Sialkot Stallions 149 for 7 (Malik 51, Hussain 3-16) beat Quetta Bears 77 for 6 (Jalat Khan 17, Malik 4-13) by 72 runs.
Captain Shoaib Malik
scored a half-century and took four wickets to help Sialkot Stallions
to a 72-run triumph in the opening match of the day in Lahore. Chasing
150, Quetta lost wickets regularly, and were in trouble at 50 for 6,
before Jalat Khan provided some resistance by scoring 17. But the target
proved beyond them.
Sialkot, after being asked to bat first, began positively with their
openers putting on 21 for the first wicket. They wobbled when Haris
Sohail was run out for 11 but captain Malik, who scored 51, and Shahid
Yousuf laid the anchor for a strong total with a 57-run partnership. For
Quetta, Nazar Hussain, the left-arm seamer, took his career-best figures of 3 for 16.
