LAHORE, Nov 30: Sialkot and Rawalpindi drew their Quaid-i-Azam Trophy Gold League match at Jinnah Stadium in Sialkot on Wednesday. Rawalpindi made no attempt to chase a daunting target of 360 as they batted circumspectly to finish at 194 for four in the second innings.
Medium-pacer Tahir Mughal ended up with three for 63 to return an impressive match bag of 10 for 122.
Scoreboard
SIALKOT (1st Innings) 245.
RAWALPINDI (1st Innings) 115 (Tahir Mughal 7-59).
SIALKOT (2nd Innings, overnight 134-5):
Imran Nazir c Asim b Yasir 2
Faisal Naved b Rizwan 21
Bilal Hussain lbw b Yasir 8
Atiqur Rahman run out 6
Shahid Yousuf b Rizwan 12
Mansoor Amjad c Sajid b Rizwan 74
Hafiz Khalid run out 50
Shahzad Malik lbw b Rizwan 17
Tahir Mughal c Wasim b Rizwan 0
Abdur Rahman run out 6
Sarfraz Ahmed not out 0
EXTRAS (B-13, LB-7, NB-13) 33
TOTAL (all out, 71.2 overs) 229
FALL OF WKTS: 1-2, 2-12, 3-32, 4-55, 5-60, 6-157, 7-216, 8-218, 9-225.
BOWLING: Yasir Arafat 18-2-49-2; Najaf Shah 21-2-56-0; Sohail Tanvir 9-1-31-0; Rizwan Akbar 16.2-3-57-5; Babar Naeem 7-1-16-0.
RAWALPINDI (2nd Innings):
Mohammad Wasim b Tahir 26
Babar Naeem c Khalid b Tahir 12
Pervez Aziz c Khalid b Tahir 52
Usman Saeed retired hurt 7
Naveed Qureshi not out 65
Asim Butt lbw b Sarfraz 3
Yasir Arafat not out 27
EXTRAS (LB-2) 2
TOTAL (for four wkts, 48 overs) 194
FALL OF WKTS: 1-34, 2-41, 3-110, 4-120.
BOWLING: Sarfraz Ahmed 18-0-61-1; Tahir Mughal 14-1-63-3; Abdur Rahman 12-2-48-0; Imran Nazir 3-0-12-0; Shahzad Malik 1-0-8-0.
RESULT: Match drawn.
UMPIRES: Shakeel Khan and Iftikhar Malik.
MATCH REFEREE: Saadat Ali.