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  • Watch: Lahore Qalandars’ Shaheen Shah Afridi cleans up Peshawar Zalmi’s Babar Azam with an absolute peach in PSL 2023

    PSL 2023: Babar Azam didn’t carry out in Peshawar Zalmi’s match towards Lahore Qalandars on Sunday. Shaheen Shah Afridi obtained his prized wicket.

    New Delhi,UPDATED: Feb 26, 2023 22:42 IST

    Watch: Shaheen Shah Afridi cleans up Babar Azam with an absolute peach. Courtesy: PSL Twitter

    By India Today Sports Desk: Babar Azam, on Sunday, February 27, didn’t carry out in Peshawar Zalmi’s match towards the Lahore Qalandars on the Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore. Babar began his knock with a 4 whereas opening the batting, however he couldn’t final lengthy.

    Babar was dismissed by left-arm quick bowler Shaheen Shah Afridi, who bowled an absolute peach. The speedster bowled one exterior the off-stump and Babar went for a half-hearted drive. The ball swung again a wee bit and beat Babar all finally ends up.

    Babar’s stumps went for a toss and Shaheen raised his fingers to have a good time in pleasure and jubilation. While chasing 242, the Zalmi misplaced each their openers, Babar and Mohammad Haris, in fairly fast succession with their rating at 28 in 2.5 overs.

    Earlier, after opting to bat first, the Qalandars put up an enormous rating of 241 for the lack of three wickets. Fakhar Zaman, who earlier grew to become the second batter after Babar to attain 2000 runs within the PSL, smashed his solution to 96 runs off 45 balls with the assistance of three fours and 10 sixes.

    Fakhar and Abdullah Shafique placed on 120 runs for the second wicket off 63 balls to put the platform for the Qalandars. Shafique threw his bat round to attain 75 runs off 41 balls with the assistance of 5 fours and as many sixes.

    Sam Billings got here to bat at No.4 and stayed unbeaten on 47 runs off 23 balls with 5 fours and three sixes. Arshad Iqbal was the decide of the bowlers as he completed with figures of 4-0-28-0. Although the pacer failed to choose up a wicket, he didn’t permit the batters to get on prime of him.

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    Feb 26, 2023

  • Quetta Gladiators vs Lahore Qalandars PSL 2023: Shaheen’s workforce eyes profitable return in opposition to Sarfaraz’s Quetta

    Quetta Gladiators vs Lahore Qalandars Pakistan Super League Live Cricket Score Streaming Online Today Match Updates

    Shaheen Shah Afridi in warm-ups for Lahore Qalandars forward of the upcoming PSL. (Twitter)

    Quetta Gladiators: Abdul Bangalzai, Aimal Khan, Wanindu Hasaranga de Silva, Martin Guptill, Iftikhar Ahmed, Mohammad Hafeez, Mohammad Hasnain, Mohammad Nawaz, Mohammad Zahid, Naseem Shah, Naveen-ul-Haq, Omair Yousuf, Qais Ahmad, Jason Roy, Sarfaraz Ahmed, Will Smeed, Odean Smith, Umaid Asif, Umar Akmal

    Lahore Qalandars: Shaheen Shah Afridi (c), Abdullah Shafique, Ahmed Daniyal, Harry Brook, Jordan Cox, Liam Dawson, Dilbar Hussain, Fakhar Zaman, Haris Rauf, Shai Hope, Hussain Talat, Jalat Khan, Kamran Ghulam, Mirza Baig, Rashid Khan, Shawaiz Irfan, Sikandar Raza, David Wiese, Zaman Khan

  • WATCH: Opening sport of PSL 8 will get delayed as a part of floodlight catches hearth

    The eighth season of the Pakistan Super League acquired off to fiery begin. Literally. The first match of the 2023 season of the PSL needed to be delayed as a result of a portion of the floodlights on the Multan Cricket Stadium caught hearth as a result of fireworks from the opening ceremony, in accordance with media experiences in Pakistan.

    Videos posted on social media confirmed panic among the many followers as part of the floodlights burned.

