Shaheen Shah Afridi dealt two early blows and Fakhar Zaman continued his wealthy run of batting kind as Lahore Qalandars inflicted a crushing eight-wicket defeat on Quetta Gladiators within the Pakistan Super League.
Earlier, Karachi Kings had its sixth successive loss when Peshawar Zalmi handed the 2020 champion a 55-run defeat.
Left-hander Fakhar (53 runs off 42 balls) scored his fifth half-century — to go together with his century towards Karachi — as Lahore romped to 143-2 in 17.4 overs.
Made to bat first, Quetta needed to accept a below-par complete of 141-7 after Afridi eliminated Jason Roy and James Vince, each with out scoring, in his very good first over of the match.
Fakhar hit six boundaries in his seventh PSL recreation this season and stretched his runs tally to 469 to be the main run-scorer within the event earlier than he skied a slog-sweep to midwicket within the sixteenth over.
Kamran Ghulam remained unbeaten on 55 and led Lahore’s sturdy chase by sharing a 77-run second-wicket stand with Fakhar.
Quetta had relied closely on Roy’s power-hitting of their earlier two wins. But the Englishman gloved behind off Afridi’s second supply, and Vince was clear bowled the subsequent ball, and Quetta struggled to place up a difficult complete.
After its fifth win in seven video games, Lahore occupies the second spot within the desk with 10 factors behind Multan Sultans, which has 12 factors. Quetta has six factors.
KARACHI LOSE AGAIN
Nothing appeared to go proper for the injury-hit Karachi crew, led by Babar Azam, as its batters but once more struggled and reached simply 138-6 in its unsuccessful chase towards Peshawar.
After shedding the toss, Peshawar had earlier capitalized on sloppy Karachi fielding to attain 193-6 with the opening pair of Hazratullah Zazai (52 off 42) and 20-year-old newcomer Mohammad Haris (49 off 27) offering a rolling begin of 97 runs from 10 overs.
Australian Ben Cutting offered a late flourish to Peshawar’s complete with a breezy 26 off 15 balls that included three boundaries towards Chris Jordan (3-41) within the nineteenth over.
Babar had scored an unbeaten 90 towards Peshawar within the first leg at Karachi in a shedding trigger and once more on Sunday his 59 runs off 46 balls weren’t sufficient.
“The drop chances and death bowling led to a score that was well over par,” Babar mentioned. “We played poorly in the powerplay and that cost us the match… but they bowled well and deserve credit for it.” Power-hitter Sharjeel Khan’s struggles within the powerplay continued earlier than he holed out within the fifth over after scoring 14 off 16 balls as Karachi slipped to 33-1 within the first six overs.
Fast bowlers Salman Irshad (2-24) and captain Wahab Riaz (2-26) did not permit Babar and Joe Clarke to attain freely because the boundaries dried up for Karachi.
Liam Livingstone (1-22) additionally bowled three tidy overs within the center and had Clarke clear bowled off his leg-spin for a run-a-ball 26.
Babar acquired little assist from the opposite finish to tempo the chase earlier than Irshad had him leg earlier than wicket off a full-pitched supply within the seventeenth over.
Karachi is on the point of elimination, needing not solely to win its remaining 4 league video games but in addition hoping outcomes go elsewhere of their favor. Peshawar continues to be within the race for the playoff with six factors from seven video games.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
