KARACHI, Oct 21: Current leaders National Bank lost ground in their bid to win the Patron’s Trophy Grade-I title when KRL restricted them to 204 in their first innings at Saga Ground, Sialkot Sunday.
KRL, in reply, closed the day on 34 without loss with openers Mohammad Ramzan (14) and skipper Ali Naqvi (15) seeing off pacers Mohammad Sami and Shabbir Ahmed, according to details available here.
National Bank, who were asked to bat first, lost the last seven wickets for the addition of just 93 runs as medium-pacers Jaffar Nazir and Mohammad Asif shared six wickets between them.
Fringe batsman Naumanullah compiled 59 off 103 balls in 143 minutes. There was only one other score of 20 in the innings, from wicket-keeper Kamran Akmal.
NATIONAL BANK (1st Innings):
Shahid Anwar c Misbah b Asif 14
Imran Nazir b Jaffar 6
Naumanullah b Asif 59
Qaiser Abbas c Yasir b John 17
Sajid Ali c John b Yasir 19
Mohammad Javed c Wasim b Asif 9
Kamran Akmal lbw b Jaffar 20
Zahid Saeed b Ali Naqvi 15
Shabbir Ahmed c Wasim b Jaffar 12
Mushtaq Ahmed c Misbah b Ali Naqvi 6
Mohammad Sami not out 0
EXTRAS (B-4, LB-12, W-8, NB-3) 27
TOTAL (all out, 67 overs) 204
FALL OF WKTS: 1-11, 2-25, 3-93, 4-111, 5-135, 6-143, 7-184, 8-186, 9-198.
BOWLING: Jaffar Nazir 17-2-60-3; Stephen John 14-3-41-1; Mohammad Asif 14-5-27-3; Yasir Arafat 11-1-42-1; Ali Naqvi 11-6-18-2.
KRL (1st Innings):
Ali Naqvi not out 15
Mohammad Ramzan not out 14
EXTRAS (B-5) 5
TOTAL (for no wkt, 11 overs) 34
TO BAT: Saeed Anwar Jr, Mohammad Wasim, Misbah-ul-Haq, Intikhab Alam, Yasir Arafat, Nadeem Abbasi, Jaffar Nazir, Stephen John, Mohammad Asif.
BOWLING (to-date): Mohammad Sami 6-4-11-0; Shabbir Ahmed 5-2-18-0.
UMPIRES: Z.I. Pasha and Iftikhar Malik.
MATCH REFEREE: Ishtiaq Ahmed.