Quaid-e-Azam Trophy - a recap of third round (part1)
The third round of the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy ended in a fascinating manner. The ongoing cup housed some brilliant bowling performances, scintillating batting displays and great fight-backs from the top notch domestic teams.
Bettor.com feels proud in taking a recap of the recently concluded third round of country’s prestigious event.
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Hyderabad and State Bank of Pakistan indulged themselves in a boring draw at Niaz Stadium. The conditions were indifferent for batting, but the batsmen from both the sides showed great technique and composure at the crease to manage a dull draw.
To everyone’s surprise, each team managed one complete outing with the bat and both of them gathered almost 350 runs, playing over 280 overs. Apart from that, Hyderabad was given a second go for only 38 overs, till the match was over.
For a trend, Hyderabad was sent into bat, after State Bank of Pakistan won the toss in bowling helpful conditions. The hosts managed a fighting score of 326 in their first show. They lost their first wicket very cheaply at a bleak score of 14.
The opening batsman, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Aqeel-Anjum-c45294 associated themselves in a crucial partnership of 86 runs. In doing so, they negated the assistance that the opposition bowlers were getting with the new ball.
Moreover, Ghumman played a measured innings of 77 runs of 272 balls. On the other hand, Anjum managed only 36 runs of 111 balls. The pair hit only 8 boundaries, between them. The other substantial contributor with the bat was Rizwan Ahmed with his 48 runs.
For SBP, Bilawal Bhatti was the star of the show with the red cherry in his hand. The right-arm medium pace bowler displayed a brilliant spell of seam bowling with his probing line and length to annoy the opposition. In doing so, he registered decent figures
of 4/46 in 28 economical overs.
Apart from Bhatti, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Nayyer-Abbas-c78962 and Adnan Rasool were the other impact makers as they gathered two wickets apiece. The duo of spinner kept things quite at one end by bowling 78 accurate overs between them. In doing so, they allowed the faster men to attack
from the other end.
SBP started their innings a sedate manner. They lost their first four wickets at a score-line of 82, despite having a decent opening partnership of 43 runs. The situation required a thoughtful partnership in demanding circumstances.
The visiting willower, Rameez Alam and http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Naved-Yasin-c2081 provided their team with a defiant combination of 182 runs. In the process, Alam almost scored a century, leaving the ground with one short of what would have been a terrific century.
Furthermore, Yasin, the talented left hander mustered a composed hundred to sail his team to a first innings lead of 59 runs. Gulraiz Sadaf, the wicket keeper batsman showed a lot of promise with his well made half-century. By the virtue of a worthy batting
display, the tourists piled up a prudent total of 385 runs.
For the home team, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Kashif-Pervez-c70398, the left-arm seam bowler wreaked havoc for the opposition batting line-up as he scalped presentable figures of 6/87. The left-armer displayed the mixture of accuracy and pace to get such brilliant numbers on a day where
batsmen dominated the scene.
Into the final day, the match was heading towards a draw. The hosts came into bat for the second time and only 38 overs were bowled. Ghumman carried his form in the 2nd outing and struck a well controlled 77 runs. As a result, the hosts managed
158 runs to attain a boring draw.
Nayyer, the left-arm spinner tried hard to produce a miraculous performance, taking 2/28 in 11 incisive overs.
State Bank picked three points by the virtue of their first innings lead.
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