Abbottabad vs Faisalabad – Quaid-e-Azam Trophy - Day's Summary
Faisalabad is up against Abbottabad in a four-day first-class match of Quaid-e-Azam Trophy Division one at Gohati Cricket Stadium, Swabi. Faisalabad are in a dreadful position and in danger of losing the match, which is being played on November 19, 2011.
After setting a daunting lead of 237 for Abbottabad in their first innings, Faisalabad risk losing the match with 42 for the loss of four wickets in their second innings and two days left behind.
Faisalabad started their second innings with their openers Farrukh Shehzad and Shoaib Shah, who again failed to provide their team a dream or even a steady start, as the side lost two top order wickets on the total of just five runs.
Farrukh was the first man to go to the pavilion after scoring just four runs after playing five balls. He was caught behind by Mir Azam off the bowling of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Chaudhri-Mohammad-Naeem-c50533.
The next batsman was http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mohammad-Shahid-c77316, who came into the middle as a One-Down batsman, and was removed on the first ball that he faced. He was also trapped behind the wickets off the bowling of Naeem.
Faisal Mubashir came into the middle after the wicket of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Shahid-c89347; however, he could not make any notable impression but tried to build a partnership with Shah, who unfortunately, went back to the pavilion after scoring just seven runs off 41 balls. Faisalabad
were at 28 for the loss of three wickets at this point.
Faisalabad lost their fourth wicket on the same score of 28 and went into a terrible position with tons of pressure. However, Ghulam Shabir, the wicket keeper batsman and http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Asif-Hussain-c46474 played a good little cameo and built a little partnership with Asif Hussain.
Both remained unbeaten until the end of the day’s play, and at the stumps, Faisalabad were 42 for the loss of four wickets.
Earlier, Faisalabad won the toss and opted to bat first. However, they could not handle the pressure that was exerted by the Abbottabad bowlers as they lost their first wicket on just one run on the board.
Their batting line-up collapsed dreadfully in the first innings as none of the batsmen could enter double figures except Shoaib Shah, who scored 24 runs. Extras (18) also facilitated them to reach a total of 74.
In response to Faisalabad's first innings total of 74, Abbottabad amassed 311 in their first innings, taking a lead of 237 runs, with http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Riaz-Kail-c84806 (67) and Rameez Ahmad (56) remaining the top scorers for their side. Three of the Abbottabad batsmen could not
enter double figures, but four batsmen scored more than 20 runs, with the opener Mohammad http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Naeem-c78451 missing out on his fifty by just six runs.
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