da bet7： Honours on the opening day of the Quaid-i-Azam Trophy Grade-I CricketChampionship between Karachi Whites and Peshawar were evenly sharedat National Stadium here Friday
da winzada777： Khalid H. Khan02-Mar-2002Honours on the opening day of the Quaid-i-Azam Trophy Grade-I CricketChampionship between Karachi Whites and Peshawar were evenly sharedat National Stadium here Friday.No less than 15 wickets fell on a fascinating day with the ball clearlydominating the willow while 295 runs were scored on a pitch that offeredplenty to the bowlers all day. Kuwait-born paceman Tanvir Ahmed stole thelimelight picking five wickets for 53.Karachi Whites, after a stuttering start to their innings which left themreeling at 51 for four at one stage then 98 for five, made a partial recoveryto reach stumps 21 runs behind Peshawar’s first innings score of 158.The Whites were lucky not to lose another wicket in the penultimate overof the day when wicket-keeper Zulfiqar Jan spoiled his day by spilling arelatively not-so-difficult chance offered by Imran Javed (32) off KabirKhan.Now it remains to be seen how long Imran, a gutsy 22-year-old allrounder, makes Peshawar pay for that reprieve. Skipper Moin Khan isbatting with 17, includes two boundaries in the final over, the secondcreamed to the cover boundary off the day’s last delivery.Speedster Fazle Akbar is now five away from the magical 100-wicket markafter taking two more scalps Friday. He removed Ghulam Ali in his secondover with a late outswinger that flew off the outside edge to a divingZulfiqar Jan.Mohammad Masroor made an enterprising 36 with five hits to the fenceuntil he perished while offering a horizontal bat after initially going for apull.In between, left-arm pacer Waqar Ahmed dismissed Shadab Kabir, bowledwithout playing a shot to a straight ball for 13, and Hasan Raza,magnificently taken behind by Zulfiqar in front of first slip, with the thirdand fifth balls of his opening over. Waqar then induced a false stroke fromSaeed bin Nasir, who holed out to mid-wicket for 13.Earlier, Peshawar’s batsmen came and went in a regular procession afterMoin invited them to bat first at the toss.Handicapped by the absence of Akhtar Sarfraz and Riffatullah as well asTest star Younis Khan, Peshawar limped to 129 for six after Friday’sextended three-hour morning session.Tanvir, extracting lift from a responsive track, made life difficult for thevisiting team with two wickets in his first three overs. He later returnedafter the break to end the innings by capturing three more in five balls asPeshawar lost the final four wickets in 11 balls for the addition of just tworuns.Opening batsman Zeeshan Mohsin, however, stood apart with a knock of39 on his first-class debut. The 18-year-old left-hander came intoprominence when he helped Peshawar clinch their first Under-19 Grade-Ititle last October with a century in each innings of the final against LahoreBlues.The youngster played several exquisite cuts and drives while facing 50balls. Going for a seventh four, Zeeshan slashed Mohammad Hasnain’s firstball of a new spell to gully where Arif Mahmood dived low to his left andbrought off a superb catch.
