KARACHI: Quetta were the only region to emerge victorious in the fourth-round fixtures of the Quaid-i-Azam Trophy Grade-II cricket tournament on Saturday.

They defeated Azad Jammu Kashmir by 10 wickets in the Pool ‘A’ match at the Dring Stadium in Bahawalpur.

Sialkot, meanwhile, had to settle for only three points after Dera Murad Jamali (DMJ) put up strong resistance in their Pool ‘B’ clash here at the TMC Ground by posting 292 after resuming day three at 124-0 in the second innings.

Multan also had to contend with three points as Abbottabad drew at the Multan Cricket Stadium, while Larkana allowed Hyderabad the same number of points in the drawn game at the National Stadium.

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

Fourth round:

Pool ‘A’:

At Multan Cricket Stadium, Multan: Match drawn.

ABBOTTABAD 272-9 in 83 overs (Khalilullah 117 not out, Nasir Khan 59, Sajjad Ali 28, Mohsin Rasheed 22; Saeed Anwar Jr 3-56, Zulfiqar Babar 3-98) and 274-9 declared in 68.5 overs (Farhan Hussain 58, Khalilullah 46, Nasir Khan 39, Kamran Ghulam 37, Khalid Usman 32; Zulfiqar Babar 5-56, Kashif Naved 2-15); MULTAN 278-5 in 83 overs (Maqbool Ahmed 60 not out, Saeed Anwar Jr 55 not out, Waqar Hussain 54, Kashif Naveed 42; Faizan Elahi 2-32) and 95-3 in 19 overs (Waqar Hussain 39, Zia-ul-Haq 30; Kamran Ghulam 2-51).

At Dring Stadium, Bahawalpur: Quetta beat Azad Jammu Kashmir by 10 wickets.

AZAD JAMMU KASHMIR 107 in 36.5 overs (Babar Khaliq 27 not out, Naveed Malik 25; M. Shahzad Tareen 5-34, Shams-ul-Haq 3-9) and 228 in 76.5 overs(Sardar Hasan Raza 75, Usman Maroof 49, Babar Khaliq 41, Ikram Hussain 31; Shamsullah 5-56, Gohar Fayyaz 2-56); QUETTA 305 in 80.5 overs (Bismillah Khan 103, Shahbaz Khan 70, Rameez Raja 44 not out; Abdul Shakoor 5-103, Azhar Mahmood 2-52, Salman Irshad 2-88) and 31-0 in 6.2 overs (Bismillah Khan 20 not out).

Pool ‘B’:

At National Stadium, Karachi: Match drawn.

LARKANA 278-8 in 83 overs (Mohammad Urs 58 not out Mohsin Raza 52, Hamesh Kumar 37, Zafar Ali 36, Faraz Aziz 22; Babar Khan 3-37, Nauman Akbar 2-52, Nauman Ali 2-79) and 203 in 83.4 overs (Afaq 62, Faraz Aziz 37, Mohammad Urs 26; Babar Khan 4-47, Nauman Ali 3-31, Nauman Akbar 2-32); HYDERABAD 377-9 in 83 overs(Azeem Ghumman 123, Mohammad Suleman 59, Saad Khan 54, Shoaib Leghari 45, Lal Kumar 37 not out, Rizwan Ahmed 25; Ali Asghar 4-96) and 96-7 in 14 overs (Mohammad Suleman 22; Shahnawaz 3-38, Aamir Ali Pahnwar 3-52).

At TMC Ground, Karachi: Match drawn.

DERA MURAD JAMALI 146 in 49 overs (Shahbaz Ali 45, Najeebullah 31; Mansoor Amjad 3-39, Usama Mir 2-23, Ammad Butt 2-34, Abdul Rehman 2-39) and 292 in 133.2 overs (Nasir Khan 102, Abid Ali Mengal 61, Asif Ali 38, Sanaullah 29, Najeebullah 26; Abdur Rehman 4-56, Usama Mir 4-64); SIALKOT 227 in 61.5 overs (Nauman Anwar 57, Ali Raza 42, Jamil Aslam 38, Naeemuddin 32, Hamza Nazar 24; Rasool Bakhsh 4-91, Nasir Khan 3-23) and 172-5 in 21 overs (Ali Raza 50 not out, Abdur Rehman 38 not out, Naeemuddin 31, Amad Butt 23; Nasir Khan 2-42, Zahoor Ahmed 2-49).

Published in Dawn, April 15th, 2018