Faysal Bank Super 8 T20 – Multan Tigers v Rawalpindi Rams – Match Recap
The Rawalpindi Rams rammed the Multan Tigers to earn a place in the semi-final as they beat the Tigers by seven wickets with 33 deliveries remaining in the game. The Group B fixture was played at the Iqbal Stadium, Faisalabad, on June 28, 2011.
After winning the toss, the Multan Tigers chose to bat first hoping to put enough runs on the board to give the Rams a run for their money.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Zain-Abbas-c98522, crafted a splendid partnership of 51 runs. During the time, the two openers were on the crease , things looked well in Multan’s favour, while on the other end, the rams were
seemingly running out of ideas as their pace attack was completely ripped apart by the sensational batting of the Multan openers.
However, on the last delivery of the 7th over, Arafat was caught by Sohail Tanvir off a magnificent delivery bowled by the right-arm medium pacer, Hammad Azam.
In the next over http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Umar-Amin-c94597. With 53 on the board, things were still not in a bad situation as the rest of the batting line-up should have capitalized on the foundation
laid by the openers. However, one down batsman Gulraiz Sadaf departed after adding just a run in the tally.
Later it was the 23-year-old http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Ashraf-c46397 who came to the rescue as they batted defiantly against a formidable bowling onslaught which they were up against.
Ashraf, after scoring 22 runs, was caught-behind off a delivery bowled by Raza Hasan. An over later Yasin also departed after playing an innings of 22 runs. He was caught by http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Zahid-Mansoor-c98489 off Raza.
After the demise of these two batsmen it was a sorry tale for the Multan Tigers as the Rams completely dominated the game from here on in without giving any chances to the batsmen to recover from the demolition process that had erupted after Yasin’s wicket.
By the end of the innings, Tigers managed to put only 128 runs on the board. The score wasn’t bad. Nonetheless, the tigers lacked the firepower in their bowling arsenal which was going to make things difficult for them while fielding.
Coming out to bat, the Rams knew that they needed to retain wickets and runs would come their way. With this in the back of their minds, the Rawalpindi openers gave their side a 32-run opening stand, before opener http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Awais-Zia-c46838 was caught by Ali Moazzam, off
a delivery bowled by http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Agha-Ahmed-Raza-Khan-c42254, the batsman departed after scoring 18 runs off 16 deliveries, his innings included three boundaries and a six.
Afterwards it was http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Gulraiz-Sadaf-c60866.
After the two openers, one down batsman Umar Amin contributed 13 runs before walking back to the pavilion.
After Amin’s wicket, the Tigers just didn’t have it in them to bowl out the rest of the Rams as http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Sohail-Tanvir-c90665 remained unbeaten. The two batsmen scored 39 runs each as they led their side to 134 runs.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Raza-Hasan-c84407 from the Rawalpindi Rams was named as the Man of the Match for taking four wickets.
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