Quetta finish on winning note

Published February 5, 2007

KARACHI, Feb 4: An unbeaten 90 by Umar Javed propelled to a tense two-wicket win against Hyderabad in the Quaid-i-Azam Trophy Silver League match at the Niaz Stadium in Hyderabad on Sunday.

Umar, who hit nine fours in his 180-ball knock, held the innings together as Quetta, who were defeated thrice in four games, chased a target of 229 for the loss of eight wickets to score their only victory this season.

Scoreboard

HYDERABAD (1st Innings) 193 (Hanif Malik 90; Zahoor Ahmed 4-39).

QUETTA (1st Innings) 290 (Shoaib Khan 105, Arun Lal 52; Farhan Ayub 6-76).

HYDERABAD (2nd Innings, overnight 274-8):

Faisal Athar c Shahzad b Jalat 117

Ghulam Murtaza c Shoaib b Zahoor 0

Pir Zulfiqar lbw b Arun Lal 35

Hanif-ur-Rehman b Jalat 54

Rizwan Ahmed lbw b Naseer 19

Shahid Qambrani c Shoaib b Jalat 4

Hanif Malik lbw b Jalat 4

Nauman Ali c Shahzad b Arun Lal 31

Farhan Ayub lbw b Faisal 5

Nasir Awais not out 34

Agha Shariq b Arun Lal 1

EXTRAS (B-11, LB-2, W-1, NB-7) 21

TOTAL (all out, 114 overs) 325

FALL OF WKTS: 1-6, 2-94, 3-178, 4-232, 5-237, 6-243, 7-247, 8-268, 9-317.

BOWLING: Faisal Irfan 22-9-58-1 (1w); Zahoor Ahmed 20-2-76-1; Arun Lal 16-6-39-3; Naseer Khan 21-0-62-1; Jalat Khan 23-2-40-4 (4nb); Umar Javed 9-1-24-0 (3nb).

QUETTA (2nd Innings):

Shoaib Khan lbw b Nasir 32

Sabir Hussain lbw b Farhan 16

Umar Javed not out 90

Abdul Hameed c sub b Nasir 3

Jalat Khan lbw b Nasir 12

Naseer Khan c Nasir b Rizwan 36

Arun Lal b Rizwan 2

Faisal Irfan b Rizwan 12

Manzoor Ahmed run out 2

Shahzad Tareen not out 5

EXTRAS (B-8, LB-3, W-5, NB-3) 19

TOTAL (for eight wkts, 72.4 overs) 229

FALL OF WKTS: 1-50, 2-74, 3-86, 4-118, 5-180, 6-184, 7-206, 8-214.

BOWLING: Farhan Ayub 15-3-25-1 (2w); Agha Shariq 4-0-14-0 (3w); Nasir Awais 29-3-90-3 (1nb); Pir Zulfiqar 7-1-26-0; Nauman Ali 6-1-16-0 (1nb); Rizwan Ahmed 11.4-0-47-3.

RESULT: Quetta won by two wickets.

UMPIRES: Afzaal Ahmed and Islam Khan.

MATCH REFEREE: Taslim Arif.

OFFICIAL SCORER: Arif Majeed Arif.