LAHORE, Sept 18: Pacers Faraz-ul-Haq and Samiullah  Niazi shared all 10 wickets between them as Sargodha thrashed Okara by 223 runs in the National Junior (Under-19) Grade-II Cricket Championship at Sports Stadium, Sargodha, Wednesday.

According to details available here, Okara were bundled out for just 66 in their second innings. Faraz claimed five for 20 and Niazi the other five for 27.

The match between Gujrat and Sialkot ended in a draw at Zahoor Elahi Stadium, Gujrat.

The home side earned a 41-run lead on the first innings despite a knock of exactly 100 by Sialkot’s Khurram Hussain.

Meanwhile, an outstanding all-round performance by skipper Syed Rehan led Mirpurkhas to a convincing 176-run victory over Sukkur at Nawabshah Stadium in Nawabshah.

Rehan followed his knocks of 57 and 137 by snapping up a match bag of nine for 92 with his leg-spinners.

Summarised scores:

*At Sports Stadium, Sargodha:

Sargodha beat Okara by 223 runs.

SARGODHA 187 in 64.4 overs (Mohammad Naeem 45; Mohammad Shoaib Iqbal 7-39) and 239 (Usman Arshad 55, Farrukh Shahzad 45, Mohammad Naeem 42; Jawwad Hafeez 3-48, Mohammad Shoaib Iqbal 3-61);

OKARA 137 in 50.4 overs (Samiullah Niazi 4-42, Faraz-ul-Haq 3-44) and 66 (Faraz-ul-Haq 5-20, Samiullah Niazi 5-27).

*At Saga ground, Sialkot:

Mianwali beat Attock by nine wickets.

ATTOCK 196 in 71.2 overs (Nadeem Sikander 98; Mohammad Bilal 3-8) and 137 (Nadeem Sikander 68; Tanvir Kashif 4-55, Aqeel Raza 3-24);

MIANWALI 296-6 in 80 overs (Zaheer Ahmed 88, Mohammad Bilal 76; Mohammad Noman 4-46) and 38-1.

*At Nawabshah Stadium, Nawabshah:

Mirpurkhas beat Sukkur by 176 runs.

MIRPURKHAS 207 in 62.3 overs (Syed Rehan 57, Aqeel Ahmed 50; Kashif Ali 3-32) and 328-8 declared (Syed Rehan 137, Riaz Khan 53 not out, Adnan Farooq 51; Almas Hussain 4-75);

SUKKUR 174 in 58.5 overs (Yasir Ali 45; Syed Rehan 5-48, Nabi Mohammad 3-69) and 185 (Mirza Jamshed Baig 57, Ijaz Ahmed 56, Ghulam Mustafa 40; Syed Rehan 4-44, Mohammad Kamran 3-13).

*At D.I. Khan Stadium, D.I. Khan:

Azad Jammu Kashmir beat Dera Ismail Khan by an innings and 71 runs.

DERA ISMAIL KHAN 174 in 68 overs (Mohammad Irfan Khan 56; Mujtaba Gardazi 5-36) and 134 (Abdul Shakoor 4-18, Mir Usman 4-50);

AZAD JAMMU KASHMIR 379-8 in 80 overs (Sohrab Aslam 89, Afaq Raheem 70, Abdul Shakoor 54, Mir Usman 49; Mohammad Waheed 4-105).

*At Police Ground, Larkana:

Larkana beat Shikarpur by 26 runs.

LARKANA 195 in 68 overs (Zafar Ali 56; Zahid Hussain 3-48) and 147 (Shahzeb 41; Sharafat Ali 3-30, Ghulam Yasin 3-47);

SHIKARPUR 112 in 36 overs (Asif Babar 62; Kashif Ali 6-44, Wasim Hussain 4-12) and 204 (Ghulam Yasin 66, Ghulam Fareed 56; Wasim Hussain 7-44).

*At Iftikhar Stadium, Quetta:

Sibi beat Pishin by six wickets.

PISHIN 184 in 57.3 overs (Abdul Salam 48, Sanaullah Sr 40 not out; Jalat Khan 7-59) and 324 (Aminullah 103, Ataullah 40; Hafiz Nasir 4-97, Jalat Khan 3-112);

SIBI 266 in 62.3 overs (Mohammad Bakhsh 92; Abdul Salam 4-25) and 245-4 (Adeel Farman 85, Jalat Khan 47 not out, Mohammad Bakhsh 40).

*At Zahoor Elahi Stadium, Gujrat:

Match drawn.

GUJRAT 286 in 78.5 overs (Usman Ashraf 87, Mirza Zaheer  Baig 73; Shahid Yousuf 4-62, Zohaib Akhtar 3-66) and 112-9 (Adeel Malik 4-37);

SIALKOT 245 in 75.4 overs (Khurram Hussain 100, Adeel Malik 51; Faraz Ahmed 3-50, Mirza Zaheer Baig 3-54).

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