 35

EXTRAS (b 7, lb 5, nb 4) 16

TOTAL (For 5 declared, 81 overs) 293

FALL OF WKTS: 1-29-2-65, 3-131, 4-189, 5-208.

BOWLING: Shoaib Akhtar 4-2-7-0, Jaffar Nazir 14-2-34-0 (1 nb), Yasir Arafat 20-3-73-2 (3 nb), Mohammad Ramazan 10-5-19-0, Shakeel Ahmad 25-4-93-2, Intikhab Alam 6-0-38-1, Saeed Bin Nasir 2-0-17-0.

Result: Match drawn.

POINTS: KRL 3, PIA 0

Umpires: Athar Zaidi and Waqar Mughal.

Referee: Ali Zia.