Quaid-e-Azam Trophy- a recap of third round (part 2)
Karachi Whites versus Pakistan Television
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Imran-c64193 Farooq, who was killed in London and his body was brought to Karachi for the funeral.
PTV earned three points, in the process by the virtue of their first innings lead of 38 runs. Similarly, like the match between http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Hyderabad-c792 and SBP, this game was also dominated by the batsmen from either side.
The visitors won the toss and called Karachi to bat first in trying conditions. The Whites responded to the call in a measured manner. As a result, the piled up a decent first innings total of 307 runs, considering the assistance that was on offer to the
seam bowlers.
The home team lost their first wicket on a grim score of 24 runs. http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Khalid-Latif-c71261, the opener and Asif Zakir, in collaboration with each other mustered 122 runs of crucial importance. On a wet pitch, the pair showed great technique and composure to negate any
further assistance by the surface.
Moreover, the duo gathered defiant half centuries. In the process, Asif scored 65 runs and the opening batsmen was unlucky to miss out on century. Latif’s display of 91 runs came of just 93 balls, 15 crisp boundaries and a towering six.
Asim http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Kamal-c70069 means business. It was, after the demise of Latif, Asim was the lone warrior as wickets continue to fall around him. As expected, the obdurate left-hander racked up 80 runs to sail his team to a noble score.
For PTV, Saad Altaf started off in an emphatic fashion by breaking the opening partnership early on in the innings, recording 4/95 in a brilliant display of left-arm seam bowling. Adding to this, it was the left-arm spin bowling of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Yasim-Murtaza-c98232, which wreaked
havoc for the opposition’s batsmen, registering his second five-wicket haul of the first-class career, taking 5/59 in 25 economical overs.
Furthermore, they started their batting in a similar manner to their opponents by losing their first wicket very early on a bleak score of 35 runs. The visiting team stuttered early-on for 87/3. The need of the hour was a measured partnership with the bat
to avoid a debacle in the middle and late-middle order.
The pair of Fayyaz Ahmed and Usman Saeed had the proper answer for the demanding situation as the duo racked up a 172-run stand to refrain an early stutter. Ahmed stole the show with his scintillating century that included 17 crisp boundaries. Saeed, in
his beauty of 83 runs cracked up ten blazing fours and 2 mammoth sixes.
For Whites, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Atif-Maqbool-c46639 was the pick of the bowlers as he bowled a marathon spell of 35 overs, scalping 5/99 to devastate the opposition. Khalid Latif, the opener backed his off-break bowler, but this time with the ball. In doing so, he gathered decent
figures of 3/74 with his mini off-breaks. http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Azam-Hussain-c46875 finished off the innings by taking two late order wickets at a cost of 42 runs in 15 overs.
The home team had a second go on the final day as they played their remaining 52 overs, amassing 192 runs for the loss of 5 wickets. Asif Zakir and http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Zakir-c98538 remained the top scorer in the 2nd outing with 72 runs
in the bag.
The visiting team showed great determination with red cherry as their patience earned them five victims on the fourth day of the game. This time around, Mohammad Ali was the pick of the bowlers as he gathered worthy figures of 4/64. Apart from Ali, Yasim
was the only contributor as he chipped in with one wicket.
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