KARACHI: Abrar Ahmed’s maiden ten-wicket haul and Ahsan Ali’s century steered Sindh to victory against Balochistan.
In the 16th match of the ongoing edition of Quaid-e-Azam trophy, Sindh defeated Balochistan by an innings 188 runs. At the toss, Sindh’s captain Asad Shafiq won the toss and put Balochistan into bat.
Batting first, balochistan batters were helpless against Sindh’s bowlers as they lost back to back wickets at a constant pace and were only managed to score 96 runs in first innings.
Skipper Imran Butt was their top-scorer in the first innings as he managed to score 33 runs. Rest of their batters could not do much to keep the scoreboard moving.
Sindh’s mystery spinner Abrar Ahmed turned out to be the standout bowler as he bagged a five-for. Sohail Khan took four wickets and Mir Hamza dismissed one batter.
Sindh in reply, were off to a solid start as their both openers played a superb knock, Ahsan Ali scored a brilliant century and missed out on a double-century before he got out on 194, Khurram Manzoor missed out on the century as he was dismissed on 94. Rest of the batters also made contributions and Sindh finished on 442.
Gohar Faiz took four wickets, Khurram Shehzad dismissed three batters while Kashif Bhatti, Amad Butt and Akif Javed took one wicket each.
Balochistan batters again found themselves struggling as they could not score big and the team bowled out for 158 in the second innings. Ayaz Tasawar was their top-scorer as the batter scored 45.
Abrar Ahmed again starred and bagged his maiden ten-wicket haul as he took six wickets in the second innings. Sohail Khan took three wickets and Mir Hamza took one wicket.
On the other hand, Southern Punjab is trailing by 128 runs in the second innings in the 17th match of Quaid-e-Azam Trophy against Central Punjab. Whereas, in the 18th match, Northern lead by 206 runs in their second innings against Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
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