karachi ka match kab hogaaaa 
i wanna seee afridi in the team
dun worry it will be soon 
who is waqar younis representing!!!! and mushi' any news on him.
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who is waqar younis representing!!!! and mushi' any news on him.
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no news abt any of these players :(
Abdul Razzaq bats, bowls Lahore to victory over Multan
From our correspondent
LAHORE: Pakistan all-rounder Abdul Razzaq pulled a performance right out of the top drawer as he batted and bowled Lahore to a 10-wicket victory, on the final day of their first-round, four-day 46th Quaid-e-Azam Trophy Cricket Championship match against Multan, here at the Gaddafi Stadium on Thursday. By the end of the third day’s play, an outright win for either side had appeared a very remote possibility.
Of course, with a first innings score of 229 runs for two wickets by Wednesday evening, Lahore had already gained the advantage over Multan, who had managed just 186 runs before being all out in their first outing.
Yesterday, after declaring their innings closed at 322 for seven — with a lead of 136 runs - Lahore routed Multan for a second innings score of a mere 140 that left them only five runs to make for a win.
Multan’s demolition was made possible by the 24-year old Razzaq, already a veteran of 27 Tests and 154 One-day Internationals, who ran through the opponents’ middle and lower-order with impeccable figures of five wickets for 27 runs in a mere 37 deliveries - after having been brought on as third change by the Lahore skipper Yousuf Youhana.
This was Razzaq’s ninth feat of five or more wickets in an innings. Overall, he had figures of eight wickets of 56 runs in the match and, when he dismissed Multan’s last man Sohaib Maqsood, he also completed 250 wickets in first-class cricket while making his 81st appearance at this level.
Pace bowlers Irfan Fazil and Imran Sabir, with two wickets apiece, and off-spinner Zeeshan Safeer, had reduced Multan to 78 for five in their second innings before Razzaq got into his destruction mode. The tail wagged for a little while, with Kamran Hussain making an unbeaten 23 off 34 balls with three boundaries but it was of no avail.
Earlier, Razzaq’s knock of 39 not out off 48 deliveries in 78 minutes with six fours had enabled Yousuf Youhana to apply closure to the Lahore innings. The score had been boosted by Saleem Elahi and Adil Nisar on the third day, as they had made 145 runs together for the third wicket without being separated.
Yesterday, they took their partnership to 167 runs before being dismissed one after the other. Both batsmen perished in their eighties. Pakistan reject Saleem scored 85 off 216 balls in a little over five hours with 12 boundaries while the left-handed Adil’s 83 lasted only about three and a quarter hours, during which he faced 186 deliveries and sent the ball to the ropes 11 times.
Lahore made eight runs for no loss in their second innings and won by 10 wickets. With the full nine points from the triumph, they have perched themselves at the top of the table.
Of course, they still have to appear in seven more matches in the nine-team competition and a swipe at the championship title is still several weeks away.
Lahore will now meet Peshawar at the Sheikhupura Stadium on Sunday, in their next Quaid-e-Azam Cup National One-day Tournament match. From Monday, they’ll start the four-day Quaid-e-Azam Trophy Championship second-round match against the same opposition at the same venue. Multan are set to play against Sialkot at the Multan Cricket Stadium.
