da brwin： Karachi, Nov 19: Out-of-favour Pakistan Test off-spinner Arshad Khanclaimed a match haul of nine wickets as Peshawar took first inningspoints after the Quaid-i-Azam Trophy National Cricket Championshipencounter against Karachi petered out into a
da jogodeouro： 20-Nov-2000Karachi, Nov 19: Out-of-favour Pakistan Test off-spinner Arshad Khanclaimed a match haul of nine wickets as Peshawar took first inningspoints after the Quaid-i-Azam Trophy National Cricket Championshipencounter against Karachi petered out into a tame draw at the UBLSports Complex here on Sunday.Arshad captured all the five Karachi Blues wickets in the secondinnings to keep a promise he made on Saturday. His performance wasquite exceptional since the docile strip here offered scant assistanceto the slow bowlers.Arshad, who claimed five for 85 in 32 overs on Sunday, finished thegame with a bag of nine for 202 in 84.3 overs to remind the nationalselectors that he is still a bowler to be reckoned with.The Blues were 237 for five when the match was called off after the10th mandatory over. The highlights of the innings being the battingof Nomanullah (52 off 71 balls with nine fours) and the unbrokensixth-wicket partnership of 89 between Iqbal Imam and Maisam Hasnain.Iqbal Imam scored his second fifty of the match by stroking 55 off 133balls in 147 minutes with six fours. Maisam contributed 53 off 83balls in 92 minutes with seven boundaries.Earlier, 19-year-old slow left-arm bowler Fahim Ahmed took four of thelast five wickets to end with a career-best return of six for 127 asPeshawar added just 27 runs to Saturday’s tally of 410 for five.
