KARACHI, Nov 9: Sui Gas’ brittle batting was once again exposed Friday when they plummeted from a promising 121 for no loss to 215 for seven in reply to National Bank’s first innings of 263 in the Patron’s Trophy Grade-I tie at Iqbal Stadium, Faisalabad Friday.
Pace duo Mohammad Sami and the left-armer Zahid Saeed shared six wickets between as Sui Gas lost all seven wickets in the space of 72 runs after Abid Mahmood and Ali Hussain made 78 and 47 respectively, according to details available here.
Sui Gas, who are already relegated into Grade-II championship next season, still need 49 runs for a first innings lead.
Earlier, Sami and skipper Mushtaq Ahmed lifted the champions’ score from 236 for nine overnight to 263 all out. Sami finished unbeaten with a career-best 41 while Mushtaq was run out after scoring 21.
NATIONAL BANK (1st Innings, overnight 236-9):
Khalid Latif c Hafeez b A. Rauf 3
Hanif-ur-Rehman c Hafeez b A. Rauf 33
Naeem Khan c Hafeez b A. Rauf 0
Aurangzeb Afridi lbw b Wasim 3
Qaiser Abbas b A. Rauf 2
Naumanullah c Saleem b Hafeez 50
Imran Javed lbw b Shahid 32
Kamran Akmal c Abid b Shahid 0
Zahid Saeed c Ali Raza b Wasim 53
Mohammad Sami not out 41
Mushtaq Ahmed run out 21
EXTRAS (LB-9, W-2, NB-14) 25
TOTAL (all out, 89.4 overs) 236
FALL OF WKTS: 1-13, 2-13, 3-32, 4-46, 5-51, 6-101, 7-107, 8-151, 9-232.
BOWLING: Abdur Rauf 28.4-4-86-4; Hafiz Tahir Fareed 6-0-17-0; Wasim Khan 29-6-81-2; Shahid Khan 15-4-38-2; Mohammad Hafeez 9-1-26-1; Sohail Idrees 2-0-6-0.
SUI GAS (1st Innings):
Ali Hussain b Imran 47
Abid Mahmood lbw b Zahid 78
Mohammad Hafeez lbw b Zahid 16
Sohail Idrees c Imran b Sami 4
Saleem Mughal c Imran b Sami 0
Zia-ur-Rehman c Kamran b Zahid 17
Ali Raza not out 15
Shahid Khan c Kamran b Sami 4
Abdur Rauf not out 13
EXTRAS (LB-6, W-1, NB-14) 21
TOTAL (for seven wkts, 73 overs) 215
FALL OF WKTS: 1-121, 2-151, 3-157, 4-157, 5-161, 6-184, 7-183.
TO BAT: Hafiz Tahir Fareed, Wasim Khan.
BOWLING (to-date): Mohammad Sami 18-7-34-3; Zahid Saeed 20-1-66-3; Hanif-ur-Rehman 1-0-4-0; Mushtaq Ahmed 14-2-51-0; Imran Javed 11-3-32-1; Naeem Khan 9-1-22-0.