Islamabad United vs Peshawar Zalmi in PSL 7:
Azam Khan's mission incomplete, Peshawar Zalmi beat Islamabad United by 10 runs
If a team knows that its rival team is going to enter the field without an all-rounder captain, an aggressive opener and an experienced fast bowler, then their spirits start talking from the sky even before the first ball.
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| Azam Khan's mission incomplete, Peshawar Zalmi beat Islamabad United by 10 runs |
The same thing happened on Thursday night with Peshawar Zalmai who knew that the names of Shadab Khan, Alex Hales and Hassan Ali were not in Islamabad team sheet and that is why he attacked from the beginning which made Islamabad United. Made him unconscious.
Peshawar Zalmi won the toss and elected to bat first and scored 206 runs for the loss of 8 wickets.
Islamabad United's lead faltered when Azam Khan's brilliant innings ended and he suffered a 10-run defeat.
This is Peshawar Zalmi's fifth win in the ninth match while United has lost for the fourth time in the eighth match.
In the same tournament, Islamabad had crossed the target of 169 runs against Zalmai in Karachi but there are two matches in which they failed to cross the target of 219 and 175 and now they did not cross the target of 207 runs. Ski
Harris's talent came to the fore
When Peshawar Zalmai started batting, everyone was wondering about Hazratullah Zazai's attitude towards United's bowling but it was Mohammad Haris whose talent came to the fore and he batted confidently. Asif, who replaced Khan as captain, was forced to think twice.
Harris played strokes wherever he wanted. In the second over of the match, which was scored by Mohammad Musa, Harris scored 22 runs including one six and four fours.
This was the occasion after which United's bowling and fielding disintegrated. Harris completed his half-century off just 18 balls with five fours and four sixes.
Meanwhile, although Hazratullah Zazai was dismissed for 13 runs with the help of two fours, Harris continued his aggressive batting.
Young Yasir Khan, who was batting with him, got two chances, after which he too adapted to the style of his fellow batsmen and hit two sixes and a four in the first over of Afghanistan's left-arm sniper Zaheer Khan.
Both of them took the score from 73 to 113. At this stage, Islamabad United came to life when Waqas Maqsood managed to get the wicket of Mohammad Haris who faced only 32 balls and played a brilliant innings of 70 runs which included seven fours and five sixes.
Zaheer Khan ended the crucial 35-run innings with the help of Yasir Khan's two sixes and three fours but the rain of sixes did not stop.
Sharfin Rutherford hit two sixes in a row to Dawson while Shoaib Malik also broke the silence by hitting De Lange.
When Rutherford got out on the ball of Fahim Ashraf and left with Shoaib Malik, his replacement Living Stone also delivered the ball of Waqas Maqsood across the boundary.
Faheem Ashraf took important wickets of Living Stone and Shoaib Malik in his last over. Shoaib Malik was slowly moving towards a big score but the series came to a halt at 38 runs.
Waqas Maqsood also stopped the storm of runs and got his second wicket in his last over by dismissing Ben Cutting at zero. Captain Wahab Riaz's scoring account could not be opened.
Peshawar Zalmi's innings included 15 fours and 12 sixes, but in the last overs, the pace of scoring slowed down and the pace of wickets fell sharply.
90 runs were scored in the last ten overs while only 41 runs were scored in the last five overs.
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