KARACHI Sui Northern Gas Pipelines Limited (SNGPL) completed an easy seven-wicket win over Sialkot at the Niaz Stadium in Hyderabad on Friday to consolidate their position at the top of RBS Pentangular Cup standings. 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.
