BAL vs SP assets, National T20 2022

That's it from today's 5^th match of the Pakistan T20 2022 match between Balochistan and Southern Punjab here at Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium, Rawalpindi, Pakistan. This is Saipavan Janaki taking your leave along with my co-commentator Saiprasad and our Scorer/Analyst Ashok. Stay tuned for more coverage going on in our network, take care and enjoy!!!

Saipavan: Southern Punjab have won this encounter by beats Balochistan by 21 runs.  With this win, they register their first win of the competition and replace Central Punjab at the fourth spot in the points table.

Chasing 157, the Balochistan started inning with Haseebullah and Asad Shafiq. They had a great start with openers and built up a partnership of 57 runs in the 8.2 overs for the first wicket before Haseebullah departed at 21 runs off 22 balls. Balochistan scored 50 runs without loss of any wicket in the powerplay. Asad Shafiq looked great in middle and scored 43 runs off 35 balls with the help of 5 fours and a six and was dismissed. Bangalzai and Masood never looked good in the middle and departed at 8 and 7 respectively.

Sohail and Talat resumed the inning. They both put 29 runs between them before Sohail departed at 9. Afterward, Amad Butt also contributed his 7 runs in the middle and was dismissed. Hussain Talat played well and scored 30 off 25 balls with the help of 3 fours and departed as the 8^th wicket then no one will look comfortable in middle and they finished at 135 loss of 8 wickets in 20 overs.

Agha Salman was the pick of the bowler, gave away 15 runs in his 4 overs, and scalped 3 wickets. Sameen Gul picked 2 wickets while Akram and Randhawa took 1-1 wickets each for Southern Punjab.

Earlier in the day, Southern Punjab won the toss and opt to bat first. They started their innings with Zain Abbas and Sohaib Maqsood but Maqsood walks back to the pavilion as a retired out after the first over. Zeeshan Ashraf joined Abbas. They got a solid start and built up a partnership of 37 runs for 1^st wicket. Abbas looked good in the middle but went off at 19. Ashraf was also dismissed at 12 runs.

Siraj and Moinuddin resumed the inning and they both put up 11 runs before Moinuddin departed at 7. Maqsood came to bat again and hit one boundary and was dismissed at 12. Southern Punjab lost 6 wickets at 80. Afterward, Sharoon Siraj and Mohammad Ilyas both looked good in the middle and built up a partnership of 76 runs for 7^th wickets. Siraj looked great in the middle and completed half-century and stayed unbeaten at 57 runs with the help of 6 fours and 2 sixes. Mohammad Ilyas also stayed unbeaten at 41 runs off 17 balls. Southern Punjab ended their inning at 156.

Yasir Shah was the pick of the bowler, gave away 17 runs in his 4 overs, and scalped 3 wickets while Akif Javed pocketed 2 wickets and Amad Butt took one wicket for Balochistan.

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