Quaid-e-Azam trophy, roundup (part3)
Quaid-e-Azam Trophy- final day roundup of the first round
Lahore Ravi versus State Bank of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Pakistan-c755
A match which was looking like a draw, SBP sealed the victory through a stunning bowling performance as they devastated the Lahore Ravi to hold them at a score of 162 runs, handing them a thumping defeat by 10 wickets.
SBP started the final day on the score of 418/7. They only added 7 more runs to their total for the loss of just one wicket. http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mohammad-Irshad-c76990 for Lahore gathered his second wicket as he dismissed the overnight batsman, Bilawal Bhatti. Irshad finished the
match with decent figures of 2/73.
To everyone’s surprise, the opening bowlers of SBP wreaked havoc on the opposition’s batsmen. Lahore Ravi were reduced to a weak score line of 2/11 in four overs. http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Fahad-ul-Haq-c56679 and Ashraf Ali formed a resilient partnership of 53 runs to rescue their team’s
ship for a moment or two. In the process, the pair achieved decent forties.
The arrival of the left-arm spinner, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Nayyer-Abbas-c78962 spun four opposition batsmen back to the pavilion in a space of his marathon 25 overs. In his hunt, he gathered a tally of 4/33. In doing so, he turned the match in favour of his team. Kashif Siddiq, in support
of his bowling partner, Nayyer, took amazing figures of 3/18 in 10 economical overs.
In pursuit of just 6 runs, SBP’s batsmen came to complete the match as they did it in style without losing a single wicket.
Peshawar versus Lahore Shalimar
In another match Lahore Shalimar hammered Peshawar to complete a hard fought victory by 8 wickets, hunting down a low target of 79 runs. http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Peshawar-c832 was never in the match after conceding a 152-run lead. To add to their worries, they did put up another dismal
batting display in their 2nd outing.
Peshawar started the day on the score of 33/1. Akbar Babar led the fight back of his team with his resilient unbeaten 93 runs off 128 balls. His beauty included 12 cracking fours, but it was in vain as the other batsmen did not support him in the resurgence.
Although, it was the 2nd wicket partnership of 77 runs between Naved Khan and Gauhar Ali displayed some signs of rescue as both of them scored 32 and 46 runs, simultaneously.
Saad Nasim was the pick of the bowlers for Shalimar as he went onto register match winning figures of 4/63. He found complete backing of his co-bowlers. Emmad Ali and Sammer Akram supported their senior partner and they both gathered two wickets each.
A target of 79 runs was always a walk in the park. It was always going to be difficult for the Peshawar bowlers to win their team the match from a position debacle.
Lahore completed the victory in spanking fashion as they chased down the total in eleven overs by losing only two wickets in the process. http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Rana-Adnan-c83896, the dasher with the bat, his highlight of 31 runs off just 29 balls included 3 cracking boundaries.
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It was the only match in Division two which ended in a draw, where the two other teams played for a win, despite being in the situation to draw the match.
Hyderabad started the day on 99 for no loss as their openers looked good to secure a draw for their team. They were just 95 runs ahead, so it was a likely draw. Azeem Ghuman was sent back to the pavilion on the overnight score of 24 runs.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Aqeel-Anjum-c45294 associated themselves in a 101-run stand. In the process, Sharjeel scored a breathtaking century. His beauty of 130 runs came at a brilliant strike rate of 105. His beauty included 21
fours and 2 mammoth sixes. Aqeel remained unbeaten on the score of 110 runs. As a result of magnificent individual performances, they piled up a mountain of 368 runs.
Hyderabad declared their innings, setting a target of 387 runs with an hour to play. Quetta did get to play only 5 overs as they scored 24 runs.
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