KARACHI, April 21: Test discard Asim Kamal was unlucky to miss a century by five runs as Pentangular Cup champions Habib Bank engineered a fine recovery to reach 315 against NWFP-Balochistan on the first day of the last-round fixture at the NBP Sports Complex here on Saturday.

The left-hander’s 95 saw the bankers made an excellent comeback after the first five wickets had gone for 95 runs once skipper Hasan Raza elected to bat first.

Apart from Asim, wicket-keeper Humayun Farhat (56) and Sajid Shah (44 not out) also made telling contributions.

By close of play, the combined regional side replied with 14 for one.

Scoreboard

HABIB BANK (1st Innings):

Imran Farhat run out 14

Riffatullah Mohmand c Fayyaz b Nasir 0

Aftab Khan c Fayyaz b Arun Lal 33

Hasan Raza b Nasir 0

Asim Kamal b Nasir 95

Salman Qadir run out 26

Humayun Farhat c Wajid b Jalat 56

Abdur Rehman c Ahmed Said b Riaz 10

Sajid Shah not out 44

Irfan Fazil run out 17

Fahad Masood run out 0

EXTRAS (B-5, LB-4, W-4, NB-7) 20

TOTAL (all out, 80.4 overs) 315

FALL OF WKTS: 1-3, 2-40, 3-40, 4-63, 5-95, 6-171, 7-205, 8-285, 9-312.

BOWLING: Nasir Jalil 19.4-3-89-3; Arun Lal 13-1-54-1; Dilawar Khan 14-2-56-0; Umar Javed 1-0-8-0; Jalat Khan 24-2-71-1; Riaz Kail 6-1-16-1; Mohammad Fayyaz 3-0-12-0.

NWFP-BALOCHISTAN (1st Innings):

Fawwad Khan lbw b Sajid 3

Wajid Ali not out 9

Mohammad Fayyaz not out 0

EXTRAS (B-1, W-1) 2

TOTAL (for one wkt, 7 overs) 14

FALL OF WKT: 1-9.

TO BAT: Umar Javed, Sabir Hussain, Riaz Kail, Arun Lal, Ahmed Said, Nasir Jalil, Jalat Khan, Dilawar Khan,

BOWLING (to-date): Fahad Masood 2-0-3-0; Irfan Fazil 2-0-5-0 (1w); Sajid Shah 2-1-4-1; Abdur Rehman 1-0-1-0.

UMPIRES: Siddique Khan and Ahmed Shahab.

MATCH REFEREE: Khateeb Rizwan.

OFFICIAL SCORER: Salman Hussain.