Scoreboard
Lahore won toss
Multan 1st inns 186 (Rehan Rafiq 54)
Lahore 1st inns (overnight 229-2)
Imran Farhat c Shafiq b Irshad 7
Taufeeq Umar b Aqeel 46
Saleem Elahi c Aamer b Rauf 85
Adil Nisar c Aamer b Rauf 83
†Kamran Akmal c Shafiq b Rauf 4
Abdul Razzaq not out 39
*Yousuf Youhana b Saeed 9
Irfan Fazil run out 4
Extras (b9, lb14, w6, nb16) 45
Total (7 wkts decl, 100 overs) 322
Did not bat: Mohammad Khalil, Imran Sabir, Zeeshan Safeer
Fall: 1-22, 2-84, 3-251, 4-262, 5-263, 6-294, 7-322
Bowling: Abdul Rauf 24-3-77-3 (6nb, 1w); Mohammad Irshad 19-4-69-1 (5nb); Kamran Hussain 4-1-18-0 (2nb); Sohaib Maqsood 16-2-54-0 (3nb); Aqeel Arshad 4-0-25-1; Saeed Anwar 33-9-56-1 (5w)
Multan 2nd inns
Yasir Arafat Jr b Irfan 22
Usman Tariq c & b Irfan 10
Saeed Anwar Jr c Kamran b Imran Sabir 18
*Aamer Bashir c I Farhat b Imran Sabir 9
Rehan Rafiq b Zeeshan 13
†Mohammad Shafiq lbw b Razzaq 13
Aqeel Arshad lbw b Razzaq 7
Kamran Hussain not out 23
Abdul Rauf lbw b Razzaq 0
Mohammad Irshad b Razzaq 4
Sohaib Maqsood b Razzaq 12
Extras (b4, lb2, nb3) 9
Total (all out, 33.1 overs) 140
Fall: 1-23, 2-47, 3-51, 4-70, 5-78, 6-90, 7-108, 8-112, 9-120
Bowling: Irfan Fazil 9-2-37-2 (2nb); Mohammad Khalil 4-0-24-0; Imran Sabir 6-1-18-2; Zeeshan Safeer 8-2-28-1; Abdul Razzaq 6.1-0-27-5 (1nb)
Lahore 2nd inns
Irfan Fazil not out 5
Imran Farhat not out 2
Extras (nb1) 1
Total (no wkt, 1.2 overs) 8
Bowling: Mohammad Irshad 1-0-2-0; Kamran Hussain 0.2-0-6-0 (1nb)
Result: Lahore won by 10 wickets
Umpires: Khalid Mahmood Sr and Z I Pasha. Match referee: Abdul Sami Khan. Official scorer: Syed Najamus Saeed
Quaid-e-Azam Trophy points table
Teams P W L D Pts
Lahore 1 1 - - 9
Faisalabad 1 - - 1 3
Rawalpindi 1 - - 1 0
Peshawar 1 - - 1 0
Sialkot 1 - - 1 0
Multan 1 - 1 - 0
Hyderabad 0 - - - -
Karachi 0 - - - -
Quetta 0 - - - -
How come there is no Islambad team? 
with all the other games they play in Islamabad they have no time to play cricket. 
Moin Khan, Danish Kaneria not available for Karachi
By Gul Hameed Bhatti
KARACHI: The appointed skipper Moin Khan and leg-break bowler Danish Kaneria are not available to play in Karachi’s first Quaid-e-Azam Cup National One-day Cricket Tournament match, which is expected to be staged against Quetta, here at the National Stadium tomorrow (Sunday).
Pakistan reject all-rounder Shahid Afridi, Karachi’s vice-captain, will thus lead the side. :smack2: The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB)-appointed selection committee for the Karachi region, headed by former first-class left-arm slow bowler Abdul Raqeeb, on Friday announced the names of 14 players who would represented the team in Sunday’s Quaid-e-Azam Cup limited-over encounter and the four-day, first-class Quaid-e-Azam Trophy Championship match that gets underway from Monday. No reason was given for the non-availability of both Moin and Kaneria, two of the six Karachi players who have been named among the 22 probables selected by the national panel for a camp to be set up prior to the Indian team’s visit to Pakistan in early March.
The camp is expected to start in Lahore by February 24. The Pakistan team players in the Karachi side will go off to attend the camp, after the two matches starting from Sunday, anyway. And, if the tour by the Indians materialises, then the Karachi team may not be able to acquire the services of their national players by the time the Quaid-e-Azam tournaments come to an end on April 15.
