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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.

    Edited By:

    sabyasachi chowdhury

    Published On:

    Feb 26, 2023

  • 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.

    Edited By:

    sabyasachi chowdhury

    Published On:

    Feb 5, 2023