{"id":17845,"date":"2021-01-04T12:42:27","date_gmt":"2021-01-04T13:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=17845"},"modified":"2021-01-04T14:08:15","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T14:08:15","slug":"usman-saad-hold-charge-as-cp-needs-216-runs-to-win-qea-trophy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=17845","title":{"rendered":"Usman, Saad hold charge as CP needs 216 runs to win QeA Trophy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin: 5px 5% 10px 5%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/arysports.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/CP.jpg\" width=\"742\" height=\"486\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Karachi: Usman Salahuddin (51*) and Mohammad Saad (27*) held Central Punjab (CP) strongly as they finished the second last day of the Quaid-e-Azam (QeA) Trophy&#8217;s final at 140-2 against Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK), with 216 more runs behind to win the tournament.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Defending champions CP covered a long and tough journey this year to reach the final, Usman and Saad made efforts to save their team&#8217;s struggle throughout. Joining hands at 89-2, Usman and Saad held their nerves calm and gently played the twilight phase of the day, scoring 51 runs together for the third wicket partnership.<\/p>\n<p>Usman remained not out for 51 off 142 balls while Mohammad Saad remained not out for 27 with only two boundaries in his account.<\/p>\n<p>Arshad Iqbal and Sajid Khan, the tournament&#8217;s highest wicket-taker so far, took a wicket each for KPK.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, KPK were bowled out for 312 runs after getting the first-inning lead of 43 runs. Kamran Ghulam scored 108 runs, becoming the highest run-scorer in a single First-Class season ever with 1249 runs in 11 matches.<\/p>\n<p>The record-breaking knock from Kamran helped KPK set a 356-runs target for CP in this year&#8217;s QeA Trophy final.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/arysports.tv\/kamran-awaits-pakistan-call-up-record-first-class-season\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kamran awaits Pakistan call-up after record-breaking first-class season<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Karachi: Usman Salahuddin (51*) and Mohammad Saad (27*) held Central Punjab (CP) strongly as they finished the second last day of the Quaid-e-Azam (QeA) Trophy&#8217;s <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=17845\" title=\"Usman, Saad hold charge as CP needs 216 runs to win QeA Trophy\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17845"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17845"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17847,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17845\/revisions\/17847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}