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SINDH!!!!!!!!
🥳🥳
YES!!! Sindh led by Shahid Afridi won the ABN AMRO PENTANGULAR CUP! 👏👏This was quite a high profile domestic tournament with almost all the test players taking part in it.😃 It was based on single-league basis...so there was no final as such (just a point system). Federal Areas had 18 points...
Sind n Punjab both had 12 points. The winner was to get 6 points if it conceeded first innings lead and 9 points if it won with a 1st innings lead.
Punjab vs Sindh match started from the 11th March and was a four day match but Sindh wrapped it up today (in 3 days) winning by an innings and 31 runs!!!!👏 All experts and ex cricketers were eagerly waiting for this clash particularly because Sindh's bowling line-up was not made of superstars yet it was lethal...and Punjab's batting line-up had been phenominal throughout the tournament...they even made 500 odd runs in a single day in a match...(but that was coz of the graveyard wicket..actually, they had played all their matches on graveyards and this was the first one they played on a lively track!!!) The pitch at National Stadium had been excellent throughout the tournament unlike the pitches at Punjab...!
Shoaib Malik did not play the match coz his mother's ill. So Misbah was captaining the side..!
Afridi's boys were amazing!! They batted well.....bowled well....fielded well throughout the tournament...👏👏They were truly deserving!!👏Sindh was the only team to win 3 of its 4 matches.The one they lost was against Federal Areas which Sind lost by just 1 wicket!!🤓
Credit for Sindh's victory goes to first of all it's captain Afridi who kept his side alive, himself bowled well with a good captaincy!!! then to Sohail Khan (the same guy who took a record 65 wickets in Quaid Trophy) who emerged as the highest wicket taker of the tournament...then Anwar Ali (the 2006 Pak U-19 star), Fawad Alam, Rizwan Ahmed, Sarfaraz Ahmed and Faisal Iqbal.👏👏 The best thing about victory was that they had always done it wid team effort...they didn't draw any match....played all its matches on tricky wickets and still won the tournament!!
Following is the scorecard for this do-and-die match:
Toss Sind, who chose to field first
Points Sind 9, Punjab (Pakistan) 0
Series Sind won the 2007/08 ABN-AMRO Pentangular Cup
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Winners: Sindh
Runners-up: Federal Areas
Best Batsman: Salman Butt (for his tons on graveyard pitches)
Best Bowler: Sohail Khan
Best Wicket keeper: Kamran Akmal (GOD knows why..maybe coz of those half a dozen catches and run outs he missed...and those avg 15 runs he gave in each match as byes😡 seriously, Sarfaraz had been outstanding wid the bat n gloves..still they didnt giv it to him!!😕)
Best Fielder: (yet to be decided)
PLAYER OF THE TOURNAMENT: SOHAIL TANVIR!👏
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I went to watch the match today....😳and guess wat!!😛I spent most of my time with the players of the Sindh team...(coz my bro was wid me n he's a friend of Fawad....and other players also know him coz of my cousin!!!)😛
I had some interesting experience which I'll tell u later....
and I also noticed some stupid things about this tournament...actually...not about the tournament..but about some injustices done wid some players!
🥳🥳
YES!!! Sindh led by Shahid Afridi won the ABN AMRO PENTANGULAR CUP! 👏👏This was quite a high profile domestic tournament with almost all the test players taking part in it.😃 It was based on single-league basis...so there was no final as such (just a point system). Federal Areas had 18 points...
Sind n Punjab both had 12 points. The winner was to get 6 points if it conceeded first innings lead and 9 points if it won with a 1st innings lead.
Punjab vs Sindh match started from the 11th March and was a four day match but Sindh wrapped it up today (in 3 days) winning by an innings and 31 runs!!!!👏 All experts and ex cricketers were eagerly waiting for this clash particularly because Sindh's bowling line-up was not made of superstars yet it was lethal...and Punjab's batting line-up had been phenominal throughout the tournament...they even made 500 odd runs in a single day in a match...(but that was coz of the graveyard wicket..actually, they had played all their matches on graveyards and this was the first one they played on a lively track!!!) The pitch at National Stadium had been excellent throughout the tournament unlike the pitches at Punjab...!
Shoaib Malik did not play the match coz his mother's ill. So Misbah was captaining the side..!
