Quaid-e-Azam Trophy: Abbas’ all-round heroics help KRL post strong total

Bowler takes six wickets and makes 40 runs as team sets 306-run target for Karachi Whites

KARACHI: Muhammad Abbas’ all-round performance helped KRL set a strong target to Karachi Whites on the second day of their Quaid-e-Azam Trophy encounter at the National Stadium of Karachi yesterday.

Abbas, who had claimed four wickets on the first day, took two more on the second to restrict Karachi Whites, who had started the day at 41-8, to 77. He then made 40 runs off 49 balls, despite coming in as a number nine, to guide his side to 237 in the second innings and set a target of 306.

Opener Hasan Raza (72) was the only batsman apart from Abbas and Nayyer Abbas (47) to make more than 14 runs as Karachi Whites’ Tabish Khan ran riot to claim five wickets.

Karachi Whites were batting on 30-0 at stumps.





Abbas said he was happy to help his side, whether it be with the ball or the bat. “This was just my day as I was also able to help my team put up a reasonable second innings total by adding 40 runs. I hope to continue this form in the future as well,” he said.

Meanwhile in the match between PIA and FATA at the Jinnah Ground in Sialkot, the former resumed their first innings on 54-3 and were able to make 235 to trail by two runs. At the end of play, FATA, in their second innings, were batting on 114-2 with a lead of 116 runs.

At the Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore, SNGPL’s Muhammad Rizwan and Hussain Talat were batting on 56 and 28 runs respectively with the team on 234-4 against Lahore Whites after the Lahore outfit, who had resumed the day 297-6, were dismissed on 367, powered by opener Anas Mahmood’s 147.



At the Diamond Ground in Islamabad, Rawalpindi resumed their first innings on 256-8 and were able to add just 10 more runs before being dismissed by NBP. At the end of play, NBP were 224-6, trailing by 32 runs with Naved Yasin (44) and Faizan Khan (35) on the crease.

In other matches, HBL, who had resumed the day 51-1 against Karachi Blues, were batting on 255-5 at the UBL Sports Complex in Karachi, while UBL were on 260-8 against hosts Peshawar at the Arbab Niaz Stadium.

Published in The Express Tribune, October 17^th, 2016.

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