Wapda make steady start against PIA

Wapda made a steady start to their Quaide-Azam Trophy quarterfinal against PIA Tuesday crawling to 219 for five on the first day at the Rawalpindi Stadium.

Opener Atiq-ur-Rehman (67) and Hasan Adnan who scored an unbeaten 56, kept Wapda going albeit slowly after they had been put in to bat first.

Off-spinner Shoaib Malik took two wickets for 58 runs while fast bowler Mohammad Zahid and slow left-armer Asif Mujtaba had one each.

PIA suffered a huge setback earlier in the day when Test speedster Fazle Akbar limped off the field with a thigh strain.

Scoreboard

WAPDA (1st Innings):

Adil Nisar run out 32

Atiq-ur-Rehman c Ghulam b Asif 67

Tariq Aziz lbw b Zahid 18

Hasan Adnan not out 56

Shahid Mansoor lbw b Shoaib 4

Sabir Hussain c Faisal b Shoaib 4

Rana Naveed-ul-Hasan not out 29

EXTRAS (B-1, LB-3, NB-5) 9

TOTAL (for five wkts, 85 overs) 219

FALL OF WKTS: 1-60, 2-92, 3-146, 4-162, 5-176

TO BAT: Zahid Umar, Kashif Raza, Waqas Ahmed, Aqeel Ahmed

BOWLING (to-date): Fazle Akbar 4.1-0-16-0; Umar Gul 19-7-50-0; Mohammad Zahid 12.5-0-39-1; Asif Mujtaba 20-5-52-1; Shoaib Malik 29-9-58-2

PIA: Kamran Sajid, Ghulam Ali, Faisal Iqbal, Asif Mujtaba, Bazid Khan, Yasir Hameed, Moin Khan, Shoaib Malik, Mohammad Zahid, Umar Gul, Fazle Akbar

UMPIRES: Siddique Khan and Rasheed Bhatti

MATCH REFEREE: Abdul Sami Khan