Afridi's boys were amazing!! They batted well.....bowled well....fielded well throughout the tournament...👏👏They were truly deserving!!👏Sindh was the only team to win 3 of its 4 matches.The one they lost was against Federal Areas which Sind lost by just 1 wicket!!🤓
Credit for Sindh's victory goes to first of all it's captain Afridi who kept his side alive, himself bowled well with a good captaincy!!! then to Sohail Khan (the same guy who took a record 65 wickets in Quaid Trophy) who emerged as the highest wicket taker of the tournament...then Anwar Ali (the 2006 Pak U-19 star), Fawad Alam, Rizwan Ahmed, Sarfaraz Ahmed and Faisal Iqbal.👏👏 The best thing about victory was that they had always done it wid team effort...they didn't draw any match....played all its matches on tricky wickets and still won the tournament!!
Following is the scorecard for this do-and-die match:
| Sind v Punjab (Pakistan) | 2007/08 season |
| Played at National Stadium, Karachi, on 11,12,13 March 2008 (4-day match) Result Sind won by an innings and 31 runs |
| Punjab (Pakistan) 1st innings | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| Salman Butt | c Sarfraz Ahmed b Sohail Khan | 20 | 39 | 27 | 2 | 0 | 74.07 | |
| Mohammad Hafeez | c Khalid Latif b Abdul Ameer | 17 | 96 | 65 | 3 | 0 | 26.15 | |
| Nasir Jamshed | c Rizwan Ahmed b Anwar Ali | 21 | 60 | 36 | 3 | 0 | 58.33 | |
| Misbah-ul-Haq | c Sarfraz Ahmed b Sohail Khan | 4 | 32 | 16 | 1 | 0 | 25.00 | |
| Ammar Mahmood | c Sarfraz Ahmed b Sohail Khan | 15 | 39 | 31 | 3 | 0 | 48.38 | |
| Adnan Raza | c Shahid Afridi b Rizwan Ahmed | 45 | 138 | 100 | 6 | 0 | 45.00 | |
| Kamran Akmal | c Sarfraz Ahmed b Sohail Khan | 6 | 39 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 31.57 | |
| Abdur Rehman | c Rizwan Ahmed b Shahid Afridi | 21 | 70 | 51 | 0 | 0 | 41.17 | |
| Junaid Zia | not out | 8 | 41 | 32 | 1 | 0 | 25.00 | |
| Fahad Masood | lbw b Rizwan Ahmed | 2 | 9 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 28.57 | |
| Wahab Riaz | c Naumanullah b Shahid Afridi | 4 | 8 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 44.44 | |
| Extras | (b 4, lb 7, nb 10) | 21 | ||||||
| Total | (all out; 63.5 overs) | 184 | (2.88 runs per over) |
| Fall of wickets1-39, 2-68, 3-72, 4-93, 5-94, 6-113, 7-158, 8-167, 9-171, 10-184 |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | ||
| Sohail Khan | 23 | 6 | 58 | 4 | 2.52 | ||
| Anwar Ali | 16 | 4 | 59 | 1 | 3.68 | (3nb) | |
| Abdul Ameer | 13 | 5 | 29 | 1 | 2.23 | (5nb) | |
| Shahid Afridi | 9.5 | 3 | 25 | 2 | 2.54 | (2nb) | |
| Rizwan Ahmed | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1.00 |
| Sind 1st innings | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| Khurram Manzoor | c Mohammad Hafeez b Fahad Masood | 36 | 100 | 71 | 4 | 0 | 50.70 | |
| Khalid Latif | c Salman Butt b Wahab Riaz | 21 | 40 | 25 | 4 | 0 | 84.00 | |
| Naumanullah | c Kamran Akmal b Wahab Riaz | 6 | 18 | 15 | 1 | 0 | 40.00 | |
| Rizwan Ahmed | c Misbah-ul-Haq b Wahab Riaz | 79 | 238 | 161 | 10 | 1 | 49.06 | |
| Faisal Iqbal | c Kamran Akmal b Wahab Riaz | 65 | 191 | 123 | 7 | 0 | 52.84 | |
| Fawad Alam | c Kamran Akmal b Junaid Zia | 43 | 133 | 102 | 3 | 0 | 42.15 | |
| Shahid Afridi | c Fahad Masood b Mohammad Hafeez | 14 | 17 | 13 | 2 | 0 | 107.69 | |
