SNGPL, UBL set up final showdown

Finalists overpower respective opponents inside three days

KARACHI: SNGPL and UBL both qualified for the final of the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy after defeating their respective opponents in their last pool match of the Super Eight stage. The two winners will now face each other in the final, which will be played with the pink kookaburra ball at the National Stadium of Karachi from January 3 to 7.

SNGPL defeated Lahore Blues by an innings and 325 runs as Manzoor Khan took four wickets and Imran Ali bagged three.

At the Niaz Stadium in Hyderabad, UBL defeated SSGC by six wickets. SSGC resumed their second innings on 198-5 and were able to add 34 runs to their 232-run total as Mir Hamza and Sadaf Mehdi took three wickets each.



UBL reached the 130-run target with great ease as Umair Khan scored 42 with Naveed Sarwar contributing 30.

In another match, Wapda defeated KRL by an innings and 300 runs. KRL resumed their first innings 21-0 but were dismissed for a mere 116 as Rizwan Haider, Khalid Usman, Muhammad Irfan and Azhar Attari all took two wickets each.



Trailing by 384, KRL were made to follow-on but they fared even worse the second time around, with their entire team crumbling for 84 runs. Usman took four wickets.

Meanwhile in the match between NBP and Karachi Whites at the Southend Club, the former had been set a target of 162 and at the end of play, they had already piled up 45 runs for no loss and required another 117 runs on the final day to win.

Published in The Express Tribune, December 31^st, 2015.

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