KARACHI
\nKhan Research Laboratories (KRL) captain Iftikhar Ahmed suffered a bizarre dismissal during the recently concluded President\u2019s Cup Grade-I final against Pakistan Television (PTV) here at the National Bank Stadium on Thursday.The incident occurred on the final delivery of the 29th over of KRL\u2019s run chase as PTV\u2019s left-arm wrist spinner bowled a loopy length delivery from round the wicket, which pitched just outside of the off-stump\u2019s line.
\nConsidering the angle, Iftikhar expected the ball to go wide of his stumps and decided to leave it, but the ball, upon impact, came back in sharply and brushed the top of his off-stump, leaving the batter stunned. Faisal Akram clean bowls Iftikhar Ahmed for his third strike The 35-year-old stood at the crease briefly before making his way back to the dugout after scoring 25 off 38 deliveries with the help of four fours.
\nThe dismissal marked an unwanted end to Iftikhar\u2019s brilliant all-round campaign at the eight-team tournament for KRL as he accumulated 240 runs with the bat in nine innings at a decent average of 34.28 with the help of two half-centuries, besides picking up 14 wickets in as many innings at 20.07.
\nIftikhar\u2019s all-round prowess in the President\u2019s Cup Grade-I led his team to title victory and also earned him the Player of the Tournament award.
\nInterestingly, his dismissal, however, did not bother KRL\u2019s pursuit as the side eventually chased down the total comfortably for the loss of six wickets and 92 balls to spare, courtesy of Shahzaib Khan\u2019s half-century.The opening batter remained the top-scorer with an anchoring 53 off 83 deliveries, studded with four fours and a six and was thus adjudged the Player of the Match.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
KARACHI Khan Research Laboratories (KRL) captain Iftikhar Ahmed suffered a bizarre dismissal during the recently concluded President\u2019s Cup Grade-I final against Pakistan Television (PTV) here at the National Bank Stadium on Thursday.The incident occurred on the final delivery of the 29th over of KRL\u2019s run chase as PTV\u2019s left-arm wrist spinner bowled a loopy length …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":91617,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91619"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91629,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91619\/revisions\/91629"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}