KARACHI, Oct 22: PIA endured a miserable second day of their Patron’s Trophy Grade-I fixture against Wapda at Iqbal Stadium, Faisalabad Monday.
Despite a solid opening stand of 90, PIA crashed to 168 for seven in their first innings after Wapda made 331, says a message here.
It was a dismal batting performance from a team that boasts of reliable and experienced batsmen.
PIA’s first target Tuesday will be to garner 14 runs to avoid the follow-on with Mahmood Hamid (5) the only specialist batsman left.
Sohail Jaffer (44 off 64 balls) and Ghulam Ali (67 off 169 balls) had given PIA a head start but once the partnership was broken the middle-order caved in without a fight against pace duo of Raees Amjad and Faisal Irfan, who shared five wickets them between.
Raees disposed off Faisal Iqbal (15), skipper Moin Khan (0) and Nadeem Afzal (5) while Faisal removed Sohail Jaffar and Asif Mujtaba (5).
WAPDA (1st Innings, overnight 281-7):
Adil Nisar b Nadeem 27
Maqsood Akbar c Moin b Ali Gohar 11
Kashif Rasheed c Moin b Ali Gohar 16
Rizwan Malik c Moin b Ghulam Ali 82
Tariq Aziz c Sohail b Fazle 2
Shoaib Khan not out 79
Zahid Umer c Moin b Fazle 3
Kashif Raza b Fazle 42
Kamran Hussain c Ghulam Ali b Fazle 3
Raees Amjad b Nadeem 1
Faisal Irfan c Moin b Ghulam Ali 19
EXTRAS (B-4, LB-10, W-2, NB-30) 46
TOTAL (all out, 105.4 overs) 331
FALL OF WKTS: 1-32, 2-60, 3-79, 4-113, 5-194, 6-197, 7-274, 8-282, 9-283.
BOWLING: Fazle Akbar 33-12-84-4; Nadeem Afzal 21-7-67-2; Ali Gohar 24-0-96-2; Mohammad Zahid Jr 8-1-38-0; Ghulam Ali 19.4-4-32-2.
PIA (1st Innings):
Sohail Jaffar c Shoaib b Faisal 44
Ghulam Ali lbw b Kashif Raza 67
Yasir Hameed c Shoaib b Kamran 0
Asif Mujtaba c Zahid b Faisal 5
Faisal Iqbal c K. Rasheed b Raees 15
Mahmood Hamid not out 5
Moin Khan c Tariq b Raees 0
Nadeem Afzal c Shoaib b Raees 5
Ali Gohar not out 0
EXTRAS (B-2, LB-15, NB-10) 27
TOTAL (for seven wkts, 54 overs) 168
FALL OF WKTS: 1-90, 2-99, 3-124, 4-156, 5-158, 6-162, 7-168.
TO BAT: Fazle Akbar, Mohammad Zahid Jr.
BOWLING (to-date): Kashif Raza 12-4-34-1; Kamran Hussain 19-9-40-1; Faisal Irfan 12-3-28-2; Raees Amjad 13-1-49-3.