There also appears to be not much of a chance of Karachi getting onto the field on Sunday, or even in the subsequent match from Monday, as their opponents Quetta still have a hearing pending in a court after a stay order was obtained by the Cricketers Association of Balochistan (CAB) against the composition of the Quetta team for the season.
Quetta were thus not able to play either their Quaid-e-Azam Cup or Quaid-e-Azam Trophy first-round matches against Hyderabad at the latter’s Niaz Stadium. According to the PCB, these matches have been ‘postponed’ and will be played at a later date.
No decision has been made by the court yet, and it appears highly likely that the Quetta side, alleged to include several ‘ineligible’ players, will not travel to this city to meet the Karachi region team. Another version of the story says that it has been decided to exclude the disputed players from the Quetta squad and allow the rest to represent their region’s side in the games against Karachi.
There, thus, appears to be a possibility that Karachi and Quetta will meet after all. Karachi didn’t feature in the Quaid-e-Azam competitions’ first round. Six other participants did, with the Quetta and Hyderabad teams abstaining. Lahore beat Multan by 10 wickets in a rain-hit match on Thursday to snatch the full nine points.
Faisalabad took three points from a draw against Sialkot while neither Peshawar nor Rawalpindi were awarded any points in Peshawar as the first innings issue remained unresolved. All three matches were interfered with by rain, bad weather and wet grounds. There was no play at all on the first two days of the game at Peshawar’s Arbab Niaz Stadium.
Only 115 overs could be bowled on the next two days, in which Rawalpindi concentrated on getting batting practice and compiled a score of 403 for eight. In the three Quaid-e-Azam Cup matches played last Sunday, Lahore, Faisalabad and Peshawar got through the first round with wins.
Peshawar currently head the limited-over points table while Lahore are on top of the first-class Quaid-e-Azam Trophy ranking. The Karachi selection committee includes, apart from Raqeeb, Aftab Baloch and Asif Ahmed as its members while Sadiq Mohammad joined in as the team’s coach.
The four national players in the short-listed 14 are left-handed batsmen Shadab Kabir and Asim Kamal, middle-order player Faisal Iqbal and fast bowler Mohammad Sami. The wicket-keeper’s slot, in Moin’s absence, has gone to Ahmed Zeeshan Malik, who was earlier placed among the reserves with Atiq-uz-Zaman part of the first twenty.
The other players include batsmen Hasan Raza and Farhan Adil in addition to Saeed Bin Nasir and Naumanullah. Sami will be assisted by pace bowlers Tanvir Ahmed and Fahad Khan. Tahir Khan has been chosen in his capacity as an off-spinner while Arif Mahmood, a right-handed batsman and slow left-arm bowler, is the team’s all-rounder.
Arif has been picked for the Quaid-e-Azam Cup limited-over match only. For the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy game starting on Monday, he will be replaced in the 14 by left-arm fast-medium bowler Nasir Khan.
I don’t see a point in having this tournament since the 22 man squad for tests has already been announced…
Its a routine domestic one-day tournament that is organised every year.
But didn’t Shehriyar say that players will be picked based on their domestic performence in this tournament? Maybe he meant ODI’s…but I still think the squad should have been announced after the tournament. This is not fair to players like Imran Nazir, Afrdi and many more who should be given a chance if they play well.
Karachi region to play Faisalabad today instead of Quetta
By Gul Hameed Bhatti
KARACHI: The Karachi region team, which was to play its first match in the second-round Quaid-e-Azam Cup National One-day Cricket Tournament against Quetta here at the National Stadium today (Sunday), will instead meet Faisalabad and then go on to play its four-day 46th Quaid-e-Azam Trophy Championship encounter, against the same opposition at the same venue, with the same set of umpires, match referee and official scorer, from Monday.
Faisalabad, according to the original schedule announced by the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Domestic Cricket Monitoring Committee (DCMC), were earlier to be in Hyderabad to play their Quaid-e-Azam Cup and Trophy matches against Hyderabad at the Niaz Stadium there. Yesterday, even the Hyderabad team was restrained by a court stay order, obtained by a local player against his non-inclusion in the line-up.
