FAISALABAD, Oct 28: Wicket-keeper Aminur Rehman saved Karachi Urban from being bowled out cheaply by a fighting century (107) against Faisalabad at Iqbal Stadium on the first day of the four-day match on Friday.

Karachi were reeling at 29 for five wickets but Amin first with Ahmar Saeed (36) put on 113 runs for the sixth wicket and later with Tanvir Ahmed (57) put on 56 runs for the seventh wicket to enable the tourists to reach a respectable 255 in 77.4 overs.

Medium pacer Sami Ullah Niazi was the main destroyer of Karachi batting to finish with the figures of five wickets for 59 from 18 hostile overs.

Faisalabad had scored 14 without loss when the stumps were drawn for the day.

Scoreboard

Karachi Urban (first innings)

Khurram Manzoor c Salman b Sami 7

Shadab Kabir c Asif b Ahmed 1

M.Farrukh c Asif b Sami 0

Naumanullah c Salman b Sami 11

Farhan Adil c Imran b Sami 7

Ahmer Saeed lbw b Ahmed 36

Aminur Rehman c Hafeez b Sami 107

Tanvir Ahmed c Naved b Imran Khalid 57

Azam Hussain c&b Imran Khalid 1

Tabish Khan b Imran Khalid 4

Nasir Khan not out 4

Extras (b6, lb7, nb7) 20

Total (all out) 255

Fall of wkts: 1-4, 2-8, 3-11, 4-22, 5-29, 6-142, 7-198, 8-212, 9-240

Bowling: Sami Ullah Niazi 18-0-59-5; Ahmed Hayat 22-7-66-2; Asad Ali 9-2-27-0; Imran Khalid 17.4-1-53-3; M.Hafeez 10-0-36-0; Ijaz Ahmed Jr 1-0-1-0

Faisalabad (first innings)

Imran Ali not out 4

Imran Khan not out 5

Extras (b4, lb1) 5

Bowling: Nasir Khan 2-1-3-0; Tanvir Ahmed 2-0-6-0.