    ملتان اسٹیڈیم میں پی ایس ایل کی افتتاحی تقریب کے دوران ہونے والی آتش بازی کے باعث فلڈ لائٹس میں آگ لگ گئی… ریسکیو عملے نے آگ پر قابو پا لیا ہے#PSL8 pic.twitter.com/Td940KTWKP

    — Qadir Khawaja (@iamqadirkhawaja) February 13, 2023

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    The hearth was doused after the fireplace brigade was known as in. The drama led to a delay within the sport between Lahore Qalandars and Multan Sultans. The sport was equally as dramatic because the construct up, with the Lahore franchise prevailing by one run. The sport boiled right down to the house facet needing six runs off the ultimate ball and regardless of Khushdil Shah hitting the ultimate ball for a boundary, it was not sufficient.

    For Lahore, who batted first, Fakhar Zaman had set the tone with a 42-ball 66-run knock, with 5 sixes and three fours.

    On Tuesday, Karachi Kings will tackle Peshawar Zalmi.

  • Pakistan quick bowler Zaman Khan on comparisons with Umran Malik: Don’t actually care about tempo

    Lahore Qalandars quick bowler Zaman Khan mentioned that he prefers to focus extra on efficiency than tempo when requested about his comparability with Umran Malik.

    New Delhi,UPDATED: Feb 5, 2023 18:03 IST

    Don’t actually care about tempo: Zaman Khan on comparisons with Umran Malik. Courtesy: AP and Shaheen Shah Afridi Twitter

    By India Today Web Desk: Pakistan quick bowler Zaman Khan reckoned that tempo is ‘something natural’ and all he cares about is performing properly for the group he represents. The pacer made the feedback after he was requested about his comparisons with Indian quick bowler Umran Malik.

    The 21-year-old is thought for his round-arm motion with which he generates a good quantity of tempo. Zaman is part of the Lahore Qalandars for the upcoming version of the Pakistan Super League (PSL) to be performed from Monday, February 13 to Sunday, March 19.

    “If you talk about pace… I don’t really care about pace. I care about performances. It’s the performance that matters. Your pace is natural to you,” Khan was quoted as saying in a video uploaded on the official YouTube channel of paktv.television.

    In 30 T20s so far, the Mirpur-born Khan has picked up 40 wickets at an financial system price of 8.26 with one four-wicket to point out for his efforts. He additionally received the Emerging Cricketer of the PSL 2022 after he picked up 18 wickets.

    The Qalandars are the defending champions and can play their first match in opposition to Mohammad Rizwan’s Multan Sultans on the Multan Cricket Stadium on the opening day of the event.

    As far as Umran is worried, he has taken fast strides in his profession ever since he was roped in as a alternative for T Natarajan within the 2021 Indian Premier League (IPL). Malik clocks persistently within the 150s and in addition holds the report of the quickest supply by an Indian pacer in worldwide cricket.

    In 8 ODIs and eight T20Is, Malik picked up 13 and 11 wickets respectively. After a splendid season for the Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) within the 2021 IPL, Umran was drafted into the Indian group and he made his debut on the tour of Ireland.

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    Feb 5, 2023

  • Pakistan Super League 2023: Full squads of six groups after gamers draft

    By India Today Web Desk: The gamers draft for the 2023 version of the Pakistan Super League (PSL) passed off on Thursday, December 15, in Karachi.

    Over 500 gamers took half within the draft. Teams needed to decide from the Platinum, Diamond, Gold, Silver, Emerging and Supplementary classes.

    Franchises additionally made considered use of the proper to match playing cards. Quetta Gladiators used the RTM and took again Naseem Shah from Multan Sultans.

    Abrar Ahmed, who picked up 11 wickets on his Test debut in opposition to England, is about to ply his commerce for Islamabad United.

    From the likes of Rahmanullah Gurbaz, David Miller, Sikandar Raza, Moeen Ali, Rovman Powell, Imran Tahir and plenty of huge names are set to participate within the T20 league.

    Babar Azam is about to play for Peshawar Zalmi and has changed Wahab Riaz as their skipper. Imad Wasim, who captained Karachi Kings to victory in 2020, is again as their captain as Babar made a transfer to Zalmi.

