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.
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.
