Salam Takaful Pakistan Limited came in to bat first & were off to a shaky start. Despite loosing a couple of wickets early on they were scoring at a high rate. Hammad Mughal & Dawood Khan put up a partnership of 50+ runs giving their team a fiery start. The duo made full use of the powerplay hitting out every bowler that was brought into the attack. Dawood Khan departed after playing a fiery innings of 45 runs off 29 deliveries. Hammad Mughal played with the same intent. He took continued to score boundaries at ease hitting the ball towards all parts of the ground. He played a sublime knock of 97 runs off just 54 deliveries. The rest of the batting lineup couldn’t do much as the bowlers kept on picking up wickets at regular intervals not allowing the batsmen to settle in. Hamza Ali, Mansoor Abbasi, Muhammad Shan, Syed Sharjeel Ahmed & Areeb Salman picked up a wicket each. Salam Takaful Pakistan Limited posted a total of 185 runs for the loss of 5 wickets.
UBL Insurers came in to chase this target & were off to a flying start. Despite loosing a wicket early on they were scoring at a high rate. Areeb Salman & Syed Sharjeel Ahmed put up a partnership of 100+ runs giving their team the perfect start. The duo took the attack towards the bowlers hitting out every bowler that was brought into the attack. The bowlers struggled with their line & lengths which was capitalized by the batsmen. There was some clean power hitting on display from both the ends. Areeb Salman departed after playing a sublime knock of 74 runs off just 57 deliveries. Once he was dismissed the bowlers made their comeback. The bowlers then managed to pickup wickets at regular intervals not allowing the batsmen to settle in. The rest of the batting lineup collapsed as the bowlers found their strides late into the match. Syed Sharjeel Ahmed played a sublime knock of 54 runs off 40 deliveries but it was too big of a task for him to achieve alone. Subhan Ali lead the bowling attack picking up 3 wickets.
Salam Takaful Pakistan Limited Won By 17 Runs