Pakistan Super League - 7 (PSL-7) 2022
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(12/20 ov, target 142)..................................95/1
Qalandars need 47 runs in 48 balls.
Current RR: 7.91
• Required RR: 5.87
• Last 5 ov (RR): 47/0 (9.40)
Win Probability:
LQ 96.97% •
QG 3.03%
Qalandars need 47 runs in 48 balls.
Current RR: 7.91
• Required RR: 5.87
• Last 5 ov (RR): 47/0 (9.40)
Win Probability:
LQ 96.97% •
QG 3.03%
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(17.4/20 overs, target 142)...........143/2
Qalandars won by 8 wickets (with 14 balls remaining)
Fakhar Zaman, made 53 off 42:
On his form Feels good, I'm trying to score quick and get into an innings. Our gameplay has not changed much but the wickets are suiting our bowlers and batters. It's not easy to come in and score from the get go. Our bowlers have done really well and we have managed to score runs too which gives us an advantage.
On Shaheen: you can see how he has improved and proven himself. I've observed it as a senior and he's been very good.
On being asked whether they can win the tournament: we can definitely do it if we keep playing the way we are.
The second innings went down with few hiccups for Lahore but the damage was done by Shaheen in the first over of the first innings. The second innings had some tight bowling from Quetta but Lahore saw through the bowling by rotating strike and picking up the odd boundary to stay ahead of the required rate
Qalandars won by 8 wickets (with 14 balls remaining)
Fakhar Zaman, made 53 off 42:
On his form Feels good, I'm trying to score quick and get into an innings. Our gameplay has not changed much but the wickets are suiting our bowlers and batters. It's not easy to come in and score from the get go. Our bowlers have done really well and we have managed to score runs too which gives us an advantage.
On Shaheen: you can see how he has improved and proven himself. I've observed it as a senior and he's been very good.
On being asked whether they can win the tournament: we can definitely do it if we keep playing the way we are.
The second innings went down with few hiccups for Lahore but the damage was done by Shaheen in the first over of the first innings. The second innings had some tight bowling from Quetta but Lahore saw through the bowling by rotating strike and picking up the odd boundary to stay ahead of the required rate
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Fakhar, Ghulam, bowlers give Qalandars comfortable win
Iftikhar Ahmed's fifty in vain as Qalandars tightened their grip on second spot
Shaheen Shah Afridi bowled James Vince for a first-ball duck PSL
Lahore Qalandars 143 for 2 (Fakhar 53, Ghulam 55*) beat Quetta Gladiators 141 for 7 (Iftikhar 52, Afridi 2-27, Wiese 2-25) by eight wickets
Top-order runs and a ruthless new-ball bowling performance from Lahore Qalandars saw Shaheen Shah Afridi's side coast to a eight-wicket victory over Quetta Gladiators. It began with the trademark Afridi first over which brought two wickets, including the prized scalp of Jason Roy. Before long, the Gladiators had slumped to 25 for 4, with the recovery only taking them to 141. It was never really a challenge for the home side, with fifties from Fakhar Zaman and Kamran Ghulam seeing them canter to victory with 2.3 overs to spare.
Roy gloved the second ball of the game to Phil Salt behind the stumps, and the Gladiators once more began to look like the tepid, unimpressive side that managed just one win in four games without him. Fellow Englishman James Vince was cleaned up with a pearler, darting between bat and pad to clean up the stumps. The Gladiators' penchant for errant running cost them dearly soon after, with the previous day's Player of the Match Sarfaraz Ahmed run out off a direct hit cheaply. Rashid Khan, who bowled a glorious spell, conceding just 13 in four overs, bowled Ahsan Ali with a googly in his first over to leave the Gladiators reeling.
The recovery came initially through another little cameo from Umar Akmal, and then a 51-run stand between Iftikhar Ahmed and Hassan Khan. Iftikhar scored a 39-ball 52 to ensure the Gladiators would have something to bowl at, but needed to bat through the innings to realistically give them a defendable total. Once he holed out in the 18th over, the innings petered out.
There was little jeopardy in the second innings. The Qalandars didn't go hard in the powerplay, but only because they didn't especially need to. Ghulam Mudassar removed Abdullah Shafique early but Fakhar's sensational stint in the PSL showed no signs of abating. The opener struck six boundaries during a 42-ball 53, and even when he top-edged one off Noor Ahmed to end his knock, his side required just 24 more in 27 balls.
Mudassar and Mohammad Hafeez picked those off with little fuss as the Qalandars tightened their grip on second spot. They're on the brink of making the playoff stages of a tournament that will now be played entirely at home for them. The side so accustomed to finishing bottom might have some home glory in store for them after all.
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Islamabad United squeeze out one-run win despite injuries to Shadab Khan, Zeeshan Zameer
Karachi Kings slide to seventh straight loss despite Imad-Qasim heroics
Shadab Khan top-scored for Islamabad United with 34 off 26 balls before he was forced off the field in the second half PSL
Islamabad United 191 for 7 (Shadab 34, Asif 28, Imad 2-30) beat Karachi Kings 190 for 8 (Imad 55, Qasim 51, Maqsood 3-34) by one run
Islamabad United were the side beset by injuries, but the insult was all Karachi Kings. It went much, much deeper than anyone might have believed six overs before the death, and took a third umpire's decision on a marginal run-out to settle the outcome. But for the Kings, the result in the end was no different to their previous six games: a defeat. They become the first PSL side to lose their first seven PSL games, and the first to be eliminated from this year's competition. But in the end, the story of United's one-run win was much too dramatic to be reduced to mere numbers.
Chasing 192, Kings were given a boost when two key United bowlers - Shadab Khan and Zeeshan Zameer - were forced off the field with injuries, leading to Asif Ali needing to bowl three overs, and taking two wickets in his first over. It was some generous fielding from United at the death and a spirited stand between Imad Wasim and Qasim Akram that even made this game a contest, but several cameos from United with the bat meant they had just about enough runs to ensure their profligacy wasn't punished.
It came down to a nail-biting final over from Waqas Maqsood, in which Kings needed eight. A boundary off the second ball brought it down to a run-a-ball, but two wickets took the game right down to the final delivery, off which the Kings needed two. Chris Jordan spooned it back to Maqsood, who somehow dropped it, but managed to gather and effect a direct hit at the non-striker's end. Jordan was inches short of the popping crease that would have guaranteed the Kings a Super Over, and United had just about clung on to victory in a game they should have sealed long ago.
United had major problems throughout their defence of 191 with Shadab and Zameer missing, and for much of the first ten overs, the Kings needed to bide their time, stay in the game, and target whoever bowled the other three overs. But when Asif Ali, who had a grand total of two career T20 wickets, stepped up, he removed Sharjeel off a rank long-hop with his first ball, and cleaned up Mohammad Nabi four deliveries later. The Kings were 80 for 5, and the game seemed done and dusted.
But Pakistan U-19 captain Qasim and Imad struck up a glorious counterattacking partnership that put their side on the brink of victory. Qasim rode his luck to score an unbeaten 51 off 26, while Imad Wasim smashed 55 off 28, both capitalising on United losing their discipline on the field. No fewer than half-a-dozen catches were shelled, and ones were allowed to turn into two and four as the nerves tightened while the runs flowed freely. Hasan Ali was at the receiving end of another death-overs pasting; he was smashed for 16 runs in the penultimate over that left Qasim with so little to work with.
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