Last Sunday, Quetta and Hyderabad couldn’t play their first-round Quaid-e-Azam Cup game as well as the subsequent Quaid-e-Azam Trophy match in Hyderabad, as the Cricketers Association of Balochistan (CAB) went to court claiming that the PCB-appointed selection committee had deliberately ignored six of the region’s most prominent cricketers.
The change in the Quaid-e-Azam tournaments’ programme has been necessitated by the legal tussle involving both Quetta and Hyderabad. The matches between the two teams, according to a PCB spokesman, will be played at a later date as will the fixtures between Karachi and Hyderabad. The Quetta case, now in the sessions court, is to be heard on Monday.
While Karachi will be making their first appearance in the 2003-04 Quaid-e-Azam competitions today, Faisalabad had achieved a thrilling one-wicket win, with just one over to spare, against Sialkot in the limited-over match at Faisalabad’s Iqbal Stadium last Sunday. In the rain-hit, first-class Quaid-e-Azam Trophy match, they took the three first innings lead points from Sialkot.
Peshawar currently head the Quaid-e-Azam Cup table, after they beat Rawalpindi by 28 runs according to the Duckworth/Lewis Method, at the Arbab Niaz Stadium in Peshawar last Sunday. At the Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore on the same day, Lahore went off to a flying start by defeating Multan.
In the Karachi versus Faisalabad match today here at the National Stadium, the two umpires will be Athar Zaidi, from Lahore, and Iqbal Butt of Peshawar. Former Test wicket-keeper Taslim Arif will serve as the match referee while Mohammad Ahsan has been appointed the official scorer.
The other two matches in the Quaid-e-Azam Cup one-day tournament are between Multan and Sialkot at the Multan Cricket Stadium - with umpires Asad Rauf and Mohammad Nazir Jr, match referee Azhar Khan and scorer Iqbal Malik - and between Lahore and Peshawar at the Sheikhupura Stadium. The umpires in the latter game will be Afzaal Ahmed and Islam Khan, referee Shafiq Ahmed and scorer Mohammad Akbar.
The Karachi team will be chosen from the following 14 players: Shahid Afridi (captain), Shadab Kabir, Faisal Iqbal, Asim Kamal, Hasan Raza, Farhan Adil, Ahmed Zeeshan (wk), Mohammad Sami, Tanvir Ahmed, Fahad Khan, Tahir Khan, Arif Mahmood, Saeed Bin Nasir and Naumanullah.
The appointed skipper Moin Khan and Pakistan leg-spinner Danish Kaneria were not available to play for Karachi for reasons that remain undisclosed. All-rounder Arif Mahmood, a right-handed batsman and slow left-arm bowler, will be replaced in the line-up by left-arm fast-medium bowler Nasir Khan for the first-class Quaid-e-Azam Trophy match.
The Faisalabad team will most probably be picked from the following players: Misbah-ul-Haq (captain), Mohammad Hafeez, Mohammad Ramzan, Ijaz Ahmed Jr, Naved Latif, Mohammad Salman (wk), Farooq Iqbal, Tauqeer Hussain, Ahmed Hayat, Faisal Afridi, Saeed Ajmal, Asif Hussain and Shahid Nazir.
Hyderabad cricket player follows Quetta in filing court case
By our correspondent
KARACHI: The organisation of the prestigious Quaid-e-Azam Trophy Cricket Championship is fast becoming a problem for the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) with two second round matches being put off due to court stay orders.
The Quetta and Karachi and the Hyderabad and Faisalabad matches have been put off by the board on court instructions.
A Hyderabad player has also now filed a case in the High Court and obtained a stay order against Hyderabad’s participation in the tournament.
According to PCB sources, while the Karachi and Quetta match due to start at the National Stadium on Sunday was already put off because of the court action taken by a players association of Balochistan against Quetta, the Hyderabad and Faisalabad game is also postponed.
