Northern’s bowler Athar Mehmood has ended up with nine wickets as Match 15th of the Quaid e Azam trophy ended in his team’s favour, battling versus Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The table toppers met the last-placed team on 21st September and ended the match on Day 4 following a poor batting display from KPK.
Their batting line-up was certainly demolished by good-going NOR bowlers, including Mehmood’s three and six-wicket hauls in first and second innings of KPK respectively. Although he conceded runs near 100 in KPK’s first inning, but managed crucial wickets, including those of the openers.
He helped restricting KPK on 175, assisting his batters develop a lead later amassing 249 runs with the help of Sarmad Bhatti’s 114. In the second inning, he plucked six wickets and helped KPK fall below par on 121. Due to Athar’s bowling, his team’s batter easily chased a minnow lead on the fall of one wicket, to close the game by nine-wicket win.
Athar Mehmood scripts Northern’s third win of Quaid-e-Azam Trophy 2022-23 – https://t.co/p4IqBzXaAY pic.twitter.com/8dY09zVJvy
— SportslinkPK (@sportslinkpk92) October 24, 2022
Notably, NOR enjoy the first spot on the QeAT 2022-23 points table with three out of five wins, helping them gather 91 points. Surprisingly, they have lost none as the rest of the two ended in a draw. On the other hand, KPK, who were amazing the lookouts from last two years in their domestic ventures, are placed last on the table with two match drawn and zero victories.
NORTHERN Registered 3rd win out of 5 games in QEA Trophy 2022 .
Exceptional inning from sarmad bhatti 114 on difficult conditions.@iaamirjamal were on the spot in 1st inning with 38/5 and Athar mehmood took his 40 for 6 with maiden 6fer( career best )
,🏏❤️🤝👏👏👏👏 pic.twitter.com/yiUGLPu9db— SAMI ULLAH NIAZI (@saminiazi666) October 23, 2022
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