LAHORE, April 24: Fine bowling by Najaf Shah and Janisar Khan put PIA in sight of victory against Sialkot after an eventful second day of the Pentangular Cup fixture at the Multan Cricket Stadium on Monday.

Both pace bowlers claimed four wickets apiece on a day when no less than 18 wickets fell.

Despire taking a first-innings lead of 69 runs, Sialkot crashed to 66 all out in the second innings to leave PIA chasing a modest target of 136.

PIA were 17-1 at close of play.

Earlier, paceman Asim Butt took five for 65 as PIA mustered 209 in the first innings in response to Sialkot’s 278.

Scoreboard

SIALKOT (1st Innings) 278 (Adeel Malik 64; Najaf Shah 5-34, Fazle Akbar 4-66).

PIA (1st Innings, overnight 69-3):

Agha Sabir b Mahmood 1

Ghulam Ali lbw Asim 32

Kamran Sajid c Khalid b Asim 16

Imran Abbas run out 67

Najaf Shah lbw b Asim 7

Faisal Iqbal c Khalid b Kashif 20

Mahmood Hamid c Khalid b Asim 0

Janisar Khan c Kashif b Asim 55

Kashif Mahmood not out 1

Ali Gohar b Kashif 1

Fazle Akbar c Faisal b Kashif 0

EXTRAS (B-2, LB-5, W-1, NB-1) 9

TOTAL (all out, 83.1 overs) 209

FALL OF WKTS: 1-5, 2-47, 3-69, 4-76, 5-111, 6-112, 7-189, 8-208, 9-209.

BOWLING: Asim Butt 30-8-65-5; Mahmood Malik 14-3-34-1; Kashif Dawood 20.1-4-68-3; Abdur Rahman 13-3-18-0; Adeel Malik 3-0-6-0; Hafiz Majid 3-0-11-0.

SIALKOT (2nd Innings):

Hafiz Majid lbw b Fazle 2

Inamul Haq c Kashif b Janisar 26

Atiqur Rahman b Fazle 5

Ayyub Dogar lbw b Najaf .0

Faisal Khan b Janisar 5

Adeel Malik c Ghulam Ali b Najaf 0

Abdur Rahman b Janisar 8

Kashif Dawood not out 7

Hafiz Khalid c Ghlam Ali b Janisar 6

Asim Butt c Ali Gohar b Najaf 1

Mahmood Malik b Najaf 0

EXTRAS (B-5, LB-1) 6

TOTAL (all out, 23.2 overs) 66

FALL OF WKTS: 1-6, 2-16, 3-17, 4-39, 5-40, 6-44, 7-55, 8-65, 9-66.

BOWLING: Fazle Akbar 8-2-23-2; Najaf Shah 11.2-3-26-4; Janisar Khan 4-1-11-4.

PIA (2nd Innings):

Agha Sabir c Atiq b Asim 15

Ghulam Ali not out 0

EXTRAS (LB-1, NB-1) 2

TOTAL (for one wkt, 2.5 overs) 17

FALL OF WKT: 1-17.

BOWLING (to-date): Asim Butt 1.3-0-9-1; Kashif Dawood 1-0-7-0 (1nb).