    In the meantime, the likes of Mohammad Hafeez, Kamran Akmal and Ahmed Shehzad did not discover a place in any of the six squads.

    All 6 squads for PSL 2023

    Quetta Gladiators

    Mohammad Nawaz, Iftikhar Ahmed, Jason Roy, Mohammad Hasnain, Sarfaraz Ahmed, Naveen ul Haq, Umar Akmal, Will Smeed, Wanindu Hasaranga, Naseem Shah, Odean Smith, Ahsan Ali, Umaid Asif, Muhammad Zahid, Abdul Bangalzai, Aimal Khan, Martin Guptill, Omair Bin Yousuf

    Multan Sultans

    Mohammad Rizwan, Khushdil Shah, Rilee Rossouw, Shan Masood, Shahnawaz Dahani, Tim David, Abbas Afridi, Ihsanullah, David Miller, Josh Little, Akeal Hosein, Usama Mir, Usman Khan, Sameen Gul, Anwar Ali, Mohammad Sarwar, Adil Rashid, Arafat Minhas

    Peshawar Zalmi

    Babar Azam, Sherfane Rutherford, Wahab Riaz, Mohammad Haris, Aamir Jamal, Salman Irshad, Tom-Kohler Cadmore, Bhanuka Rajapaksa, Rovman Powell, Mujeeb ur Rahman, Danish Aziz, Arshad Iqbal, Saim Ayub, Usman Qadir, Suifyan Muqeem, Haseeb Ullah, Jimmy Neesham

    Islamabad United

    Shadab Khan, Asif Ali, Mohammad Wasim Jnr, Azam Khan, Faheem Ashraf, Hasan Ali, Colin Munro, Paul Stirling, Alex Hales, Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Fazalhaq Farooqi, Abrar Ahmed, Sohaib Maqsood, Rumman Raees, Zeeshan Zamir, Hassan Nawaz, Moeen Ali, Mubasir Khan

    Karachi Kings

    Haider Ali, Imad Wasim, Mohammad Amir, Shoaib Malik, Aamir Yamin, Mir Hamza, Sharjeel Khan, Qasim Akram, Matthew Wade, Imran Tahir, James Vince, James Fuller, Andrew Tye, Tayyab Tahir, Mohammad Akhlaq, Irfan Khan Niazi, Tabraiz Shamsi, Mohammad Umar

    Lahore Qalandars

    Rashid Khan, Shaheen Shah Afridi, David Wiese, Abdullah Shafique, Harry Brook, Kamran Ghulam, Zaman Khan, Fakhar Zaman, Hussain Talat, Sikandar Raza, Liam Dawson, Dilbar Hussain, Mirza Tahir Baig, Ahmed Danlyal, Shawaiz Irfan, Jordan Cox, Jalat Khan

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    Dec 15, 2022

  • ‘Even when Dawson was hitting Hasnain, I planned how I was going to get him out with a bouncer’ Haris Rauf tells the story behind Pakistan’s win in opposition to England

    Many within the Pakistan crowd on the National Stadium in Karachi had begun to go away after Liam Dawson walloped Mohammad Hasnain for 22 runs within the 18th over to scale back the equation to only 9 from two overs. Soon, it was 5 from 10 balls and at the same time as they have been shuffling out, Haris Rauf would bounce out Dawson to make them rethink. Soon, they have been caught within the second, yelling out his identify as Harris crammed the airwaves across the stadium. Did he discover them leaving?

    “Liam Dawson’s wicket was the turning point” @HarisRauf14 focuses on the shrewd techniques that led to Dawson’s wicket and lauds @MHasnainPak’s blazing opening spell 👏#PAKvENG | #UKSePK pic.twitter.com/TuxPJrWvnq

    — Pakistan Cricket (@TheRealPCB) September 25, 2022

    “To be honest, I didn’t. My focus was on the game,” he would say with a stunning smile. “Maine nahi dekha kaun gaya and Kaun nahi gaya!”

    Another query popped up about how Rauf had emerged from “nowhere” to make it massive within the Pakistan crew. He would point out about laborious work and willingness to be taught nevertheless it’s certainly been a narrative of rise from ghumnaami to shohrat, as he has as soon as mentioned, from anonymity to fame.

