After bowling out Sialkot for 268 in the second innings, SNGPL lost only three wickets in chasing a target of 78 runs.—File photo by APP

After bowling out Sialkot for 268 in the second innings, SNGPL lost three wickets in chasing a modest target of 78 runs on the third day of the match.

Earlier, Sialkot added 71 to their overnight total of 197-7 of which 44 came during the last-wicket partnership between Faisal Rasheed and Bilawal Bhatti.

Bilawal, the top-scorer in the first innings with 33, bludgeoned four sixes and a four in an undefeated 34 off 21 balls.

Left-arm seamer Samiullah Niazi took 3-64 to finish with a mach bag of 8-89.

SNGPL have 18 points from three matches.

Scoreboard

SIALKOT (1st Innings) 78 (Bilawal Bhatti 33; Samiullah Niazi 5-25, Adil Raza 3-18).

SNGPL (1st Innings) 269 (Usman Arshad 96, Yasir Shah 48, Mohammad Hafeez 42; Nayyar Abbas 4-67).

SIALKOT (2nd Innings, overnight 197-7)

Hafiz Majid Jahangir c Kaleem b Sami 47
Faisal Rasheed c Raza Dar b Hafeez 16

EXTRAS (B-4, NB-9) 13

TOTAL (all out, 79.4 overs) 268

FALL OF WKTS 1-31, 2-93, 3-101, 4-164, 5-169, 6-175, 7-190, 8-206, 9-226.

BOWLING Samiullah Niazi 23-2-64-3 (4nb); Adil Raza 13-3-49-1; Imran Ali 8-1-25-1 (4nb); Yasir Shah 30-9-106-4; Mohammad Hafeez 5.4-2-20-1.

SNGPL (2nd Innings)

EXTRAS (B-4, W-1, NB-3) 8
TOTAL (for three wkts, 13.3 overs) 79
FALL OF WKTS 1-21, 2-21, 3-42.

BOWLING Nayyar Abbas 3-0-14-0; Adeel Malik 4-0-37-1 (1w); Hafiz Majid Jahangir 5-0-15-2 (3nb); M. Ayub Dogar 1.3-0-9-0.

RESULT SNGPL won by seven wickets.