KARACHI: The Karachi Port Trust (KPT) on Monday were cruelly denied qualifying for the final of the Patron’s Trophy (Grade-II) cricket tournament when heavy rain in Mirpur washed out the third and final day which saw the Sui Southern Gas Company (SSGC) through to the March 27-30 title-decider.

Requiring another 74 runs on Monday after having reached 39-1 on Sunday evening while chasing a modest 113, the KPT were left to rue their sheer bad luck. On the other hand, the SSGC celebrated their qualification on the basis of their 32-run lead on the first innings.

SSGC’s opponents in the final at the Iqbal Stadium in Faisalabad will be the Capital Development Authority (CDA) who qualified on a better run-rate after their semi-final against Sayid Paper Mills (SPM) was also badly disrupted by rain at the LCCA Ground in Lahore.

The CDA were due to resume their first innings at 96-4 in reply to SPM’s 271 but because of the washout, the former went through on run-rate of 4.00 against 3.91 obtained by SPM.

Sunday’s second day was restricted to just 11 overs in this game.

The winners of the competition will play first-class cricket in the President’s Trophy next season.

Scores and results on Monday (final day of three):

At Mirpur Cricket Stadium, Mirpur: Match drawn – no play on day three.

SSGC 151 in 52.4 overs (Asif Zakir 52, Saifullah Khan Bangash 25, Mohammad Irfan 24 not out, Awais Zia; Nadeem Javed 5-27, Kashif Mahmood 3-17) and 80 in 29 overs (Adeel Malik 7-34, Nadeem Javed 3-26); KPT 119 in 36.4 overs (Mohammad Hasan 34, Ahmed Iqbal 20; Nasir Malik 5-41, Rajesh Ramesh 4-46) and 39-1 in 5.1 overs.

At LCCA Ground, Lahore: Match drawn – no play on day three.

SAYID PAPER MILLS 271 in 69.1 overs (Babar Naeem 51, Adnan Mahmood 49, Tahir Mughal 39, Maqbool Ahmed 35, Rehan Afridi 30, Umar Siddique 26; Azam Khan 3-78, Yasir Ashfaq 2-50, Mohammad Irfan 2-59); CDA 96-4 in 27 overs (Fahim Raja 32 not out, Naved Malik 27; Aamir Yamin 3-46).