Pakistan A team play draw with Australia

LAHORE - The Pakistan A team drew its match against Australia A at the Riverway Stadium, Townsville on the final day of the test on Monday. Pakistan after winning the toss put Australia into bat which got 399 with Wahad Riaz taking five wickets while Abdur Rehman and Mohammad Talha had two wickets each. Pakistan in its first innings 338, 61 runs short of the hosts. After adding 256 runs t the lead the Australians declared the innings to make the Pakistan stumble but they saw Umer Aknal score hundred and Ahmed Sarfraz get 50 to save Pakistan from defeat. SCOREBOARD AUSTRALIA A: 399, JJ Krejza 101, AC Voges 78 PAKISTAN A: 338 Azhar Ali 78 Umar Akmal 54, Sarfraz Ahmed 56 PAKISTAN: RA Broad c Sarfraz b Wahab Riaz 43 M Klinger lbw b Mohammad Hafeez 24 Ferguson c M Hafeez b Wahab Riaz 15 AC Voges c Sarfraz Ahmed b Talha 6 CL White c Sarfraz Ahmed b Rehman 77 TD Paine not out 54 MC Henriques not out 13 Did not bat: CJ McKay, JJ Krejza, DE Bollinger, JM Holland, EXTRAS: (W- 1, NB- 6, LB- 3, B- 14) 24 TOTAL: 82 Overs, wickets 5 dec 256 Fall of wickets: 1-47 (Klinger, 25.2 ov), 2-81 ( Ferguson , 38.2 ov), 3-100 (Broad, 42.1 ov), 4-111 (Voges, 45.1 ov), 5-228 (White, 76.2 ov) BOWLING: Mohammad Talha 17-2-70-1 Wahab Riaz 21-7-53-2 Abdur Rehman 27-6-69-1 Mohammad Hafeez 17-4-47-1 PAKISTAN: Azhar Ali c Paine b Bollinger 6 Khalid Latif c Voges b McKay 11 Hafeez c Paine b Henriques 31 Umar Amin c Bollinger b McKay 0 Umar Akmal not out 100 Fahad Iqbal c Ferguson b Krejza 4 Sarfraz Ahmed not out 50 Did not bat Abdur Rehman, Wahab Riaz, Naved Arif, Mohammad Talha EXTRAS: (W- 1, NB- 1, LB- 2, B- 1) 5 TOTAL: 49 Overs , five wickets 207 Fall of wickets: 1-15 (Azhar Ali, 4.6 ov), 2-23 (Khalid Latif, 7.2 ov), 3-31 (Umar Amin, 9.5 ov), 4-77 (Mohammad Hafeez, 20.5 ov), 5-109 (Fahad Iqbal, 33.6 ov) BOWLING: Bollinger 12-3-31-1 McKay 8-1-26-2 Henriques 6-5-13-1 Krejza 14-1-79-1 Holland 9-0-55-0 Toss: Pakistan A, decided to field first Umpires: Bruce Oxenford, Ian Lock Referee: RJ Evans Result: Match drawn.

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