RAWALPINDI, Jan 18: Sialkot prevailed over Rawalpindi on a drastically shortened first-day of the Quaid-i-Azam Trophy Gold League fixture at the Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium on Thursday.

Poor light and light drizzle resulted in the game starting after the scheduled tea interval. Put into bat, Rawalpindi were reeling at 47 for four when deteriorating weather conditions ended play for the day nine overs short of the rescheduled quota of 30 overs.

Pace bowlers Kashif Raza and Asif Butt took two wickets each for the champions.

Scoreboard

RAWALPINDI (1st Innings):

Sohail Nasir b Asim 15

Babar Naeem c Shahid b Kashif 0

Tahir Rauf c Atiq b Kashif 12

Naveed Qureshi c Khalid b Asim 6

Mohammad Wasim not out 10

Usman Saeed not out 3

EXTRAS (LB-1) 1

TOTAL (for four wkts, 21 overs) 47

FALL OF WKTS: 1-0, 2-28, 3-34, 4-37.

TO BAT: Yasir Arafat, Sohail Tanvir, Sajid Mahmood, Najaf Shah, Akhtar Ayub.

BOWLING (to-date): Sarfraz Ahmed 4-2-9-0; Kashif Raza 10-5-12-2; Asim Butt 7-0-25-2.

SIALKOT: Imran Nazir, Atiq-ur-Rehman, Shahid Yousuf, Ijaz Ahmed, Shahzad Malik, Mansoor Amjad, Hafiz Khalid, Abdur Rehman, Sarfraz Ahmed, Kashif Raza, Asim Butt.

UMPIRES: Salim Badar and Islam Khan.

MATCH REFEREE: Khateeb Rizwan.

OFFICIAL SCORER: Shakeel Ahmed.—Agencies