Salman Butt makes double-ton and Bazid makes Triple ton

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Salman Butt makes batting look so easy with double-ton

LAHORE: Pakistan’s young opening batsman Salman Butt made mincemeat of a Karachi Whites bowling attack, which after four matches in the competition suddenly appeared pedestrian and extremely ordinary, as he finished the opening day of Lahore Whites’ four-day, fifth-round 47th Quaid-e-Azam Trophy Cricket Championship match, here at the Gaddafi Stadium on Wednesday, with an unbeaten double-hundred while his team put up a magnificent 362 runs for the loss of just one wicket by the draw of stumps.

The 20-year-old, left-handed Salman, who has appeared in a Test match and five One-day Internationals for Pakistan and is also in the line-up for the celebratory one-off ODI to be played against India in Kolkata, sent the ball to the Gaddafi Stadium boundary ropes as many as 42 times as he scored 206 not out by the day’s close.

Fellow left-hander Taufeeq Umar, who has returned to the national side after having recovered from a knee ailment, sent Lahore Whites to a flying start with Salman as 123 runs were made for the opening partnership in just over an hour and three-quarters. Salman then got involved in an unbroken 239-run stand for the second wicket with Kamran Sajid, yet another left-handed batsman.

Strangely, after putting Lahore Whites in first, skipper Faisal Iqbal found his meagre bowling resouces way below the required mark. Karachi Whites actually share the second spot in the tournament’s ranking — with Sialkot — after four matches with 21 points from two wins and two draws. Lahore Whites, on the other hand, are languishing at the number 10 position in the 11-team table, with two losses and a draw after three games.

Salman, Taufeeq and Kamran Sajid have apparently turned Lahore Whites’ fortunes on their head in a matter of a single five and a half-hour, 83-over day.

Salman, who has attained his fifth century - his first double - in 24 first-class matches, has batted for a total of 327 minutes and faced 270 deliveries. Taufeeq made 45 off just 61 balls with six fours. Kamran Sajid, who turns 21 next month, has so far been at the crease for three hours 40 minutes, scoring an unbeaten 78, off 177 balls with 11 boundaries.

While most Karachi Whites bowlers looked ordinary, off-spinner Tahir Khan seemed quite impressive. He had day’s figures of none for 75 runs from 29 overs but, still, failed to taste success after having already become the highest individual wicket-taker in the ongoing tournament - with 23 wickets at 27 runs apiece in his team’s previous four matches.

Scoreboard

Karachi Whites won toss

Lahore Whites 1st inns

Salman Butt batting 206

Taufeeq Umar lbw b Rajesh 45

Kamran Sajid batting 78

Extras (b8, lb10, w5, nb10) 33

Total (one wkt, 83 overs) 362

Fall: 1-123

Bowling: Rajesh Ramesh 21-2-95-1 (2w); Fahad Khan 17-1-102-0 (8nb, 3w); Asad Sharifullah 13-2-64-0; Tahir Khan 29-9-75-0 (2nb); Zeeshan Pervez 3-0-8-0

Umpires: Z I Pasha and Shakeel Khan. Match referee: Azhar Khan. Official scorer: Syed Najam-us-Saeed

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this means he can be a handy opener in test too :mash: :jhanda:

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yeh baaaaaaaaat :k:

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oopsy right on WOOLMER face.what an ANSWER Shbaash Pak Jawan :D.now what woolmer gonna say

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200 against fellow cricketers, though a good score but not something rare. Recently Ashar Zaidi hit 200+ against Zimbabwe team in a side match but went unnoticed so far.

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this innings will be really important for bootie as it might be the key for him to get a test cap :k:

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I agree with Captain1. I understand that making 200 plus requires a lot of guts, but please keep in mind, he did in in the domestic season against "domestic" bowlers. At international level it is a completely different ball game. If the opponents bowling doesn't get you, than the pressure will, for sure. As it is been said, time and time again, that Cricket is all about how you handle Pressure situations. Let's see how he does in the match against India (in India, mind you), provided that he selected in the final 11......

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*Originally posted by aash73: *
I agree with Captain1. I understand that making 200 plus requires a lot of guts, but please keep in mind, he did in in the domestic season against "domestic" bowlers. At international level it is a completely different ball game. If the opponents bowling doesn't get you, than the pressure will, for sure. As it is been said, time and time again, that Cricket is all about how you handle Pressure situations. Let's see how he does in the match against India (in India, mind you), provided that he selected in the final 11......
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Well if you're not going to play him in Int'l test matches, then the only other yardstick for performance we have IS domestic performances. How else should he display his ability to "cope" with pressure?

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I, by no means, am not saying that he shouldn't be playing in the international cricket. I am merely stating that, all of us know how good he performed on the domestic level, let's see how well he copes with the pressure in india.

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our domestic cricket is weak so tons against fellow paks' won't necessarily mean some 1 is in good nick, players like ijaz Ahmed, saleem malik in their prime murdered bowlers when they played for their domestic teams but weren't always successful in carrying forward that momentum onto the international scene, we need to make our domestic circuit much stronger. For example some of the Aussie state sides like Queensland can give most international sides a run for their money that is quality domestic cricket not what we see in Pakistan unfortunately.

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guyz u've to keep in mind 200 and a 20years old.that's the major point to look at.he's akid only 20 and scored 200 MashAllah

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So much for Salman's double ton. Bazid scores a triple ton against Hyderabad today, Take that!!

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and bazid struggled against zimbabwe in the paktel cup rite?

