KARACHI: Karachi and Sialkot were the only sides to win in the third and final round of the PCB-Pepsi Cricket Stars U-16 tournament on Thursday with both crushing their respective opponents by innings.

Karachi, as expected, outclassed Larkana by innings and 96 runs in their Pool ‘C’ fixture here at the National Stadium. The visitors, who were in dire straits at 42-5 in reply to Karachi’s 372-8 on Wednesday’s opening day of the two-day match, ended their first innings at a measly 91 all out.

Paceman Sohail Khan was the wrecker-in-chief with figures of 6-44 in 14 overs.

Following on, Larkana managed to put up some fight before being dismissed for 185 thanks to the efforts of Javed Ali (66 off 173 balls, four boundaries) and Uzair Ata (52 off 33, nine fours and one six).

Sohail once again led the Karachi attack to claim 4-61 in 14 overs, giving him match analysis of 10-105. Off-spinner Mohammad Zahid provided good support by snaring 4-56 in 19.3 overs.

Sialkot, meanwhile, were too strong for Quetta as they up chalked victory quite comfortably by an innings and 59 runs in the Pool ‘A’ encounter at the Ittefaq Cricket Ground in the Model Town area of Lahore.

Quetta began their overnight first innings at 50-3 but were sent packing for 142 with off-spinner Ansar Irshad claiming four for 20, paceman Usman Sajjad 3-33 and slow let-armer Mohammad Awais 3-34.

Sialkot, who made collected 308 in their first innings on Wednesday, promptly enforced the follow on and duly rewarded when Quetta subsided to 107 all out in less than 42 overs.

Ansar once again proved unplayable as he took 5-16 (match bag of 9-36 in 23.5 overs) while paceman Zakirullah captured 4-40.

Scores and results on Thursday (final day of two):

Third round:

Pool ‘A’:

At LCCA Ground, Lahore: Match drawn.

LAHORE 146 in 50.2 overs (Ahmed Zulfiqar 27, Shafay Malik 21; Shahenshah Afridi 5-32, Mohammad Mansoor 3-61, Ali 2-25) and 236-5 in 59 overs (Attyab Ahmed 103 not out, Hashim Ibrahim 61; Shahenshah Afridi 3-65); FATA 223 in 56.2 overs (Mohammad Ajmal 62, Hamza Khan 39; Ahmer Jalil 5-57, Attyab Ahmed 3-39).

At Ittefaq Cricket Ground, Lahore: Sialkot beat Quetta by an innings and 59 runs.

SIALKOT 308 in 68.5 overs (Mohsin Riaz 83, Mohsin Ilyas 76, Zeeshan Ahmed 58, Aqeel Abbas 58; Junaid Khan 3-42, Abdul Wahid 2-50, Basit Aslam 2-55); QUETTA 142 in 50.1 overs (Ehtesham Khan 31; Ansar Irshad 4-20, Usman Sajjad 3-33, Mohammad Awais 3-34) and 107 in 41.4 overs (Abdul Wahid 20; Ansar Irshad 5-16, Zakirullah 4-40).

Pool ‘B’:

At Pindi Cricket Stadium, Rawalpindi: Match drawn.

RAWALPINDI 198 in 61 overs (Mohammad Jageer 71, Hasnain Ahmed 59, Hussain Amjad 44 not out; Ahmed Khan 6-87, Jahangir Khan 2-57); PESHAWAR 229 in 66.5 overs (Mukhtar Ahmed 96 not out, Aamir Zaib 37, Jahangir Khan 36; Adil Khan 4-58, Abrar Zaman 3-66).

At Diamond Ground Islamabad: Match drawn.

ABBOTTABAD 195 in 65.2 overs (Faizan 41, Aaqib Khan 31, Adnan Khan 26; Bakht Rawan 4-70, Umair Haroon 3-49); ISLAMABAD 157-5 in 42 overs (Mohammad Hammad 55, Jawwad Ahmed 39 not out; Mohammad Asfand Yar 3-33, Sanaullah 2-55).

Pool ‘C’:

At National Stadium, Karachi: Karachi beat Larkana by an innings and 96 runs.

KARACHI 372-8 in 70 overs (Haider Ali 128, Tariq Bakht 78, Obaisullah Khan 55, Jahanzeb Sultan 47, Syed Mohammad Amin 27; Aamir Ali 4-122, Imran Khan 3-85); LARKANA 91 in 52.4 overs (Ihsan Ali 27, Uzair Ata 23; Sohail Khan 6-44, Mohammad Zahid 2-11, Mohammad Usman 2-16) and 185 in 74.3 overs (Javed Ali 66, Uzair Ata 52, Imran Khan 23; Mohammad Zahid 4-56, Sohail Khan 4-61).

At Niaz Stadium, Hyderabad: Match drawn.

HYDERABAD 156 in 54.5 overs (Abdul Rafay 41, Gul Badin 21; Fahad Hussain 6-50, Talib Husain 3-30) and 139 in 34 overs (Saad Khan 102, Fahad Husain 7-48); DERA MURAD JAMALI 147 in 54.3 overs (Fida Hussain 39, Mohammad Shahid 27; Arish Jaffri 4-28, Mohammad Hasnain 4-44) and 71-4 in 29 overs (Mohammad Shahid 22).

Pool ‘D’:

At KRL Stadium, Rawalpindi: Match drawn.

BAHAWALPUR 88 in 53 overs (Umar Raza 34; Mohammad Huzaifa 4-17, Uzair Abdullah 3-21, Zaheer Islam Saqib 2-21); MULTAN 138-7 in 63 overs (Uzair Abdullah 54 not out, Shoaib Khan 31; Mohammad Junaid 3-30, Murad Rauf 3-40).

At Bhutto Cricket Ground, Islamabad: Match drawn.

FAISALABAD 183-5 in 37.5 overs declared (Mohammad Owais 52, Shaur Ahmed 40, Abdullah Zubair 34); AZAD JAMMU KASHMIR 95 in 42.5 overs (Atif Azad 30, Zain Ahmed 20; Saqlain Ashraf 7-35) and 36-1 in 20 overs.

Published in Dawn, May 15th, 2015

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