
WAPDA will now face HBL in a final of a Quaid-e-Azam Trophy that will be a day-night affair. PHOTO: APP
KARACHI: Three wickets any by Muhammad Asif and Waqas Maqsood directed WAPDA into a final of a Quaid-e-Azam Trophy after their compare opposite SSGC finished in a pull during a Arbab Niaz Stadium in Hyderabad yesterday.
SSGC were discharged on 306 carrying resumed a day on 298-7. Adil Amin done 90 runs for SSGC, while Maqbool Ahmed (57), Awais Zia (49) and Asif Zakir (42) chipped in with critical knocks.
WAPDA were on 136-4 in their second innings when a referee called time on a day’s play, finale a compare in a pull and permitting WAPDA to strech a final pleasantness their first-innings lead.
SSGC conduct coach, after a match, rued what he deliberate as inequitable umpiring during essential junctures of a match. “The umpiring was really bad via a match. Amin was given out when a round bounced off a ground. He was batting on 90 and a referee Qaiser Waheed poorly gave him out.”
Bashir four-for keeps NBP in check
In a other match, a seven-wicket transport in a second innings by a tournament’s heading wicket-taker Muhammad Abbas led KRL to a 26-run feat over NBP.
NBP, chasing 142, resumed their second innings on 54-4 and could usually strech 115 as Abbas ran demonstration to finish a compare with 10 wickets opposite both innings.
Meanwhile during a National Stadium of Karachi, SNGPL degraded Karachi Whites by 190 runs after Asad Ali and Muhammad Imran took 4 wickets every to shorten a Karachi outfit to 202.
Kamran, Imran hiss with stimulating centuries
Karachi Whites had resumed a day on 63-5 wanting 330 some-more runs to strech a 393-run aim though were incompetent to do that notwithstanding Daniyal Ahsan’s half-century.
The five-day final will be played from Dec 10-14 between WAPDA and HBL during a National Stadium of Karachi with a pinkish kookaburra round underneath lights.
Published in The Express Tribune, Dec 7th, 2016.
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