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I, by no means, am not saying that he shouldn't be playing in the international cricket. I am merely stating that, all of us know how good he performed on the domestic level, let's see how well he copes with the pressure in india.
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India is not a "measuring cup of quality" as they have to prove some quality of their own. Probably you wanted to say that India-Pak games are always on the wire and closeones. But Players love to play India-Pak games. its not the pressure but the intoxication of winning with india when so many are watching.

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Butt sahab chaa gea ne!!

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superb :jhanda:

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and bazid struggled against zimbabwe in the paktel cup rite?

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well,it was his debut wasnt it? he wasnt given enough time to prove himself.

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Bazid Khan joins elite list with 300 not out

From our correspondent

HYDERABAD: Rawalpindi’s Bazid Khan reached a significant career milestone when he compiled an unbeaten triple century, on the second day of his team’s four-day, fifth-round 47th Quaid-e-Azam Trophy Championship match against Hyderabad, here at the Niaz Stadium on Thursday. The 23-year-old Bazid’s previous highest in first-class cricket was 193 not out, that he’d made during the last season.

The son of a Pakistan great, Majid Khan, Bazid has been a prominent Pakistan junior teams captain and now has two full One-day Internationals to his credit, matches that he played in the recent tri-nation series involving Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe. On Wednesday, he’d already reached his first-class career’s sixth century, an unbeaten 146 in Rawalpindi’s 314 for three.

The Rawalpindi captain Rao Iftikhar declared the innings closed at 581 for eight as soon as Bazid completed an unbeaten 300. By the close of play, hosts Hyderabad were in some trouble having lost two wickets for 57 runs, both victims being claimed by Iftikhar’s fast-medium bowling.

Bazid’s triple-hundred is the 15th such score attained by a Pakistani batsman, although Gul Mahomed made his 319 in 1946-47 in the Indian Ranji Trophy before he migrated to Pakistan. Imtiaz Ahmed was playing as a guest player for a combined team in India when he hit an unbeaten 300 in Bombay against the touring Commonwealth XI of 1950-51.

On top of the list of these distinguished Pakistani batsmen is the legendary Hanif Mohammad, who had scored the then world record 499 for Karachi against Bahawalpur in a Quaid-e-Azam Trophy Championship semifinal at the Karachi Parsi Institute (KPI) Ground in Karachi in the 1958-59 season.

Bazid stayed at the crease for just eight minutes short of nine hours while facing 433 deliveries and hitting 25 fours and one six. After a 141-run stand for the second wicket with Bilal Asad (66) on Wednesday, he extended his third-wicket liaison with Naved Ashraf to 153 runs yesterday.

Naved also made 66 runs, off 113 balls in two hours 35 minutes with seven fours. Bazid then got involved in three consecutive stands of 52, 53 and 83 runs for the fifth, sixth and seventh wickets, respectively. The unbroken ninth-wicket partnership was worth 40 runs as Bazid was able to get to 300.

Rawalpindi, after four matches remain unbeaten but have won only one and drawn three of those games. Of their three matches, the rather lowly-rated Hyderabad have lost one and drawn the other two.

Scoreboard

Hyderabad won toss

Rawalpindi 1st inns (overnight 314-3)

Ashar Zaidi c Rizwan b Kashif 7

Babar Naeem c Zafar b Hanif 34

Bazid Khan not out 300

Bilal Asad c Akhtar b Mazhar 66

Naved Ashraf c Zafar b Mazhar 66

Usman Saeed run out 10

*Rao Iftikhar st Zafar b Nasir 32

Alamgir Khan c Zafar b Rizwan 30

†Adnan Naved lbw b Rizwan 0

Najaf Shah not out 5

Extras (b6, lb4, w12, nb9) 31

Total (8 wkts dec, 141.3 overs) 581

Did not bat: Yasin Bari

Fall: 1-22, 2-59, 3-200, 4-353, 5-405, 6-458, 7-541, 8-541

Bowling: Kashif Raza 24-3-58-1; Mazhar Ali 27-1-121-2 (6nb, 5w); Rehan Riaz 21-2-103-0 (3nb); Hanif-ur-Rehman 6-1-33-1 (1w); Nasir Awais 35.3-2-119-1; Rizwan Ahmed 23.3-0-110-2; Faisal Athar 4.3-0-27-0 (2w)

Hyderabad 1st inns

Akhtar Bangash c Babar b Iftikhar 22

Akram Khan batting 17

†Zafar Ali c Adnan b Iftikhar 11

Rehan Riaz batting 1

Extras (b4, w2) 6

Total (2 wkts, 20 overs) 57

To bat: *Faisal Athar, Shahid Qambrani, Hanif-ur-Rehman, Rizwan Ahmed, Nasir Awais, Kashif Raza, Mazhar Ali

Fall: 1-40, 2-55

Bowling: Rao Iftikhar 10-1-36-2 (1w); Najaf Shah 6-0-17-0; Alamgir Khan 4-4-0-0

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Ashar Zaidi c Rizwan b Kashif 7

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Captain1, here is ur ashar zaidi :)

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Captain1, here is ur ashar zaidi :)
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Nancy, when I mentioned about Ashar, I didn't mean to say that he was next Zaheer Abbas or Bradman :p , all batsmen do get out cheaply at times and score big other times. What I meant to suggest was that a double ton in domestic competition shouldn't be taken as yard stick unless someone scores double ton every other game.

Remember whenever a Pakistani player was outperforming everyone in England's county matches and was brought back into national team he didn't perform as good as in the county games ??? Why? because interenational games are a different story altogether ;)

I hope that helps :)