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Ahmed heroics places CP on brink of first victory

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KARACHI: Tailender Ahmed Safi Abdullah proved an unlikely batting hero towards Sindh to place Central Punjab on brink of their much-awaited first victory within the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy on the Nationwide Stadium right here on Friday.

After beginning the championship with two straight defeats, Central Punjab are nearly sure to seal Sindh’s destiny on Saturday’s ultimate day of this sixth-round fixture. After being set an inconceivable 432, Sindh had been in scorching soup at 152-Four regardless of opener Sharjeel Khan contributing 89 of these runs earlier than being run out.

Sindh captain Asad Shafiq’s struggles continued when he was dismissed by occasional off-spinner Qasim Akram for an unbelievable 35-ball duck after 54 minutes of crease occupation.

However the day belonged to the younger left-handed Ahmed who not solely registered his maiden first-class 50 however remained unbeaten on 83 because the final two Central Punjab wickets boosted the second innings tally by 130 runs.

Resuming at 96-5 — and holding an in a single day lead of 280 runs — Central Punjab misplaced three fast wickets to be discover themselves tottering at 117-8. However the 22-year-old Ahmed, who got here in at No.10, blasted six fours and 5 sixes throughout his 60-ball knock.

Waqas Maqsood adopted up his magnificent 6-25 on Friday with a helpful 32 as helped Ahmed shared the best stand of the innings — 68 for the final wicket.

Leg-spinner Abrar Ahmed captured 4 wickets for 40 runs.

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa had been additionally closing in on their third victory within the competitors after lowering Balochistan to 164-6 in pursuit of a stiff goal of precisely 400 on the SBP Sports activities Complicated.

Earlier, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa added 101 runs to their Friday’s second-innings whole of 98-3. Opener Israrullah hit 86, whereas paceman Taj Wali grabbed 5-57.

Northern, in the meantime, require to make 200 with their second innings to but to start out on the UBL Sports activities Complicated to displace Southern Punjab on the prime of the six-team standings.

Southern Punjab, who began the third day at 19-Zero after trailing by runs on the primary innings, had been all out for a second-innings rating of 295 on the stroke of stumps after Northern broke a cussed fifth-wicket partnership of 137 between Agha Salman (89) and Imran Rafiq (61).

Northern skipper Nauman Ali maintained his spot on the prime of bowling chart by snaring six wickets for 107 runs on Friday to take his general haul to 43.

Shut of play scores on Friday (day three of 4):

First XI, sixth spherical:

At Nationwide Stadium, Karachi: CENTRAL PUNJAB 276 in 103.2 overs (Usman Salahuddin 80, Ali Zaryab 56, Saad Nasim 44, Mohammad Saad 41, Hasan Ali 26 not out; Tabish Khan 3-37, Mir Hamza 3-58) and 247 in 61 overs (Ahmed Safi Abdullah 83 not out, Mohammad Akhlaq 56, Waqas Maqsood 32; Abrar Ahmed 4-40, Shahnawaz Dhani 3-59, Mohammad Umar 2-56); SINDH 92 in 29.Three overs (Saad Ali 17; Waqas Maqsood 6-25, Bilawal Iqbal 2-17) and 152-Four in 50.5 overs (Sharjeel Khan 89, Shehzar Mohammad 26 not out, Saad Ali 24 not out).

At UBL Sports activities Complicated, Karachi: SOUTHERN PUNJAB 285 in 86.Three overs (Umar Siddique 89, Saif Badar 81, Agha Salman 53, Aamir Yamin 26, Zeeshan Ashraf 25; Sadaf Hussain 3-45, Munir Riaz 2-39, Nauman Ali 2-51) and 295 in 93.2 overs (Agha Salman 89, Imran Rafiq 61, Umar Siddique 34, Umar Khan 23, Zeeshan Ashraf 22; Nauman Ali 6-107); NORTHERN 381 in 83 overs (Umar Amin 102, Hammad Azam 91, Mohammad Nawaz 43, Sarmad Bhatti 41, Nasir Nawaz 36, Munir Riaz 23 not out; Zahid Mahmood 4-120, Zia-ul-Haq 2-70).

At SBP Sports activities Complicated, Karachi: KHYBER PAKHTUNKHWA 320 in 89.5 overs (Kamran Ghulam 153, Rehan Afridi 58, Khalid Usman 27; Khurram Shehzad 4-80, Umaid Asif 3-88, Taj Wali 2-76) and 199 in 60 overs (Israrullah 86, Adil Amin 32; Taj Wali 5-57, Jalat Khan 2-36, Khurram Shehzad 2-47); BALOCHISTAN 120 in 33 overs (Bismillah Khan 50 not out, Awais Zia 28; Irfanullah Shah 4-41, Mohammad Wasim 3-24, Sameen Gul 3-54) and 164-6 in 61 overs (Ali Waqas 44, Awais Zia 43; Sajid Khan 2-34, Mohammad Wasim 2-48).

Revealed in Daybreak, December fifth, 2020



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