Cricket

Northern amass 605 for eight against Sindh in Quaid-e-Azam Trophy

Umar Amin scored a hundred for Northern on day two of the ninth round of the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy matche being played in Karachi. Over at the National Bank Cricket Arena, table-toppers Northern resumed their first innings at 350 for one and went onto cross the 600-run mark to finish with 605 for eight (declared) against Sindh.

Umar scored 140 off 198 balls (11 fours, two sixes) to spearhead his side’s batting performance following first day centuries by openers Hasan Raza and Mohammad Huraira. Faizan Riaz contributed 47 and Umar Waheed scored 35. Northern called-off their innings after 154.5 overs batting.

Sindh who are number two behind Northern in the points table, finished day-two at 52 for no loss (19 overs). Khurram Manzoor was batting on 20 and his opening partner Saim Ayub was 32 not out when stumps were drawn for the day.

 

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