    Haris Rauf had tempo and aggression when he was younger. Now he has the tempo, managed aggression, and a whole lot of nuanced considering as Pakistan’s main pacer within the absence of Shaheen Afridi.

    It was the tempo that first edged him over cricketing trials at Lahore Qalandars 5 years in the past when he adopted up one other contender’s 86 mph supply with a ball that was one a mile sooner to catch the coach’s consideration. The nod got here when he bowled the following ball at 91mph. The first coach known as up the senior Aquib Javed to take a look; Rauf hit 92.3 mph and acquired the nod.

    It was aggression that pushed him into controversies – he would do a slit-throat celebration as just lately as 2020 in BBL and Qalandars’ coach Aquib Javed, who has labored rather a lot sprucing his bowling and cricketing smartness, needed to ship some house truths. This yr now we have seen Rauf, who would hunt down autographs from Virat Kohli off the sector, and naturally fireplace bouncers on the sector.

    Man of the second @HarisRauf14 provides Pakistan’s win within the fourth T20I on the National Stadium honours board ✍️#PAKvENG | #UKSePK pic.twitter.com/7HtYsmzNLv

    — Pakistan Cricket (@TheRealPCB) September 25, 2022

    But it’s the cricketing smartness that has stood out. Like on Sunday evening when Liam Dawson had plundered 24 runs within the 18th over in opposition to Mohammad Hasnain to stunningly flip across the match. Just 9 runs have been wanted when Rauf started the nineteenth over, and shortly it was simply 5 from 10 balls when Rauf started to run in to bowl at Dawson.

    A rewind right here to the earlier Hasnain over. Even when Dawson was slaying a slew of the complete balls from Hasnain all around the park, Rauf had his plan firmed up within the thoughts.

    “Mein plan kar raha tha. Thoda idea tha kahan ball kiya jaaye (I got the idea where to bowl at him). To get his wicket was the turning point, I had the confidence,” Rauf would say on the finish of the sport.

    The plan was to bowl a fiery bouncer. He tried one off the second ball nevertheless it didn’t climb as a lot and was pulled by Dawson to the midwicket boundary. Not that well-timed although and that additional spurred on Rauf whose subsequent ball was a cracker with extra spice and Dawson fell, tamely miscuing the pull to midwicket.

    Pakistan’s Harif Rauf celebrates after taking the wicket of England’s David Willey through the fourth twenty20 cricket match between Pakistan and England, in Karachi.

    “ I knew if I bowl my best ball to tailender I will get his wicket.” And so, the following ball was full and quick that splayed the stumps of Olly Stone. He almost ended the sport subsequent ball with a searing yorker which was nearly stabbed out. It would finish with a run out within the final over, when Shan Masood swooped in from midwicket to expire Reece Topley on the non-striker’s finish.

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    How Aquib Javed and Glenn Maxwell helped Rauf enhance

    Rauf, who grew up on tape-ball cricket, credit Aquib Javed with a whole lot of his enchancment with the leather-based ball. “I would say I was a zero with hard ball when I came under Aquib bhai,” he says in a YouTube chat with former Pakistan captain Salman Butt. “It was Aquib bhai who taught me to focus on my strengths first.” Rather than splinter the give attention to variations, Aquib acquired him to get his yorkers and bouncers useless on. “He would keep saying every ball you have to bowl a yorker in PSL. I have worked really hard.” Once he acquired management, then he let his artistic mind wander to select up different expertise like slower one, which he used liberally to impress in BBL 2020.

    Pakistan’s Haris Rauf reacts after taking the wicket of England’s Phil Salt through the second T20 cricket match between Pakistan and England, in Karachi, Pakistan. (AP)

    He additionally would run into Glenn Maxwell there in Australia, his captain, who instantly sensed how important Rauf might be. “He used me well in the death overs, gave me confidence, even gave me the last over in my first match; he trusted me. That he believed that I can do it was a big deal.”

    He even talks about the way it was Maxwell who would set the sector for him. “I just had to bowl, he knew which areas to set the field according to my bowling. He was very helpful. I enjoyed the BBL a lot.”

