KARACHI: The seventh and final turn of a Quaid-e-Azam Trophy kicks off today, with 4 Super-8 berths still adult for grabs.
WAPDA lay atop Pool A with 5 wins and a detriment from 6 matches, carrying amassed 43 points so far. They are followed by UBL, who have 33 points.
In Pool B, meanwhile, KRL have 4 wins and dual draws and lay top, interjection to their 42-point haul. Behind them are NBP, who have collected 29 points around 3 win and as many draws.
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The 4 aforementioned teams are guaranteed a place in a subsequent round, though a 6 teams next them (three any in both a groups) still have all to play for.
In Pool A, SSGC — who are in third place with 26 points — will aim a win or a pull with a first-innings lead when they face UBL as possibly unfolding will be adequate to get them through.
SSGC’s Asif Zakir, a tournament’s heading scorer with 503 runs, is targeting a win for a organisation rather than particular glory. “My concentration is always on personification an innings that helps a organisation win. we don’t measure for myself,” he told The Express Tribune.
Fourth-ranked HBL have 21 points and will face WAPDA. The usually approach by for them is by defeating a organisation leaders.
A pull with a first-innings lead will get HBL 3 points though leaves a doorway open for fifth-placed Lahore Blues and sixth-placed Islamabad, who have 19 and 15 indicate respectively and face any other.
In Pool B, third-placed SNGPL’s (27 points) prospects for gift demeanour splendid as they face bottom-ranked PIA, who have won usually once and have mislaid 5 of their matches.
Following SNGPL are FATA and Karachi Whites with 18 points each. The Karachi side will close horns with sixth-placed Rawalpindi (15 points), since FATA’s opponents are seventh-ranked Lahore Whites, who usually have 9 points to their name.
With 46 wickets underneath his belt, Tabish Khan is a tournament’s corner heading wicket taker (along with KRL’s Muhammad Abbas), though his luminosity hasn’t reaped a singular win for Karachi Blues — something he can’t fathom.
“I have finished my work though somehow we have not won anything,” he said.
Published in The Express Tribune, Nov 12th, 2016.
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