Karachi: Haider Ali scored a double century in the seventh round of Quaid-e-Azam Trophy.
On the second day at NBP Sports Complex Karachi, Northern started the innings with 323 runs for 3 wickets and declared after losing 8 wickets for 445 runs. Haider Ali, who came to the crease with 147 runs, showed excellent batting Completed the century.
His 206 runs included 27 fours and 4 sixes, Faizan Riaz scored 67 runs, Mohammad Ali 3 while Ahmed Safi Abdullah and Usman Qadir took 2 wickets each. In reply, Central Punjab lost 8 wickets for 223 runs. Hussain Talat (51), Imran Dogar (43), Mohammad Saad (38) and Ali Zariab (37) stood out.
On the other hand, Sindh captain Asad Shafiq and Khurram Manzoor got the team out of trouble by scoring fifty against SBP at the SBP Sports Complex. And Asad Shafiq is not out for 50 runs.
Earlier, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa declared the first innings at 265 for 9, starting with 124 for 2, with Musaddiq Ahmed scoring 75, Asif Afridi 50 and Iftikhar Ahmed 40, Sohail Khan 5 and Amir Hamza got out 3 wickets, Shah Nawaz Dhani got one wicket, Balochistan scored 276 runs for 4 wickets in the first innings at UBL Sports Complex, Shaun Masood scored a century while batting well.
His 105 runs included 17 fours and a six, Ayaz Taswar 58 and captain Bismillah Khan 57 not out, Umar Akmal scored 17 runs, before Southern started the first innings with 327 runs for 2 wickets and ended at 483. Salman Ali Agha played 135 innings, Yousuf Babar remained unbeaten on 119, Aamir Yameen scored 43 and Azam Khan scored 14, Khurram Shehzad and Aqib Javed scored 3 and 3 while Kashif Bhatti bowled 2.
