Pakistan Super League (PSL) Third Edition-News, Updates and Discussions

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Result

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  Lahore Qalandars
  115/4 (18.4/20 over, target 115)

Qalandars won by 6 wickets (with 8 balls remaining)

 

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Rana sahab ki tasveer dikhao aaj

 

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Rana sahab ki tasveer dikhao aaj

 

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[AZADPAKISTAN2009]

Good to see Rana Sahib have a victory moment after lot of Patience

This guy has a promising future if he is groomed well in image of Akram or Younis
17 Year tender age lot of time to learn and evolve

Together with

• Sadab Khan (Last Years Find)
• Amir
  
• Imad Wasim

Certainly a nice fresh look for Pakistan's national side long term prospects
However Yasir Shah has been a quite disappointmnt so far

 

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Shaheen Afridi Best Bowling 5 Wickets in PSL | Lahore Qalandars Vs Multan Sultans | HBL PSL 2018

 

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SHAHEEN AFRIDI’S FIVE-WICKET HAUL HELP LAHORE QALANDARS TO REGISTER FIRST WIN IN PSL 3

DUBAI: Shaheen Shah Afridi’s five-wicket haul finally provided Lahore Qalandars’ its first win of the season after six straight losses in the ongoing tournament.

Batting first Multan Sultans have set target of 115-runs for Lahore Qalandars in the 20th match of the Pakistan Super League (PSL 3) being played at Dubai Cricket Stadium on Friday.

In response Qalandars easily chased down the target in 18.4 overs for the loss of four wickets. Brendon McCullum was the highest run-scorer from Qalandars. He made not out 35 runs 0ff (35) balls.

First Innings:

Kumar Sangakkara provided a good start to Multan Sultans by smashing a brisk 45 off 30 balls, before getting out on Narine’s delivery. Shaheen Afridi picked up his career best five-wicket haul.

Ahmed Shehzad and Sohaib Maqsood were the other batsmen who make it to double figures. Shehzad scored 32 runs off 34 balls.

Earlier, Multan Sultans won the toss and opted to bat against Lahore Qalandars in the first fixture today airing from Dubai.

Lahore’s dismal run has plagued them throughout the entirety of this PSL as well, losing all six matches thus far they will ook to redeem themselves by trying to get atleast a singular win under their belt.

Multan have won 4 out of their 7 matches, with two losses and one washout.

Multan Sultans

Head coach: Tom Moody

Captain: Shoaib Malik

Squad: Shoaib Malik (c), Ahmed Shehzad, Darren Bravo, Abdullah Shafique, Saif Badar, Nicholas Pooran, Kumar Sangakkara, Sohaib Maqsood, Kashif Bhatti, Shan Masood, Thisara Perera, Mohammad Abbas, Umar Siddiq, Ross Whiteley, Imran Tahir, Junaid Khan, Mohammad Irfan, Sohail Tanvir, Umar Gul, Hardus Viljoen



Lahore Qalandars

Head coach: Aqib Javed

Captain: Brendon McCullum

Squad: Brendon McCullum (c), Fakhar Zaman, Umar Akmal, Dinesh Ramdin, Anton Devcich, Bilal Asif, Cameron Delport, Bilawal Bhatti, Aamer Yamin, Ghulam Mudassar, Mitchell McClenaghan, Mustafizur Rahman, Sunil Narine, Raza Hasan, Shaheen Afridi, Sohail Khan, Yasir Shah

 

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I don't think anyone will break the record of 5 wickets for 4 runs records for 100 years

 

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Shaheen Afridi Best Bowling 5 Wickets in PSL | Lahore Qalandars Vs Multan Sultans | HBL PSL 2018

Qalandar fail every year but bring some new interesting players. Last year Fakhar Zaman and this year Shaeen Afridi who can make in to national team.

 

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Please don’t ask Najam Sethi for PSL passes

Pakistan Cricket Board Chairman Najam Sethi - File photo

LAHORE: Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairman Najam Sethi tweeted on Saturday that people should not ask him for free Pakistan Super League (PSL) passes.

Sethi’s tweet comes as demand for tickets of the knockout stages to be played in Lahore and for the final in Karachi have increased.

Sethi addressed friends, family, top government officials, corporate bigwigs and others to buy PSL tickets online or from TCS centres in Lahore and Karachi. “Please don’t ask me for free passes. You can all afford to pay.”


Two PSL eliminators will be played in Lahore on March 20 and 21 while the final will be held in Karachi on March 25. Tickets for the eliminators are currently on sale, while tickets for the final will go on sale March 15.

