Sohail hammers brilliant century
Opener Sohail Idrees struck a fine 154 Tuesday as Lahore Blues put on a big second innings total against Islamabad on the third day of their Quaid-e-Azam Trophy match at the KRL Stadium
23-Jan-2002
Opener Sohail Idrees struck a fine 154 Tuesday as Lahore Blues put on
a big second innings total against Islamabad on the third day of their
Quaid-e-Azam Trophy match at the KRL Stadium.
Lahore finished the day on 382 for eight and are likely to bat on for
sometime Wednesday morning in order to give Islamabad a difficult
target to chase on the last day. The home side has a first innings
lead of 64.
The Islamabad bowlers toiled on a pitch helping the batsmen and
Lahore's Sohail made full use of the conditions to crack 15 fours and
a six in his 239-ball innings. Along with his skipper Bazid Khan who
scored 88, he was involved in a 189-run partnership for the third
wicket.
Sohail's marathon knock was finally ended by pacer Rauf Akbar, who
finished the day with five for 63. He also put the brakes on Bazid
whose 88 from 150 deliveries had nine fours. Ali Naqvi had three for
98.
Meanwhile controversy gripped the match when play ended as the Lahore
manager Hafeez-ur-Rehman complained to the referee Rizwan Khateeb that
one of the groundsmen had dug up a bit of the pitch as covers were
being brought on. But in actual fact it was Lahore's Humayun Farhat
who while batting did the damage in the danger area which led to he
being ordered by umpire Sadiq Mohammad to have his spikes changed.
The move of the Lahore manager of wrongly blaming the groundsman to
cover up a wrong of one of his players upset the Islamabad officials.
They felt that the damage done was intentional and calls for a high
level probe. They even threatened not to bat Wednesday.