KARACHI, Jan 10: A fighting unbeaten 106 by Asmatullah gave Rest of NWFP an outside chance of victory against Peshawar on the third day of the Quaid Trophy fixture at Arbab Niaz Stadium Thursday.

According to details available from Peshawar, the home team were 45 for one after being set a target of 225.

Rest of NWFP added 76 to their overnight 155 for six with Asmatullah adding 52 to his Wednesday’s tally of 54.

Test speedster Fazle Akbar claimed four for 71 to take his match haul to nine for 102.

REST OF NWFP (1st Innings) 92 (Fazle Akbar 5-31).

PESHAWAR (1st Innings) 99 (Shakeel-ur-Rehman 6-44).

REST OF NWFP (2nd Innings, overnight 155-7):

Imran Hussain b Waqar 9

Ahmed Said b Fazle 25

Ibrahim Afridi run out 0

Asmatullah not out 106

Adnan Raees c Wasim b Fazle 0

Bilal Marwat c Javed b Arshad 26

Haji Badshah lbw b Fazle 14

Sajid Shah lbw b Kabir 9

Mohammad Aslam c Wasim b Fazle 5

Shakeel-ur-Rehman c Javed b Kabir 10

Umair Khan lbw b Kabir 5

EXTRAS (B-4, LB-8, NB-10) 22

TOTAL (all out, 88.1 overs) 231

FALL OF WKTS: 1-30, 2-30, 3-49, 4-49, 5-96, 6-122, 7-148, 8-158, 9-226.

BOWLING: Kabir Khan 21.1-4-45-2; Fazle Akbar 29-9-71-4; Waqar Ahmed 16-2-51-1; Arshad Khan 21-5-48-1; Wajahatullah Wasti 1-0-4-0.

PESHAWAR (2nd Innings):

Riffatullah not out 11

Javed Iqbal c Badshah b Shakeel 21

Yasir Hameed not out 5

EXTRAS (LB-2, NB-6) 8

TOTAL (for one wkt, 17 overs) 45

FALL OF WKT: 1-39.

BOWLING (to-date): Sajid Shah 9-3-21-0; Shakeel-ur-Rehman 8-0-22-1.