Pakistan Super League 2024: Peshawar Zalmi vs Multan Sultans Match Preview, Pakistan Super League 2024

9th T20 • Multan Cricket Stadium • Multan

Peshawar Zalmi

179/8 (20)

Multan Sultans

174 (20)

PZ won by 5 runs

Info

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Scorecard

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Playing XI

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Date & Time

23 Feb, 07:30 PM IST

Venue

Multan Cricket Stadium

Match

9th T20,

Pakistan Super League 2024

Points Table

Schedule

Stats

Umpires

Chris Gaffaney (New Zealand), Faisal Afridi (Pakistan), Ruchira Palliyaguruge (Sri Lanka, TV)

Referee

Ali Naqvi (Pakistan)

Toss

Peshawar Zalmi elected to bat

Pitch Report

PitchFast & Bounce

Pace BowlingPace & Bounce

Batting ConditionAverage

Spin BowlingAverage

1st Innings

164Avg Runs

7Avg Wkts

137.41Avg SR

2nd Innings

151Avg Runs

6Avg Wkts

136.69Avg SR

Playing XILineups Out

Points Table

Head To Head (Last 10 Matches)

8- 2

Team Form (Recent 5 Matches, Latest First)

Multan Sultans

Peshawar Zalmi

Players to Watch

Top Batters

Reeza Hendricks

MS . BAT

146 Runs

3 Matches

Babar Azam

PZ . BAT

140 Runs

2 Matches

Mohammad Rizwan

MS . WK

136 Runs

3 Matches

Top Bowlers

Mohammad Ali

MS . BOWL

8 Wkts

3 Matches

Abbas Afridi

MS . BOWL

6 Wkts

3 Matches

Usama Mir

MS . BOWL

4 Wkts

3 Matches

Player of the Match Luke Wood

2/13

Info

Peshawar Zalmi

179/8 (20)

Batters

Saim Ayub

63.64

c R Hendricks b Shahnawaz Dahani

Babar Azam

(C)

119.23

b U Mir

Haseebullah Khan

205.56

b U Mir

Mohammad Haris

100.00

c U Mir b M Ali

Paul Walter

200.00

c Y Khan b D Willey

Rovman Powell

209.09

c I Ahmed b D Willey

Asif Ali

130.00

lbw b M Ali

Luke Wood

141.67

Not out

Naveen ul Haq

150.00

c & b MA Afridi

Arif Yaqoob

100.00

Not out

Extras

(B: 0, LB: 1, NB: 0, W: 8)

TOTAL

(20 Ov, RR: 8.95)

179/8

Did not Bat

Salman Irshad

Bowlers

EXT

7.00

5.75

8.67

12.00

9.00

17.00

Fall Of Wickets

SCORE

OVER

Saim Ayub

c R Hendricks b Shahnawaz Dahani

1-26

3.5

Babar Azam

b U Mir

2-72

8.3

Haseebullah Khan

b U Mir

3-85

10.1

Paul Walter

c Y Khan b D Willey

4-114

12.5

Mohammad Haris

c U Mir b M Ali

5-128

14.3

Rovman Powell

c I Ahmed b D Willey

6-150

16.4

Asif Ali

lbw b M Ali

7-159

18.2

Naveen ul Haq

c & b MA Afridi

8-166

19.2

Multan Sultans

174/10 (20)

Batters

Yasir Khan

116.22

c M Haris b S Irshad

Mohammad Rizwan

(C)

0.00

c M Haris b L Wood

Reeza Hendricks

103.70

b S Irshad

Dawid Malan

208.00

c (sub D Mousley) b PI Walter

Khushdil Shah

100.00

c S Ayub b A Yaqoob

Iftikhar Ahmed

200.00

c M Haris b N Haq

Usama Mir

400.00

c PI Walter b A Yaqoob

David Willey

0.00

c (sub D Mousley) b A Yaqoob

Abbas Afridi

183.33

c S Ayub b L Wood

Mohammad Ali *

25.00

Not out

Shahnawaz Dahani

0.00

b N Haq

Extras

(B: 0, LB: 0, NB: 0, W: 6)

TOTAL

(20 Ov, RR: 8.7)

174/10

Bowlers

EXT

Luke Wood

3.25

Naveen ul Haq

11.00

Paul Walter

8.75

Arif Yaqoob

10.75

Salman Irshad

9.75

Fall Of Wickets

SCORE

OVER

Mohammad Rizwan

c M Haris b L Wood

1-7

2.3

Yasir Khan

c M Haris b S Irshad

2-52

8.2

Dawid Malan

c (sub D Mousley) b PI Walter

3-122

14.3

Reeza Hendricks

b S Irshad

4-129

15.5

Khushdil Shah

c S Ayub b A Yaqoob

5-132

16.2

Usama Mir

c PI Walter b A Yaqoob

6-144

16.5

David Willey

c (sub D Mousley) b A Yaqoob

7-144

16.6

Abbas Afridi

c S Ayub b L Wood

8-156

18.1

Iftikhar Ahmed

c M Haris b N Haq

9-174

19.5

Shahnawaz Dahani

b N Haq

10-174

19.6

Match Info

Date & Time

23 Feb, 07:30 PM IST

Venue

Multan Cricket Stadium

Match

9th T20,

Pakistan Super League 2024

Points Table

Schedule

Stats

Umpires

Chris Gaffaney (New Zealand), Faisal Afridi (Pakistan), Ruchira Palliyaguruge (Sri Lanka, TV)

