RAWALPINDI, Nov 10: KRL were poised to score an outright victory over ADBP needing just 39 runs with a day’s play still to go in their Patron’s Trophy Grade-I match at the KRL Stadium Saturday.

After bowling out ADBP a second time for 225, KRL were left to score 66 to wrap up the match. Out of the required total, the home team had already put on 27 runs by the close of the third day for the loss of Shoaib Akhtar and Saeed Anwar Jr, both falling for ducks to Rao Iftikhar. Muhammad Ramazan and Intikhab Alam were together when play ended.

Earlier, the ADBP second innings revolved round Zahoor Elahi who hit up 73. Apart from him no other batsman could stay at the wicket long enough with Naeem Akhtar the top wicket-taker claiming five for 67.

KRL (1st Innings) 360 (Saeed Anwar Jr 112, Misbah-ul-Haq 83; Fahad Masood 5-124).

ADBP (1st Innings) 200.

ADBP (2nd Innings, following on):

Inam-ul-Haq c Jaffar b Naeem 31

Faisal Naveed lbw b Yasir 10

Atif Rauf b Jaffar 38

Zahoor Elahi lbw b Naeem 73

Ghaffar Kazmi lbw b Ramzan 8

Javed Hayat b Jaffar 5

Nadeem Hussain lbw b Naeem 26

Tahir Mahmood c Zulfiqar b Naeem 8

Rao Iftikhar lbw b Yasir 12

Mubashir Nazir c S. bin Nasir b Naeem 3

Fahad Masood not out 3

EXTRAS (LB-2, LB-4, NB-2) 8

TOTAL (all out, 66.1 overs) 225

FALL OF WKTS: 1-34, 2-57, 3-83, 4-97,

5-131, 6-187, 7-200, 8-209, 9-217.

BOWLING: Shoaib Akhtar 6-0-29-0; Jaffar Nazir 12-5-18-2; Naeem Akhtar 18-2-67-5; Yasir Arafat 11.1-0-45-2; Saeed Ajmal

15-2-49-0.

KRL (2nd Innings):

Shoaib Akhtar c Faisal b Iftikhar 0

Mohammad Ramzan not out 14

Saeed Anwar Jr b Iftikhar 0

Intikhab Alam not out 12

EXTRAS (NB-1) 1

TOTAL (for two wkts, 9.3 overs) 27

FALL OF WKTS: 1-0, 2-0.

BOWLING (to-date): Rao Iftikhar 5-1-16-2; Fahad Masood 2-0-10-0; Mubashir Nazir 2.3-2-0-0.