LAHORE, Feb 9: Medium-pacer Tahir Mughal captured six for 74 to put defending champions Sialkot in sight of victory against Karachi Urban in the Quaid-i-Azam Trophy Gold League match at the Jinnah Stadium on Friday.

Karachi Urban, who conceded a lead of 166 on the first innings, were all out for 230 after resuming their second innings at 76 for three. Only Asif Zakir managed to carry the fight to Sialkot with a fine 62 which included 10 boundaries.

Needing only 64, Sialkot reached 27 for one at close of play on day three of the four-day tie.

Scoreboard

KARACHI URBAN (1st Innings) 164 (Kashif Dawood 5-54).

SIALKOT (1st Innings) 330 (Ayub Dogar 121, Hafiz Khalid 77; Rajesh Ramesh 6-145, Asif Zakir 4-40).

KARACHI URBAN (2nd Innings, overnight 76-3):

Agha Sabir c Atiq b Tahir 9

Khurram Manzoor c Atiq b Tahir 35

Mohtashim Ali lbw b Sarfraz 12

Asif Zakir b Tahir 62

M. Hasnain c Ayub b Kashif Dawood 26

Saeed bin Nasir c Atiq b Kashif Raza 13

Hasan Raza c Atiq b Tahir 8

Amin-ur-Rehman c Majid b Tahir 38

Tahir Khan not out 3

Rajesh Ramesh c Atiq b Tahir 0

Malik Aftab c Qaiser b Sarfraz 15

EXTRAS (B-3, LB-3, W-1, NB-2) 9

TOTAL (all out, 64.5 overs) 230

FALL OF WKTS: 1-26, 2-59, 3-69, 4-127, 5-165, 6-165, 7-174, 8-213, 9-213.

BOWLING: Kashif Raza 18-3-70-1; Tahir Mughal 18-2-74-6 (1w); Sarfraz Ahmed 18.5.-8-35-2 (2nb); Kashif Dawood 10-2-45-1.

SIALKOT (2nd Innings):

Hafiz Majid Jahangir c Tahir b Aftab 4

Shahid Yousuf retired hurt 9

Qaiser Abbas not out 2

Atiq-ur-Rehman not out 0

EXTRAS (B-9, LB-1, W-2) 12

TOTAL (for one wkt, 5 overs) 27

FALL OF WKT: 1-17.

BOWLING (to-date): Malik Aftab 3-1-7-1 (1w); Rajesh Ramesh 1.5-0-9-0 (1w); Mohammad Hasnain 0.1-0-1-0.