PCB sources said a Hyderabad player not selected in the Hyderabad team had gone to court alleging injustice to him. Earlier, six players of the Quetta players association who have filed the case against the PCB had got a stay order against the first round Quetta and Hyderabad match last week.
“The sessions court in Quetta has given another stay order against the Quetta team playing in the tournament so there is going to be no match for Quetta as yet,” a source said.
The six players who are protesting over their non-selection in the Quetta team by the selection committee of the PCB, went to the sessions court after a civil court vacated an earlier stay order it had given in favour of the plaintaiffs against the Quetta team.
The civil court had vacated its stay order after the PCB lawyer Mansoor Yousuf appeared in court on February 12 and told the judge that the Board would not be playing the disputed six players in the Quetta team until the matter was resolved but the court should allow the remaining members of the Quetta team to play in the tournament.
The civil court agreed and accordingly gave permission to the Quetta team for participation in the Quaid Trophy. But the players association who are demanding that six of their players be picked in the Quetta side then approached the sessions court which felt that since the Board had agreed that the selection of six players was disputed the remaining members of the team should also be stayed from playing in the tournament until the matter is resolved at an hearing on Monday, February 16.
This has meant that the Quetta team now has already had two of its matches affected by court stay orders and when this court matter is resolved the Board will have to reschedule both games.
The Cricketers Association of Balochistan (CAB) have told the court they are willing to prove that the secretary of the Quetta Cricket Association allegedly took money from a player from Lahore to get him selected in the Quetta squad.
The Quetta squad was picked by the PCB-nominated members Abdul Raqeeb, Taslim Arif, Quetta team coach Raj Hans and a local cricket association member Ziauddin Kasi. Now the PCB is also facing similar problems in Hyderabad.
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By our correspondent
KARACHI: Former Pakistan captain Rashid Latif has informed the Pakistan Cricket Board’s Karachi selection committee that he is available to play for Karachi in the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy.
“I have decided to play for Karachi on the insistence of the Karachi City Cricket Association (KCCA) who felt that my presence was necessary to guide the youngsters and other players in the side,” Rashid said on Saturday.
Rashid had earlier said he would not play for Karachi because he wanted youngsters to get a chance. But the KCCA pressurized him to change his decision and he is now available to play for Karachi which automatically also makes him eligible to be considered for national selection by Wasim Bari and his fellow selectors. Rashid said he had sent a written availability confirmation to Karachi’s chief selector Abdul Raquib and also verbally confirmed he was playing.
Bari, when contacted, said he was pleased to learn Rashid would be playing for Karachi. “We (selection committee) had him in mind when we sat down to pick the probables for the home series against India. But we wanted him to play just to ensure he was match fit and available if required for Pakistan duty,” Bari said.
The selectors gave a clear indication of their preference to have Rashid on standbye in case the first choice wicketkeeper in the Pakistan team Moin Khan was not available for any reason in the series against India. Bari made it clear that the selectors believed that both Rashid and Moin were the best keepers in the country and since both were former captains and seniors they deserved respect and acknowledgement.
“When Rashid was playing we didn’t have Moin as a reserve in any camp. Because we believe it is not fair to have two such senior keepers in the probables list knowing only one can selected. We know their worth. They don’t have to prove themselves.”
The interesting part is that when the selectors announced the 22 probables for the camp that begins on 24th February in Lahore, the chief selector was pressurized by some board officials to include Kamran Akmal as a reserve keeper.
But Bari who has indirectly made his preference for Rashid clear refused to include any other keeper in the probables list.
One selector said the only reason Bari wanted Rashid to play for Karachi was that the selectors wanted him to be match fit and in form so that if need arose they could always fall back on him in the India series. The Indian team is also due to play a three-day game on their tour and indications are that Rashid might be asked to lead the local side.
Meanwhile in an interesting development Moin Khan and Danish Kaneria were both not available for selection for Karachi’s first game of the Quaid Trophy from 15th February and this was announced by the Karachi selectors.
