Quaid-e-Azam Trophy, a recap of the seventh round (Part 4)
Rawalpindi versus Islamabad
Rawalpindi trounced Islamabad in a one sided affair in the seventh round match of Quaid-e-Azam Trophy at Diamond Cricket Club Ground.
The visitors completely dominated the match as they defeated the home team significantly by eight wickets. Sadaf Hussain wreaked havoc for the Islamabad batsmen on the penultimate day of the match as his five-wicket haul left his team with 50 runs to chase.
Rawalpindi again won the toss and elected to field first on a wet pitch at Diamond Club. The tourists took complete advantage of helpful wickets as they dismissed the opposition for a modest 218-run score. Islamabad started off in a sedate manner as they played watchfully in the first half of their innings. Resultantly, the opening stand negated the new-ball effect as they mustered a resilient 61-run opening partnership.
The wickets continued to tumble in the middle overs as the scorecard read 92 runs for the loss of four wickets. Ameer Khan was the pick of the batsmen as he struck a well made 79-run innings to guide his team to a position of stability. Imad Wasim provided his team with a valuable contribution as he scored 46 runs in a defiant manner.
For Rawalpindi, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Rashid-Latif-c84084 was the star performer with the ball as he registered significant figures of 5/77 in a marathon spell of 23 overs. Sadaf Hussain supported him with his left-arm medium pace bowling scalping three crucial wickets in the first innings.
The tourists displayed a brilliant show with the bat in their first innings as they racked up a massive 405-run total. http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Shoaib-Nasir-c90092 was brilliant in the start as he scored a match defining century in order to put his team in a commanding position. All the batsmen contributed to the cause as they made valuable contributions.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Fakhar-Hussain-c56759 was the pick of the bowlers for Islamabad as he recorded brilliant figures of 5/60 in 16 incisive overs. Apart from Fakhar no other bowler made a significant contribution with the ball and this allowed the opposition to score more than 400 runs in their first innings.
Trailing by 187 runs Islamabad started their innings poorly as they lost their first two wickets on a grim score of 13 runs. Then it was up to the opening batsman http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Nauman-Masood-c78862 to rescue his team from an early debacle. Furthermore, Masood put up a brilliant show as he mustered 84-runs to lead the revival of the Islamabad innings.
In the process he assembled a 102-run gritty partnership with http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Zeeshan-Mushtaq-c98588 in order to avoid further havoc. Zeeshan scored 66 runs in a resilient manner in order to provide his senior partner with valuable support.
The home team crumbled in the later part of their innings as they lost their last five wickets in a space of just 26 runs. Resultantly, the home team posted a modest 236-run total and in doing so, they set an easy target of 50 runs for the opposition to record a massive win. Sadaf Hussain, the Rawalpindi opening bowler scythed through the Islamabad middle order batsmen as he bowled superbly for his figures of 5/57.
A target of 50 runs was a walk in the park for the tourists as they only needed ten overs to complete the target. However, they lost two wickets in the chase. http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Babar-Naeem-c47131 played aggressively for his 17 runs off only 9 balls.
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