    Now it’s Australia the place he would return with Pakistan for the T20 World Cup with an enhanced repute as a canny pacer who can bowl every thing and is aware of find out how to deal with stress higher than most.

    One story for the highway, on how uniquely he handles stress. Once, in a last of Abu Dhabi T20 Trophy for Qalandars in opposition to the Albie Morkel led crew, simply earlier than he was to bowl the final over, a substitute would run out with a bottle of water and urge him to drink. Pre-game, the coach Aquib had advised how the prize cash will probably be shared amongst all gamers in the event that they win this sport.

    “Harry, har ball aisey karaani hai, jaisey dus-dus lakh ka sawaal hai,” (You should bowl each ball as 10 lakhs trip on every ball!) “It made me laugh but before I bowled it came to me, ‘haan yaar, 10 lakh ka sawaal hai!” As if the stress of profitable the sport wasn’t sufficient, there was this considered cash using on it now. For lesser mortals, it may need meant a extra nervy hurdle. What did Rauf do? He gave away simply three runs and took out Albie to win the sport.

  • View, Review: What’s in a group identify? Imagination, or a scarcity of it

    Earlier this week, the Indian Premier League newcomers Lucknow franchise unveiled their identify: Lucknow Super Giants. If group proprietor Sanjiv Goenka is to be believed, the identify was finalised based mostly on a crowd-sourced marketing campaign. Talk about an unimaginative crowd.

    Team proprietor, Dr. Sanjiv Goenka, Chairman @rpsggroup unveils the identify for the Lucknow IPL group. 😊👏🏼#LucknowSuperGiants #NaamBanaoNaamKamao #IPL2022 @IPL @BCCI @GautamGambhir @klrahul11 pic.twitter.com/TvGaZlIgFR
    — Lucknow Super Giants (@LucknowIPL) January 24, 2022
    “Don’t listen to Shakespeare. There’s everything in a name, and we’re waiting for one,” the group’s social media channels declared on January 3, asserting the fan contest. For three weeks, quite a few movies in addition to group mentor Gautam Gambhir — “pehli baar, aap rakhenge IPL team ka naam [for the first time, you will get to name an IPL team]” — referred to as on individuals to drop strategies on their web site.
    It took three weeks for the familiar-sounding Lucknow Super Giants to be chosen. The RP Sanjiv Goenka group earlier had a franchise within the IPL named the Rising Pune Super Giants, and observers had rapidly picked up on the play: RPSG’s RPSG. The identify was modified to Rising Pune Supergiant for the group’s remaining season in 2017.
    But Deccan Chronicle had lengthy beat them to the initials sport, once they named their group Deccan Chargers. It is high-stakes sport, and the proprietor’s curiosity is paramount. Royal Challengers Bangalore and Sunrisers Hyderabad too are a reference to their house owners’ companies.
    Hockey India League’s Delhi Waveriders one-upped the above. Putting Waveriders (surfers?) in land-locked Delhi. At least the house owners, The Wave Group, had an excuse. Why are kabaddi group Patna Pirates’ house owners misplaced at sea?

    The examples above aren’t any patch on the Kings, Royals, Sultans et al. Reminder: India isn’t a monarchy and princely states haven’t been a factor since 1950 (or 1971, for those who depend the privy purse). Kings XI Punjab tried to tweak the formulation for some time, earlier than switching to… Punjab Kings.
    Then there’s Warriors, the Lorem Ipsum, John Smith, placeholder textual content of sports activities franchises. Cricket’s Pune Warriors, badminton’s North Eastern Warriors and Awadhe Warriors, kabaddi’s Bengal Warriors, and hockey’s Punjab Warriors and Maratha Warriors. And these are the Warriors in India alone. Let’s cross the Golden Gate bridge whereas we’re at it.
    A big chunk of such fashionable (nonsensical) nomenclature owes it to American sports activities.
    There are the geographically-redundant Los Angeles Angels and Philadelphia Phillies. There are Ducks and Pelicans. (When naming after a fowl or animal, shouldn’t the thought be to decide on one thing fierce?)
    Loads of weak group names in American sports activities are attributable to groups shifting bases and never altering names. NBA’s Jazz have been based in New Orleans, undisputed dwelling to the music style. The group hightailed to the desert and Salt Lake City, Utah, ensuing within the complicated Utah Jazz.
    The Lakers spent 12 years in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the “Land of Ten Thousand Lakes”, earlier than shifting to Los Angeles, California in 1959. The identify doesn’t make a lot sense, however is saved by LA Lakers’ success and the alliteration.