| Sarfraz Ahmed | not out | 82 | 187 | 108 | 5 | 1 | 75.92 | |
| Anwar Ali | not out | 33 | 78 | 59 | 0 | 1 | 55.93 | |
| Extras | (b 15, lb 9, w 1, nb 13) | 38 | ||||||
| Total | (7 wickets dec; 111 overs) | 417 | (3.75 runs per over) |
| Did not bat Sohail Khan, Abdul Ameer |
| Fall of wickets1-47, 2-59, 3-86, 4-224, 5-227, 6-248, 7-336 |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | ||
| Wahab Riaz | 28 | 2 | 99 | 4 | 3.53 | (9nb, 1w) | |
| Junaid Zia | 22 | 2 | 92 | 1 | 4.18 | (3nb) | |
| Fahad Masood | 29 | 3 | 78 | 1 | 2.68 | ||
| Abdur Rehman | 20 | 2 | 78 | 0 | 3.90 | (1nb) | |
| Mohammad Hafeez | 12 | 1 | 46 | 1 | 3.83 |
| Punjab (Pakistan) 2nd innings | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| Mohammad Hafeez | c Naumanullah b Shahid Afridi | 17 | 72 | 52 | 3 | 0 | 32.69 | |
| Nasir Jamshed | lbw b Shahid Afridi | 27 | 54 | 36 | 3 | 0 | 75.00 | |
| Ammar Mahmood | lbw b Shahid Afridi | 40 | 138 | 85 | 7 | 0 | 47.05 | |
| Misbah-ul-Haq | c Naumanullah b Sohail Khan | 51 | 84 | 72 | 4 | 3 | 70.83 | |
| Adnan Raza | run out (Shahid Afridi) | 0 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| Salman Butt | not out | 29 | 81 | 41 | 6 | 0 | 70.73 | |
| Kamran Akmal | c Fawad Alam b Anwar Ali | 0 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| Abdur Rehman | lbw b Anwar Ali | 6 | 21 | 19 | 1 | 0 | 31.57 | |
| Junaid Zia | b Anwar Ali | 9 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 112.50 | |
| Wahab Riaz | c Khurram Manzoor b Anwar Ali | 0 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| Fahad Masood | lbw b Sohail Khan | 9 | 12 | 13 | 1 | 0 | 69.23 | |
| Extras | (b 2, lb 4, nb 8) | 14 | ||||||
| Total | (all out; 55 overs) | 202 | (3.67 runs per over) |
| Fall of wickets1-43, 2-54, 3-141, 4-145, 5-157, 6-162, 7-178, 8-188, 9-188, 10-202 |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | ||
| Sohail Khan | 13 | 4 | 41 | 2 | 3.15 | ||
| Abdul Ameer | 9 | 2 | 31 | 0 | 3.44 | (3nb) | |
| Anwar Ali | 16 | 5 | 45 | 4 | 2.81 | ||
| Shahid Afridi | 16 | 4 | 60 | 3 | 3.75 | (1nb) | |
| Rizwan Ahmed | 1 | 0 | 19 | 0 | 19.00 |
Points Sind 9, Punjab (Pakistan) 0
Series Sind won the 2007/08 ABN-AMRO Pentangular Cup
------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------ ---
Winners: Sindh
Runners-up: Federal Areas
Best Batsman: Salman Butt (for his tons on graveyard pitches)
Best Bowler: Sohail Khan
Best Wicket keeper: Kamran Akmal (GOD knows why..maybe coz of those half a dozen catches and run outs he missed...and those avg 15 runs he gave in each match as byes😡 seriously, Sarfaraz had been outstanding wid the bat n gloves..still they didnt giv it to him!!😕)
Best Fielder: (yet to be decided)
PLAYER OF THE TOURNAMENT: SOHAIL TANVIR!👏
------------------------------------------------------------ ---------------------------------
I went to watch the match today....😳and guess wat!!😛I spent most of my time with the players of the Sindh team...(coz my bro was wid me n he's a friend of Fawad....and other players also know him coz of my cousin!!!)😛
I had some interesting experience which I'll tell u later....
and I also noticed some stupid things about this tournament...actually...not about the tournament..but about some injustices done wid some players!
Anupamaa
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