Saad’s ton gives K-Electric huge lead

KARACHI: Saad Ali hit a glorious 101 with 12 fours and a six to enable K-Electric to gain a huge lead against Customs when they reached 470-8 in their first innings in response to their rivals’ 197 on the second day of their third round Group A match of Patron’s Trophy Grade II here at UBL Ground No1 on Wednesday.
Behram Khan (59), Majid Khan (51) and Javed Mansoor (51) struck fine fifties.
Ramiz Shehzad and Ghulam Mudassir got three wickets each.
Customs reached 113-2 in their second innings with Zubair Khan scoring 63 with 12 fours.
They need 160 more runs to avoid an innings defeat.
Here at NBP Sports Complex, Navy secured 179 runs lead when they bowled Medicam out for 254 in their first innings after posting 433-5.
Shahzar Hassan scored 88, which featured ten fours. Nadeem Shehzad belted 55 with 11 fours. Arif Khan made 52 with four fours.
Abdul Latif and Nasir Awais captured four wickets each.
Navy were 111-4 in their second innings, having an overall lead of 290.
At RLCA Ground here, Qambar Iqbal (120) and Ahmer Bin Nasir (100) blasted fine centuries to enable Sindh Police to gain 141 runs lead when they were bowled out for 436 in their first innings after starting the day at 76-0 in response to Saudi Cricket International’s total of 295-8.
Qambar hit 11 fours and five sixes, while Ahmer smashed eight fours in his fine innings.
Junaid Nadeem got five and Naved Khan picked three wickets.
Saudi Cricket International were 132-2 in their second innings at stumps. Naveed Khan was batting on 73 which featured 14 fours.
In a Group B clash, at National Ground, Islamabad, Capital Development Authority (CDA) were in a strong position as they posted 176-3 at stumps in response to Humak Engineering’s first innings total of 169 all out.
Naved Malik was at the crease on 82 in which he hit nine fours and three sixes. Mohammad Nazir got 2-36.
Left-arm spinner Imad Wasim picked 5-14 to enable CDA to dismiss Humak Enginering for a low total. Saboor Wadood struck 45-ball 43 with four fours and three sixes.
The first day’s play had been hit by rain.
At Pindi Stadium, Rawalpindi, after a rain-hit first day, NADRA reached 307-9 in their second innings against Army as both the teams forfeited their first innings.
Mohammad Naqash slammed 120 with 16 fours, while Mohammad Nadeem (54) and Aamir Jamal (51*) struck fifties. Khadim Jan and Ulfat Hussain claimed two wickets each.
In a Group C show, at Jinnah Stadium, Islamabad, Asim Textile posted 163-4 in their first innings in response to Karachi Port Trust’s (KPT) 175.
Hamza Javed hit unbeaten 55 with four fours and a six. Faisal Bin Mubashir made 43. Adeeel Malik got 3-55.
KPT resumed their first innings at 61-3 and were folded for 175. Faraz Patel made 41. Zahir Siddiqui bowled brilliantly, picking 7-64.
At Model Town Greens Ground, Lahore, Brighto Paints gained 262 runs lead when they posted 352-6 declared in response to Candyland’s first innings total of 90.
Akbar Badshah made 108 with six fours. Haris Nazar hit 60 with four fours.
Faisal Javed picked four wickets.
Candyland were 55-1 in their second innings at close. They need 208 more runs to avoid an innings defeat.
Face Fresh were reeling at 177-7 in response to Income Tax’s first innings score of 260 at Stags Ground, Lahore, in a Group D outing.
At LCCA Ground, Lahore, Dollar East were in deep trouble against Khayaban-e-Amin. After being forced to follow on they were 52-1 in their second innings.
In response to Khayaban-e-Amin’s 378-9, Dollar East perished for 170 in the first innings.
At Khayaban-e-Amin Ground, Lahore, Higher Education Commission posted 391-6 in their first innings against Services Industries after the first day’s play was washed out due to rain.
Services Industries were ten without loss at stumps.