    Then there are the names that don’t make sense however have logical origins. Denver Nuggets usually are not sponsored by KFC. San Francisco 49ers didn’t select random digits. Both names are references to the historic gold rush within the American West.
    There’s no Hogwarts in Washington. The identify Washington Wizards was a results of the house owners feeling uncomfortable with the franchise’s unique identify ‘Bullets’, given the implied violence in a metropolis that was affected by excessive crime charges. The new identify too generated controversy as ‘Wizard’ is a rank within the white supremacist group Ku Klux Klan, and Washington has a big African-American inhabitants. It wouldn’t be the one offensive identify in American sports activities. Till not too long ago, the NFL had groups referred to as ‘Redskins’ and ‘Indians’.
    NBA’s Detroit Pistons did the naming factor effectively. The membership originated in Fort Wayne and was named after car magnate Fred Zollner’s piston firm. And once they moved in 1957, they moved to Detroit, the automotive capital generally known as ‘Motor City’. That Isaiah Thomas and the Bad Boys have been a machine and ran roughshod through the 80s made it even higher.

    Pune Pistons, from the now-defunct Indian Badminton League, thus made sense, with town’s standing as one of many car hubs of India.
    There have been comparable flashes of creativity elsewhere. There are Kings, Royals, Sultans and Warriors in each Caribbean Premier League and Pakistan Super League. But there are additionally native references.
    CPL had a franchise referred to as the Antigua Hawksbills, named after the Hawksbill sea turtle native to the west Atlantic. The identify introduced deal with a critically endangered species. The group went extinct in 2014.

    There are the Jamaica Tallawahs. Tallawah (nothing to do with MS Dhoni) is the Jamaican twist on ‘stalwart’, which means the strong-willed and courageous.
    In PSL, there’s the Lahore Qalandars. Qalandar, ‘a title in Sufism’, is an ideal match for town that homes the most important Sufi shrine in South Asia. Also, within the Peshawar Zalmi, the suffix is a Pashto phrase which means youth.
    The Premier Hockey League was a uncommon win in that regard. The competitors’s four-year existence coincided with the darkest hour of Indian hockey, with the group failing to qualify for the 2008 Olympics. But there was a semblance of making an attempt to construct a reference to a metropolis’s heritage and followers. For Bangalore Lions, there have been Sher-e-Jalandhar. For Hyderabad Sultans, Chennai Veerans. And with Orissa Steelers, they struck gold. Odisha, in fact, is the very best metal producing state within the nation. The league ceased in 2008, IPL got here into existence and seemingly set the template for sports activities group names in India.
    Falling again on the nation’s identify after failing to provide you with something unique, nevertheless, deserves a point out.

    NFL’s Houston Texans (a state, on this occasion) not less than play to a rivalry with Dallas Cowboys. And NHL’s Montreal Canadiens not less than infused the Quebecois flavour with the French spelling.
    What’s the excuse for calling an IPL group Mumbai Indians? Are the remaining Kyrgyztanis? But hey, it might be worse. At least they didn’t run a three-week contest beforehand.