Also not available was back up keeper in the Karachi side Atiquz Zaman. But as fate would have it the match has now been cancelled.
So in fact Moin and Danish would have directly gone into the Pakistan training camp from 24th February without playing a Quaid trophy match.*
nancyyyyyyy.. wats the score of the gamee...... i m trying to look it up on cricketinfo.. but no luck?
Imran Nazir blasts 123 of 69 balls
Imran Nazir blasts unbeaten
123 off 69 balls for Sialkot
From our correspondent
MULTAN: Imran Nazir reminded the national selectors of his existence as he unleashed a blitz of a batting display, leading Sialkot to a magnificent nine-wicket triumph over Multan, in a second-round Quaid-e-Azam Cup National One-day Cricket Tournament match here at the Multan Cricket Stadium on Sunday. In a matter of one hour 35 minutes, Imran hammered 123 not out off a mere 69 deliveries as Sialkot charged to a rollicking victory.
For the 22-year-old Gujranwala-born Imran, who has already appeared in eight Test matches and 57 One-day Internationals for Pakistan - since he was only 17, this was his fifth hundred in major limited-over matches of which he has now played 99. He sent the ball to the ropes as many as 18 times and, in addition, hit five sixes.
After electing to bat first, with skipper Aamer Bashir winning the toss, Multan floundered while managing to make only 173 runs in 44.4 overs. In the first 14 overs, they were down to 54 for five, with left-arm fast-medium bowler Zahid Saeed doing most of the damage.
Sialkot skipper Shoaib Malik, the Pakistan all-rounder, stuck around for 65 minutes with Imran, himself making 23 runs off 48 balls with two fours and a six, in a magnificent 123-run opening stand that required a mere 15 overs. Faisal Naved came in at one-drop, banged an unbeaten 18 off 22 deliveries with three fours, and Sialkot were home in only the 22nd over of their innings.
Zahid Saeed, also 22 years old and who was declared the best bowler at the 1999-00 Under-19s World cup event in Sri Lanka, captured four wickets for 31 runs in 7.4 overs yesterday. Left-arm spinner Abdul Rehman bagged 3-39 runs in his 10 overs while captain Shoaib conceded only 21 runs in his quota of 10 overs for one wicket.
For Multan, the sixth-wicket pair added 75 runs, but the last four wickets managed only a further 44. Kamran Hussain of Bahawalpur top-scored with 43 off 76 balls with six boundaries while the left-handed Rehan Rafiq contributed 28 off 64 deliveries with three fours.
Multan experienced defeat in back-to-back matches after losing by 17 runs to Lahore last Sunday. Sialkot were involved in a thriller of an encounter against Faisalabad, the latter chasing a modest target 210 and winning with only one wicket standing and a solitary over to spare.
PP07 - Karachi’s game has been delayed by a day…so it will be played today.
First Imran scored 83 and 123. I think he is poised to get a chance to play against India...which I doubt will happen. If this is not enough to make the selectors give him a chance, then I don't know what is. When players like Faisal Iqbal get selected for the squad, and Imran Nazir, who has been in great form recently, get ignored...it really makes you wonder about Pakistani Cricket.
Although the ODI squad hasn't been announced yet, I still believe the Test squad should have been announced after the Quid-e-Azam tournament, in order to select the players who are in form. Didn't the PCB say players will be picked by their performence? Lets hope players like Imran dont get ignored for the ODI squad.
^when in form, nazir does play, but his form, in international matches, lasts just a couple of matches, and then he is down to 0 the rest of the series....
