Quaid-e-Azam Trophy: FATA, Islamabad’s fates out of their hands
KARACHI: FATA and Islamabad, with their considerable wins in a final turn of a Quaid-e-Azam Trophy yesterday, increasing their chances of subordinate for a Super-8 stage.
Irfanullah Shah, of FATA, took 7 wickets in a second innings opposite Rawalpindi to finish with a 13-wicket transport for a compare as his side won by 16 runs.
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Chasing 101, Rawalpindi resumed their second innings on 17-4 though were skittled out on 88 runs, interjection to Shah and Saad Altaf’s heroics, with a latter holding 3 scalps of his own.
With that win, FATA now have 27 points and are in a tip 4 of Pool A. They now wait a outcome of a compare between Karachi Whites (18 points) and Lahore Whites as a win for a former will move a dual teams turn on points and improved run rate will confirm who progresses.
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In Pool A, meanwhile, Islamabad degraded Lahore Blues by 58 runs as Hassan Ali combined 6 some-more wickets to his first-innings transport of 5 and helped Islamabad shorten Lahore on 138 in their luckless follow of 196 runs.
With 24 points to their name, Islamabad now wait a outcome of WAPDA and HBL’s compare where a improved for a latter will safeguard Islamabad’s progression. In box Islamabad win or pull with a first-innings lead afterwards a group with a improved run rate will go through.
At stumps on day three, HBL were batting on 184-5 in respond to WAPDA’s initial innings sum of 361.
Published in The Express Tribune, Nov 15th, 2016.
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