  • Karachi Kings qualify for PSL playoffs, knock out Lahore Qalandars

    Defending champion Karachi Kings squeaked into the Pakistan Super League playoffs after beating Quetta Gladiators by 14 runs in its do-or-die final league recreation on Saturday.
    Karachi completed on 10 factors alongside Lahore Qalandars, however its higher internet run-rate knocked out the 2020 finalist from the playoffs.
    Quetta completed on the underside of the desk with solely two wins from 10 video games.
    Danish Aziz’s whirlwind knock of 45 runs off 13 balls lifted Karachi to 176-7. The left-hander smacked 33 runs in Jack Wildermuth’s penultimate over of the innings from 4 consecutive sixes and two boundaries.
    Quetta, which made 5 modifications in its final league recreation, ended up at 162-7. Captain Sarfaraz Ahmed was unbeaten on 51 off 33 balls.
    Quetta debutant left-arm spinner Arish Ali Khan grabbed 4-28 as Karachi slipped to 121-5 within the seventeenth over. But Aziz’s masterful knock turned the tide in Karachi’s favor.
    Wildermuth was introduced into the assault instead of quick bowler Naseem Shah, who pulled a calf muscle simply earlier than he was about to bowl the penultimate over, and limped off the sector.
    Fast bowler Mohammad Ilyas (3-39) ran via the Quetta prime order and Arshad Iqbal chipped in with 2-39.
    Fast bowler Mohammad Amir twice got here near his first wicket in 5 PSL video games, however first Wildermuth efficiently overturned an lbw choice via tv referral and Amir dropped a sitter off his personal bowling off the following supply to finish up with 0-21.
    Later Saturday, PSL chief Islamabad United beat second-placed Multan Sultans by 4 wickets to consolidate its spot on the prime of the standings.
    Mohammad Wasim took 4-31 from 4 overs as Islamabad restricted Multan to 149 from its 20 overs after captain Shadab Khan received the toss and elected to discipline first.
    Shan Masood prime scored for Multan with 59 off 37 balls, with six boudaries and three sixes, however the opener misplaced companions recurrently because the Sultans innings by no means received going.
    Khan led the reply for Islamabad with 35 from 27 blls and shared helpful patnerships with Muhammad Akhlaq (26) and Hussain Talat (34) to win with two balls to spare.
    The two groups meet once more on Monday in a qualifying remaining, with Karachi to play Peshawar in an elimination remaining on Tuesday.

  • Watch: Chris Gayle do ‘googly’ dance on the sphere whereas lighting up PSL with blazing knock

    Image Source : TWITTER Chris Gayle does his well-known ‘googly’ dance on the bottom in Karachi on Monday evening.
    Chris Gayle was at his blazing greatest on Monday evening when the burly Jamaican mild up the continued Pakistan Super League with a firework of an innings of 68 runs off simply 44 deliveries for Quetta Gladiators towards Lahore Qalandars. He smashed 5 sixes and as many boundaries throughout the course of the innings earlier than falling prey to Afghan spin wizard Rashid Khan.
    The 40-year-old West Indian was absolutely having fun with his batting on the evening as he later did his well-known ‘googly’ dance on the sphere throughout a break on the request of  commentator Ramiz Raja. 

    You may also watch spotlight of his entertaining innings within the video beneath: 

    However, his innings turned out to be for the dropping trigger as Fakhar Zaman and Mohammad Hafeez smashed half-centuries for Lahore to  thump Quetta by 9 wickets.
    Left-handed opener Fakhar made 82 off 52 balls and 41-year-old Hafeez hit a blistering 73 off simply 33 balls in Lahore’s robust run-chase of 179-1 with 10 balls to spare.

    Both batsmen have been dropped however raised a 115-run, match-winning stand off solely 58 balls.
    Hafeez smashed six sixes and 5 fours that included the profitable boundary towards Mohammad Hasnain by way of the covers at hand Quetta its second successive loss within the six-team occasion.
    “The ball was coming nicely onto the bat and we always knew we will chase it down,” Lahore captain Sohail Akhtar stated. “Hafeez and Fakhar paced the run chase very well and it was an outstanding performance.”
    Earlier, after being put into bat, Lahore let veteran Chris Gayle (68) off the hook twice earlier than he anchored Quetta to 178-6.
    Gayle, dropped within the 20s by Agha Salman at deep mid-wicket, hit 5 fours and 5 sixes earlier than Afghanistan legspinner Rashid Khan clear bowled him within the fifteenth over.
    Gayle shared 101-run stand with captain Sarfaraz Ahmed, who returned to some batting type with 40 off 31 balls earlier than getting a prime edge off a mistimed pull towards quick bowler Haris Rauf, who took 3-38.
     (With inputs from AP).