f27164	Central Zone v Commonwealth XI
	Commonwealth XI in Pakistan 1967/68
Venue	Sports Stadium, Sargodha on 6th, 7th, 8th March 1968 (3-day match)
Balls per over	6
Toss	Central Zone won the toss and decided to bat
Result	Commonwealth XI won by 9 wickets
Umpires	Gulzar Mir, Nazar Mohammad
Close of play day 1	Commonwealth XI (1) 174/4 (Mushtaq Mohammad ?*, Walker ?*)
Close of play day 2	Central Zone (2) 147/4 (Abdur Rauf 7*)

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Central Zone first innings		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s
*Aftab Gul	lbw b Shepherd	17
Javed-ur-Rehman	lbw b Boyce	15
+Hamid Nagra	b Boyce	0
Javed Bhatti	lbw b Benaud	5
Masood Akhtar	lbw b Shepherd	1
Shafiq Ahmed	not out	21
Abdur Rauf	b Benaud	2
Sherandaz Khan	lbw b Mushtaq Mohammad	41
Niaz Ahmed	lbw b Mushtaq Mohammad	6
Bashir Haider	b Mushtaq Mohammad	0
Abdul Wahab	c and b Allen	4
Extras	(5 b, 2 lb, 1 nb)	8
Total	(all out, 47.4 overs)	120
Fall of wickets:
1-22, 2-22, 3-34, 4-39, 5-44, 6-50, 7-105, 8-115, 9-115, 10-120 (47.4 ov)

Commonwealth XI bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls
Boyce	8	3	27	2	-	-
Walker	4	0	8	0	-	-
Shepherd	7	2	11	2	-	-
Benaud	8	4	10	2	-	-
Allen	12.4	6	30	1	-	-
Mushtaq Mohammad	8	2	26	3	-	-

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Commonwealth XI first innings		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s
MJ Edwards	c Javed Bhatti b Niaz Ahmed	6
BW Luckhurst	c Sherandaz Khan b Bashir Haider	4
AR Lewis	c Hamid Nagra b Bashir Haider	73
*R Benaud	lbw b Niaz Ahmed	71
Mushtaq Mohammad	c Sherandaz Khan b Javed Bhatti	49
PM Walker	c Sherandaz Khan b Niaz Ahmed	14
+JT Murray	b Javed Bhatti	11
KD Boyce	b Javed Bhatti	23
DA Allen	not out	5
DJ Shepherd	c Niaz Ahmed b Javed Bhatti	0
JH Hampshire	did not bat
Extras	(25 b, 4 lb)	29
Total	(9 wickets, declared, 71.3 overs)	285
Fall of wickets:
1-10, 2-10, 3-160, 4-160, 5-197, 6-239, 7-254, 8-285, 9-285 (71.3 ov)

Central Zone bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls
Niaz Ahmed	20	4	58	3	-	-
Bashir Haider	21	1	76	2	-	-
Abdur Rauf	5	0	22	0	-	-
Abdul Wahab	12	2	45	0	-	-
Sherandaz Khan	3	0	17	0	-	-
Shafiq Ahmed	3	1	20	0	-	-
Javed Bhatti	7.3	0	18	4	-	-

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Central Zone second innings		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s
*Aftab Gul	b Benaud	76
Javed-ur-Rehman	c Murray b Allen	51
+Hamid Nagra	c Walker b Allen	8
Javed Bhatti	c Luckhurst b Allen	0
Abdur Rauf	c Walker b Allen	8
Shafiq Ahmed	lbw b Allen	7
Masood Akhtar	st Murray b Benaud	28
Sherandaz Khan	lbw b Benaud	4
Niaz Ahmed	c Luckhurst b Benaud	13
Bashir Haider	not out	2
Abdul Wahab	b Benaud	0
Extras	(7 b, 3 lb, 2 nb)	12
Total	(all out, 99 overs)	209
Fall of wickets:
1-121, 2-134, 3-136, 4-147, 5-150, 6-183, 7-193, 8-198, 9-209, 10-209 (99 ov)

Commonwealth XI bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls
Boyce	16	6	41	0	-	-
Walker	12	5	17	0	-	-
Shepherd	15	6	23	0	-	-
Benaud	18	5	29	5	-	-
Allen	31	11	65	5	-	-
Mushtaq Mohammad	7	1	22	0	-	-

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Commonwealth XI second innings		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s
BW Luckhurst	run out	5
+JT Murray	not out	26
AR Lewis	not out	13
MJ Edwards	did not bat
*R Benaud	did not bat
Mushtaq Mohammad	did not bat
PM Walker	did not bat
KD Boyce	did not bat
DA Allen	did not bat
DJ Shepherd	did not bat
JH Hampshire	did not bat
Extras	(2 lb)	2
Total	(1 wicket, 11.3 overs)	46
Fall of wickets:
1-5 (Luckhurst)

Central Zone bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls
Niaz Ahmed	5	1	23	0	-	-
Bashir Haider	4	2	7	0	-	-
Aftab Gul	1.3	0	10	0	-	-
Javed-ur-Rehman	1	0	4	0	-	-

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Notes
--> Abdur Rauf made his last appearance in First-Class matches
--> R Benaud (1) passed 11500 runs in First-Class matches when he reached 68

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