Abbottabad's chase was never on, jolted early by Samiullah Khan Niazi. Samiullah cleaned up the top order with three wickets. Abbottabad then lost three wickets with no addition to the score, including two to the excellent Shahid Nazir and at 57 for 7, the contest was long gone. Saeed Ajmal cleaned up the tail to finish with 3 for 4.
Karachi Dolphins got off to a winning start by making light work of Hyderabad Hawks at the National Stadium. After restricting the visitors to 119, the game never looked like getting out of Karachi's hands.
Opener Shahzaib Hasan, having reprsented Pakistan at the World Twenty20 in 2009, provided the fireworks during the chase, smashing 46 off 21 balls, including six fours and two sixes. Once Karachi had reached the halfway mark in just the fourth over, Khalid Latif continued the momentum, blitzing 32 off 15 balls. The Dolphins sealed the win in the 10th over. Hyderabad made a tentative start with opener Sharjeel Khan managing a near-run-a-ball 39, but three run-outs in the space of three overs meant they ended on a well below-par score. Fawad Alam was Karachi's most successful bowler with 2 for 20.
Multan Tigers recorded their second consecutive win after cruising past Quetta Bears by seven wickets.
Mohammad Hafeez and the tall Mohammad Irfan - at six foot ten, one of the tallest bowlers currently playing - set it up by sharing seven wickets between them to restrict Quetta to a poor 99. Rameez Alam then scored an unbeaten half-century to guide them home within 17 overs.
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