RAWALPINDI, Jan 19: A maiden century by upcoming all-rounder Sohail Tanvir engineered a magnificent comeback by Rawalpindi in their Quaid-i-Azam Trophy Gold League fixture against Sialkot at the Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium on Friday.

The left-handed Sohail hammered 124 and Usman Saeed 88 to steer Rawalpindi to a healthy first-innings total of 324. The seventh-wicket pair came together to put on 150 after the hosts had slipped to 105-6 having resumed at the overnight score of 47-4.

Sohail belted 11 fours and two sixes in his 173-ball knock while Usman dispatched a dozen balls to the fence, facing 180 deliveries altogether.

Kashif Raza captured 5-62 and fellow paceman Asim Butt took 3-132. Left-arm paceman Sarfraz Ahmed got 2-52.

Sialkot finished the day on 27-2 in reply.

Scoreboard

RAWALPINDI (1st Innings, overnight 47-4):

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 b Kashif 33

Usman Saeed c Khalid b Sarfraz 88

Yasir Arafat c Khalid b Sarfraz 14

Sohail Tanvir c Khalid b Kashif 124

Sajid Mahmood lbw b Asim 14

Najaf Shah c and Kashif 4

Akhtar Ayub not out 1

EXTRAS (B-9, LB-3, NB-1) 13

TOTAL (all out, 95.1 overs) 324

FALL OF WKTS: 1-0, 2-28, 3-34, 4-37, 5-79, 6-105, 7-255, 8-292, 9-305.

BOWLING: Sarfraz Ahmed 23-6-52-2; Kashif Raza 28.1-9-62-5; Asim Butt 26-1-132-3; Abdur Rehman 10-1-31-0; Mansoor Amjad 7-0-34-0 (1nb); Shahid Yousuf 1-0-1-0.

SIALKOT (1st Innings):

Atiq-ur-Rehman b Yasir 0

Shahid Yousuf not out 19

Mansoor Amjad c Wasim b Yasir 0

Ijaz Ahmed not out 5

EXTRAS (NB-3) 3

TOTAL (for two wkts, 6.1 overs) 27

FALL OF WKTS: 1-2, 2-2.

TO BAT: Shahzad Malik, Hafiz Khalid, Imran Nazir, Abdur Rehman, Sarfraz Ahmed, Kashif Raza, Asim Butt.

BOWLING (to-date): Yasir Arafat 3.1-0-17-2 (3nb); Najaf Shah 3-1-10-0.—Agencies