Abid Ali hits first ton since return, Aamir records best figures in Quaid Trophy.

LAHORE -- Last year in December, Abid Ali was batting at 61 against Khyber Pakhtunkhwa at the UBL Sports Complex, Karachi when he was rushed to a cardiac hospital. He was diagnosed with a case of Acute Coronary Syndrome that kept him away from cricket for four months. On Friday, batting against the same opposition, albeit at a different venue, the right-hander scored his first first-class century since returning to first-class cricket.

Abid scored a brilliant 159 off 287 balls that saw Central Punjab to 418-7 - in reply of KP's imposing 436 - at the close of third day's at the LCCA Ground in round seven of the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy 2022-23. Over the course of what was his 26th first-class ton, Abid struck 21 fours and two sixes in almost a six-hour-long innings that began yesterday evening. He put 209 runs for the first wicket with Abdullah Shafique, who fell one run short of his seventh first-class century.

Abdullah reclaimed the top spot as the leading run scorer (636 at 70.67) during his knock as he struck 11 fours and...