LAHORE, Nov 27: Despite good knocks by Shahid Yousuf and Atiqur Rahman, Sialkot struggled to 146-5 against Rawalpindi on the first day of the Quaid-i-Azam Trophy Gold League match at Jinnah Stadium in Sialkot on Sunday.

Put into bat, Sialkot lost three quick wickets before Shahid (46, five fours) and Atiq (37, three fours) steadied the innings with a 79-run partnership.

Scoreboard

SIALKOT (1st Innings):

Imran Nazir lbw b Yasir 19

Faisal Naved c Wasim b Najaf 0

Atiqur Rahman run out 37

Bilal Hussain lbw b Yasir 1

Shahid Yousuf c Sajid b Rizwan 46

Shahzad Malik not out 14

Mansoor Amjad not out 12

EXTRAS (B-5, LB-8, NB-4) 17

TOTAL (for five wkts, 47.1 overs) 146

FALL OF WKTS: 1-4, 2-18, 3-32, 4-111, 5-113.

TO BAT: Hafiz Khalid, Tahir Mughal, Abdul Rahman, Sarfraz Ahmed.

BOWLING (to-date): Yasir Arafat 13.1-1-49-2; Najaf Shah 12-3-23-1 (1nb); Sohail Tanvir 10-3-27-0 (3nb); Rizwan Akbar 12-3-34-1.

RAWALPINDI: Babar Naeem, Mohammad Wasim, Asim Iqbal Butt, Usman Saeed, Naveed Qureshi, Pervez Aziz, Yasir Arafat, Sajid Mahmood, Sohail Tanvir, Rizwan Akbar, Najaf Shah.