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Thats true. Consistency is what he doesnt have...but after a long time he seems to be performing consistently well in the domestic games, so isn't it worth it to at least include him for the squad in case Yasir or Farhat are having a bad time? Nazir had been playing bad even in domestic cricket before this tournament, but maybe he has fixed his technique and is playing well now? You can't write a player off after ge scored 83 and 123 not out in consecutive games.
imran nazir seems to be in form :k:
Karachi’s match against Faisalabad put off for a day
By Gul Hameed Bhatti
KARACHI: The Karachi region team will have to wait another day, as their rescheduled second-round Quaid-e-Azam Cup National One-day Cricket Tournament match against Faisalabad, to be played here at the National Stadium on Sunday will now be staged on Saturday (today). The Faisalabad team was delayed after their destination was diverted from Hyderabad to Karachi.
Karachi were earlier to face Quetta in their first match of the competition on Sunday - they weren’t featured in the first-round schedule - but the latter have been restrained by a court stay order which the Cricketers Association of Balochistan (CAB) obtained against the selection of ‘ineligible’ players in the final line-up.
Even on the Sunday two weeks ago (February 8), the Quetta versus Hyderabad matches in the Quaid-e-Azam Cup one-day tournament and the first-class Quaid-e-Azam Trophy Championship - at the Niaz Stadium in Hyderabad - couldn’t materialise due to the same reason. Quetta’s second-round matches against Karachi too have been ‘postponed’.
According to the schedule released by the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB), Faisalabad were to proceed to Hyderabad to play against the latter at the Niaz Stadium yesterday. But, following Quetta’s lead, a Hyderabad player Ayaz Taifi went to court asking for justice against his non-inclusion in his region’s outfit. Thus, the Hyderabad team also cannot play for the moment.
The 27-year-old Ayaz Sheikh Taifi was not necessarily the most productive Hyderabad region batsman in the National Inter-District Senior Championship, played in September-October earlier this season. Nawabshah’s Abid Ali totalled 433 runs in five matches at an average of 54.12 with a hundred and two fifties. Ayaz was not far behind though, with a tally of 363 runs in six appearances at 40.33, and a highest of 91 among his three half-centuries.
If the Hyderabad issue is resolved by next week, they will most probably play their Quaid-e-Azam Cup limited-over match against Karachi here at the National Stadium next Sunday, on February 22. On the same date, Quetta are scheduled to play against Multan in the latter’s territory with the original Karachi versus Hyderabad game set for March 7 here at the National Stadium.
The PCB’s Domestic Cricket Minitoring Committee (DCMC) will have quite a task at hand, after the Quetta and Hyderabad issue results in an amicable solution, in rescheduling the rest of the Quaid-e-Azam Cup and Trophy tournaments. In any case, even Karachi’s match against Faisalabad has been put off for a day and the first-class Quaid-e-Azam Trophy Championship game will also start a day late, on Tuesday instead of Monday (today).
The Karachi team will be chosen from the following 14 players: Shahid Afridi (captain), Shadab Kabir, Faisal Iqbal, Asim Kamal, Hasan Raza, Farhan Adil, Ahmed Zeeshan (wk), Mohammad Sami, Tanvir Ahmed, Fahad Khan, Tahir Khan, Arif Mahmood, Saeed Bin Nasir and Naumanullah.
The appointed skipper Moin Khan, Pakistan leg-spinner Danish Kaneria and reserve wicket-keeper Atiq-uz-Zaman were not available to play for Karachi for reasons that remain undisclosed. All-rounder Arif Mahmood, a right-handed batsman and slow left-arm bowler, will be replaced in the line-up by left-arm fast-medium bowler Nasir Khan for the first-class Quaid-e-Azam Trophy match.
The Faisalabad team will most probably be picked from the following players: Misbah-ul-Haq (captain), Mohammad Hafeez, Mohammad Ramzan, Ijaz Ahmed Jr, Naved Latif, Mohammad Salman (wk), Farooq Iqbal, Tauqeer Hussain, Ahmed Hayat, Faisal Afridi, Saeed Ajmal, Asif Hussain and Shahid Nazir.
The two umpires in today’s match are Athar Zaidi and Iqbal Butt. Former Pakistan wicket-keeper Taslim Arif will serve as the match referee while Mohammad Ahsan has been appointed as the official scorer.