Pentangular Cup Update: Mohammad Khalil shines for Punjab
At the close of play on day three, Punjab is on the verge of a victory against Baluchistan in a fourth round encounter of the Faysal Bank Pentangular Cup 2010-11, at the Qaddafi Stadium Lahore. Baluchistan requires another 250 runs on the last day of the
match with eight second innings wickets in hand.
Abdur Rauf won the toss and invited the home team to bat first on a green top. It turned out to be a crucial toss to win as Punjab lost five of their top batsmen with only 115 runs on the board. Captain http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Taufeeq-Umar-c92889 took control of the situation from then
onwards and played a real captain’s knock to take his team out of trouble and made sure that his team reaches a competitive total of 235 runs before being bowled out.
Taufeeq struck a brilliant hundred and carried his bat for Punjab in the first innings. He scored 106 runs off 201 balls with the help of 12 boundaries. http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Punjab-c833.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Imranullah-Aslam-c64264 claimed a scalp to help his team’s cause.
In reply, Baluchistan was blown away by Test fast bowler http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mohammad-Khalil-c77063 as he picked up eight wickets for just 38 runs in his 13 overs. Apart from Zain Abbas, no Baluchistan batsman was able to cope with some exceptional swing bowling of Khalil and as a
result the whole team was bundled out for a mere 126 runs.
Opener http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Zain-Abbas-c98522 who is making his first-class debut played a brilliant innings under pressure and remained unbeaten on 71 runs and became the second batsmen of the match to carry his bat.
After getting a very healthy first innings lead, Punjab got off to a very confident start in their second innings. Test opener http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Imran-Farhat-c64218 raised his hands this time and played a fantastic knock and scored a hundred. Because of his superb ton, the home
team was able to score 303 runs for the loss of nine wickets before they declared the innings.
Farhat scored 128 runs off only 136 balls which included 20 boundaries. Taufeeq scored 42 runs in the second innings as well.
Left arm spinner Zulfiqar Babar was the star for Baluchistan in the second innings as he picked up four wickets for 76 runs. http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Rizwan-Haider-c2329 also claimed a couple of victims for their team.
Baluchistan needed 395 runs to win in the last innings of the match and scored 145 runs for the loss of two wickets at stumps on day three. http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Shoaib-Khan-c90084 Jr shined for Baluchistan in the second innings and scored 84 runs off only 111 balls with the help of
15 fours. http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Saeed-Anwar-c87864 Jr will resume Baluchistan’s innings tomorrow.
Left arm fast bowler Mohammad Khalil who made his Test debut against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Australia-c746 back in 2004 has had an outstanding domestic season with the ball and the selectors should give a serious thought about giving him another chance to prove his worth at the international
level.
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