 

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22nd Match (D/N),

Pakistan Super League at Dubai, Mar 10 2018

• 
  Karachi Kings
  188/3

• 
  Multan Sultans
  125 (19.4/20 over, target 189)

Karachi Kngs won by 63 runs


PLAYER OF THE MATCH

Shahid Afridi
Karachi Kings

 

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23rd Match (N),
Pakistan Super League at Dubai, Mar 10 2018

• 
  Peshawar Zalmi
  120/5 * (17/20 over)

• 
  Quetta Gladiators
  

Quetta Gladiators won the toss and elected to field

Current Run Rate

7.05

Last 5 Over (Run Rate)

30/2 (6.00)

 

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• Peshawar Zalmi
• 157/5

• 
  Quetta Gladiators
  158/4 (19.2/20 over)

Quetta Glad won by 6 wickets (with 4 balls remaining)

PLAYER OF THE MATCH

Sarfraz Ahmed
Quetta Gladiators


Danny Morrison, Michael Slater, Ramiz Raja and Alan Wilkins! Today's outfit for the commentators and probably the best commentator team PSL has ever had.

 

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• Hussain Talat

Hussain Talat is a 22-year-old big-hitting batsman from Shahdara, on the outskirts of Lahore, who has made a particularly good start to his career in one-day cricket. He is playing his second season of the Pakistan Super League, for Islamabad United, and is desperate to become a household name of Pakistan cricket. Here are his thoughts of growing up in a small town - the same one Abdul Razzaq calls home - and his hopes for the future.

Cricket. I picked it up because my father and his brothers run a sports shop, Ravi Cricket Club, in Shahdara in Lahore. But the focus was my elder brother; they wanted him to go big and represent Pakistan at highest level but later they realised that I was also into cricket and had the potential so the focus then shifted to me.

The streets are where I started playing, but I had no real ambition, I was just playing because it was what all kids my age did. Because cricket is very close to our heart. It's part of our curriculum. Abdul Razzaq, the famous allrounder, was from my area and that was a source of pride for me. He later left the town and moved to Lahore and his success was something that tempted me. He used to live some two streets away from us and thinking about that always made me feel good.

Also when I was around 10, international cricket was regularly being played here at home. Things were normal back then. We used to have proper cricketing activates going around. I remember in 2006, I watched the Pakistan-India Test in Karachi at home, covered up in a blanket on a cold morning. I also remember I had a final exam but Kamran Akmal was batting that day and I was desperately praying for him to score a hundred. So growing up in a home like that, with my childhood filled with cricket, it pushed me to play.

New Lion Sports, that's the name of the shop I managed as a 15-year-old. We have two shops and my father handed that one over to me. I left regular studies when I was in 7th standard; joined Muslim Model School because they let us appear for final exams and spend the rest of our time playing cricket. So there was a set routine, getting up early, taking my kit bag, putting it in front of my motorbike, and heading for Minto Park to practice.

Practice finished around 11.30 am and then I would drive back to open my sports shop which was situated in front of the Abdul Razzaq stadium in our town. Later in the day, I would pick up my kitbag again and go to Minto Park for some more practice with Victorious Cricket Club, and after finishing around sunset return to my shop and sit there until 11pm. So that was how I spent my teens. Minto Park, the shop, and Minto park again.

Everyone has a history behind them. I used to sell bangles and firecrackers on Eid in front of my shop and also sold threads for flying kites just to keep my livelihood. I was on my own with a shop in the lower-middle-class part of town. So life hasn't been so good to me, but I did what I had to do to earn money and never let my passion for cricket go down. You see, we have all struggled in life to achieve something and I am thankful that it's paying off well. I am the now the most loved person in my house. My mother had reservations about allowing me to play cricket, but now she is so happy when she sees me walking out into the field.

I grew up playing on cement tracks in Shahdara. Teams there used to score 500-plus in 35 overs and it would be chased down easily. So there was no concept of blocking or getting out. It was just all about power-hitting. The grounds here are not really big either, so scoring 300-400 runs is a very normal thing. Our town was the scariest one for visiting teams. I was bit conservative with my batting approach earlier but playing more frequently on those cement tracks made me open my arms a bit more. So that is how I learnt big hitting.

My first-class average - 27.35 - isn't really something I am proud of but I am evolving and I understand I have to tone myself down in four-day cricket. But at the same time, our four-day cricket in Pakistan is more difficult with a lot of changes in the ball we use, the pitches, even the format of the tournament. So it's not just about ability, but adapting to all those changes. I know I can do it, though, because the basics of the game are the same.