MIT Solutions defeated Pakistan Television (PTV) by six wickets on the third day of the seventh and final-round President’s Trophy match at the Diamond Cricket Ground on Wednesday.

This was MIT Solutions’ second victory and helped them finish the league stage with 96 points. State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) and Ghani Glass are their closest rivals on 95 and 82 points, respectively.

Kingsmen Academy were 139 runs ahead with eight second-innings wickets in hand against SBP, while Ghani Glass needed another 96 runs with seven wickets remaining to avoid an innings defeat against Oil and Gas Development Company Limited (OGDCL), who are fighting to stay in first-class cricket by finishing in the top seven.

Bottom-placed Sui Northern Gas Pipelines Limited (SNGPL), who need to beat Khan Research Laboratories (KRL) to keep alive their hopes of avoiding relegation, required another 104 runs with six wickets remaining. Mohammad Rizwan (22) and Abdul Samad (11) will resume SNGPL’s innings on Thursday morning.

PTV, who resumed at 177 for two after being forced to follow on, still trailing by 171 runs, were dismissed for 394, with Waqar Hussain scoring 171 and Taimur Khan 151. The two batters added 316 runs for the third wicket, but after the partnership ended at 335, the remaining wickets fell like a house of cards.

Waqar, who resumed on 102, was out for 171 from 245 balls with 24 fours and two sixes, while Taimur, who was 63 overnight, scored 151 from 244 balls with 17 fours and three sixes.

For MIT Solutions, Khalid Usman was the pick of the bowlers with four for 90, while Salman Aslam followed up his six for 18 with three for 89. Mohammad Ismail took three for 105.

MIT Solutions then reached the 47-run target for the loss of four wickets when Arslan Zia hit the winning boundary.

At the LCCA Ground, Imam-ul-Haq resumed on 118 in OGDCL’s 277 for three in reply to Ghani Glass’s 232, and finished unbeaten on 200 as OGDCL declared their first innings at 410 for nine. When play ended, Ghani Glass, trailing by 178 runs on the first innings, were 82 for three.

Imam, playing his first match of the 2026-27 season, faced 311 balls and struck 19 fours and two sixes. After Saad Khan’s 88 on Tuesday, only Mohammad Hammad Khan (21) offered Imam support.

For Ghani Glass, young fast bowler Ubaid Shah returned impressive figures of 35-6-131-5, while Test fast bowler Khurram Shahzad took three for 101.

At the Shoaib Akhtar Cricket Stadium, the KRL-SNGPL match was delicately poised, with SNGPL needing another 104 runs for victory with six wickets remaining.

After SNGPL claimed a 44-run first-innings lead, KRL resumed their second innings at 111 for two and were dismissed for 234. No. 8 batter Daniyal Ali Khan was KRL’s notable scorer on Wednesday with an 83-ball 59 with eight fours and a six, while Mohammad Faiq added just two runs to his overnight 64.

Shehzad Gul was the destroyer-in-chief of KRL’s second innings, returning figures of 20-3-61-5, while Shahnawaz Dahani took three for 66. Mohammad Ali took two for 65.

SNGPL, set a 191-run target, were 87 for four when stumps were drawn, with Rizwan and Samad batting on 22 and 11, respectively.

At the National Ground, SBP claimed a slender 27-run first-innings lead when they were dismissed for 398 after starting the day at 209 for four. Kingsmen Academy, who had posted 371 in their first innings, finished the day at 166 for two, with Mohammad Tayyab Arif batting on 91 and Mohammad Huraira dismissed for 57.

SBP’s Ali Shan, who started the day on 23, finished unbeaten on 100 from 216 balls with 13 fours and a six, while No. 9 batter Shahid Aziz scored 48 from 38 balls with two fours and five sixes.

For Kingsmen Academy, left-arm spinner Umer Khan recorded figures of 32-5-111-5, while Mohammad Ilyas took three for 95.

Scores in brief (seventh round, day three of four):

Kingsmen Academy v SBP, National Ground

Kingsmen Academy 371 all out, 97 overs (Mohammad Shayan 86, Saud Shakeel 79, Maaz Sadaqat 64, Usman Khan 62, Mohammad Suleman 22; Mohammad Abbas 2-47, Shahid Aziz 2-53, Qasim Akram 2-81, Sirajuddin 2-91) and 166-2, 28 overs (Mohammad Tayyab Arif 91 not out, Mohammad Huraira 57)

SBP (overnight 209-4, 51.5 overs) 398 all-out, 97 overs (Ali Shan 100 not out, Kamran Ghulam 88, Faham-ul-Haq 49, Shahid Aziz 48, Abdullah Fazal 25; Umer Khan 5-111, Mohammad Ilyas 3-95)

MIT Solutions beat PTV by six wickets, Diamond Cricket Ground

MIT Solutions 412 all out, 88.4 overs (Mohammad Farooq 130, Abuzar Tariq 98, Hasnain Nadeem 49, Atiq-ur-Rehman 39, Aamir Jamal 30 not out; Kashif Ali 3-102, Khalil Ahmed 3-104, Ali Usman 2-79) and 50-4, 9.4 overs (Mohammad Farooq 25)

PTV 64 all out, 19.5 overs (Salman Aslam 6-18, Aamir Jamal 2-13) and (overnight 177-2, 43.1 overs) 394 all-out, 110 overs (Waqar Hussain 171, Taimur Khan 151, Mohammad Mohsin 19; Khalid Usman 4-90, Salman Aslam 3-89, Mohammad Ismail 3-105)

KRL v SNGPL, Shoaib Akhtar Cricket Stadium

KRL 151 all out, 50 overs (Shahzaib Khan 43, Sarmad Bhatti 31, Iftikhar Ahmed 28; Shehzad Gul 3-22, Shahnawaz Dahani 3-50, Mohammad Imran Randhawa 2-26) and (overnight 111-2, 29 overs) 234 all-out, 69.1 overs (Mohammad Faiq 66, Daniyal Ali Khan 59, Shahzaib Khan 32, Sarmad Bhatti 29; Shehzad Gul 5-61, Shahnawaz Dahani 3-66, Mohammad Ali 2-65)

SNGPL 195 all out, 54 overs (Mohammad Rizwan 64, Sameer Minhas 49, Mohammad Imran Randhawa 21, Abdul Samad 20; Daniyal Ali Khan 4-48, Ahmed Bashir 2-28, Arshad Iqbal 2-58, Saqib Khan 2-60) and 87-4, 27 overs (Mohammad Rizwan 22 not out, Abdul Samad 11 not out; Ahmed Bashir 2-23)

OGDCL v Ghani Glass, LCCA Ground

Ghani Glass 232 all out, 75.3 overs (Hussain Talat 71, Ali Razzaq 64, Haseebullah 30, Malik Abdul Rafay 28; Mohammad Hasnain 4-53, Aftab Ahmed 3-45, Mohammad Amir Khan 2-56) and 82-3, 26.3 overs (Hashim Ibrahim 34, Sharjeel Khan 34)

OGDCL (overnight 277-3, 63.2 overs) 410 not out, 102 overs (Imam-ul-Haq 200 not out, Saad Khan 88, Ali Zaryab 42, Mohammad Hammad Khan 21; Ubaid Shah 2-79)