Sialkot triumph by innings

Published February 15, 2002

KARACHI, Feb 14: Sialkot scored their third successive victory when they trounced Rest of Punjab by nine wickets on the penultimate day of the Quaid Trophy Grade-I match at Gymkhana Cricket Ground in Okara Thursday.

Needing only 72, Sialkot reached their target for the loss of just one wicket.

Earlier, Medium-pacer Tahir Mughal claimed five for 71 as Punjab made 250 in their second innings with Kashif Naveed falling three short of a maiden first-class century.

Tahir finished with a match haul of nine for 154 to take his season’s haul to 73 wickets in 11 matches.

Scoreboard

REST OF PUNJAB (1st Innings) 209 (Tahir Mughal 4-83).

SIALKOT (1st Innings) 388 (Shahzad Malik 74, Asim Butt 4-103).

REST OF PUNJAB (2nd Innings, overnight 64-3):

Shahid Latif c Khaleeq b Tahir 5

Asad Ali c Khaleeq b Zaman 14

Kashif Naveed c Khaleeq b Shahid 97

Saeed Anwar Jr c Mubashir b Tahir 10

Wasim Majeed c Mubashir b Shahid 38

Zeeshan Khan c Khaleeq b Shahid 30

Mohammad Fazil lbw b Tahir 0

Shafiq Ahmed c Inam b Tahir 0

Abdur Rauf b Zaman 14

Mohammad Arshad not out 1

Asim Butt c and b Tahir 9

EXTRAS (B-4, LB-3, W-5, NB-10) 22

TOTAL (all out, 68.4 overs) 250

FALL OF WKTS: 1-12, 2-30, 3-64, 4-192, 5-207, 6-212, 7-212, 8-226, 9-240.

BOWLING: Tahir Mughal 21.4-2-71-5; Zaman Haider 12-1-51-2; Shahid Khan 19-4-65-3; Aamir Wasim 10-2-43-0; Inam-ul-Haq 4-1-13-0.

SIALKOT (2nd Innings):

Inam-ul-Haq not out 38

Mubashir Dar c Fazil b A. Rauf 9

Basit Saeed not out 14

EXTRAS (B-7, LB-1, W-1, NB-5) 14

TOTAL (for one wkt, 12.3 overs) 75

FALL OF WKT: 1-40.

BOWLING: Abdur Rauf 6-0-35-1; Asim Butt 6-0-28-0; Saeed Anwar Jr 0.3-0-4-0.

UMPIRES: Feroz Butt and Islam Khan.

MATCH REFEREE: Ali Zia.

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