Referee

Ali Naqvi (Pakistan)

Toss

Peshawar Zalmi elected to bat

6 W W

Over 1

Runs: 6

1 4 4 0 2 1

Over 18

Runs: 12

W 0 1 1 0 0

Over 19

Runs: 2

0 1wd 4 1wd 4 6 W W

Over 20

Runs: 16

All Overs

Player of the Match Luke Wood

2/13

Commentary

Geez! What a thriller that was! An absolute humdinger of a match that could have gone anywhere till the last ball. In the end, Peshawar Zalmi come out on top winning their first game of the season. It's been a pleasure bringing you this match. It's time to bid you goodbye. This is me - Darpan Tikiya - signing of on the behalf of my co-commentator Arya Sekhar Chakraborty. Stay tuned to Sportskeeda for more sporting action!

Babar Azam (Peshwar Zalmi captain): After losing first two matches, it was important to win this. And it's an outstanding win. We wanted to get to 180 and we got there. Haseebullah Khan played really well. The bowlers executed their plans really well. If we had held on to the catches we would have won by a bigger margin. We changed the combination and hoped that it suits our team and it worked.

Luke Wood (Player of the Match): I just tried to follow what I follow in every game. Try to bowl at the stumps and being consistent and it paid off. I was expecting there to be more bounce on this surface. But it was different. It was rather a little slow and skiddy.

Umar Gul (Peshawar Zalmi bowling coach): I think it was an important win for us. A great boost up for us and I hope we will continue the momentum. Yeah I think today we gave the plans to the bowlers to use the bigger side. In the end, you can say the game was very close but winning is what matters in the end. To be honest, I was supporting my game. When Abbas is not playing against us I always support him.

Mohammad Rizwan (Multan Sultans captain): See, we always keep learning. The whole of Pakistan have enjoyed this game. I think the death over execution wasn't quite there today. When the score went there we couldn't have done anything about that. We backed ourselves to chase it down. This could be our forward plan as well. We keep our batting order floating depending on the situation of the match.

Peshawar Zalmi win by 5 runs.

Haseebullah Khan 37 (18) | Arif Yaqoob 3/43
Dawid Malan 52 (25) | Mohammad Ali 2/23

What a rollercoaster ride was that! Zalmi started off really well with the ball picking up the priced scalp of Rizwan early. Yasir Khan and Reeza Hendricks both got themselves in but never looked like taking the game away from Peshawar.

It was Dawid Malan who changed the course of the chase with his 25-ball-52. And then came the eventful over no. 17 bowled by Arif Yaqoob. It had 3 wickets, 2 sixes and a controversial catch. That one over had more action than a typical Rohit Shetty movie. In the end, it came down to 16 runs off 4 balls.

Iftikhar Ahmed smashed a six and a four to get the hopes of Multan Sultans up high. But he got out on the penultimate ball and Naveen Ul Haq wrapped it up by shattering Shahnawaz Dahani's stumps off the last ball. With that Peshwar Zalmi pick up their first win of the season.

overs

174 /10 score

1wd

runs

Shahnawaz Dahani *

0 (1)

Mohammad Ali

1 (4)

Naveen ul Haq

2 /44

19.6 Naveen-ul-Haq to Shahnawaz Dahani, WICKET! Dahani has been cleaned up here and the Peshawar Zalmi wins their first game of the competition by 5 runs. On a good-length around the off-stump channel, Dahani clears his front leg and goes for an almighty swing across the line, gets beaten and the ball rattles onto the off-stump.

Shahnawaz Dahani b Naveen-ul-Haq 0 (1b, 0x4, 0x6)

Shahnawaz Dahani, RHB, comes in

19.5 Naveen-ul-Haq to Iftikhar Ahmed, WICKET! This could be a wicket here. There was a clear sound when the ball was next to the bat. A pace-off good-length delivery outside off, Iftikhar goes for an almighty swing across the line, the umpire nods his head. The review has been taken and replays clearly show there was a big spike when the ball was next to the bat. Still 6 required and Shahnawaz Dahani needs to hit a six here.

Iftikhar Ahmed c Mohammad Haris b Naveen-ul-Haq 16 (8b, 2x4, 1x6)

IFTIKHAR YOU BEAUTY!!!! STRAIGHT OVER THE TOP OF THE UMPIRE'S HEAD!!! 6 to win off 2 now!

19.4 Naveen-ul-Haq to Iftikhar Ahmed, SIX! That has been smoked down the ground for a maximum. That was right in the slot from Naveen, around the middle stump, Iftikhar holds his shape and swings through the line, sends it many a mile over the long-on fence. Just 6 required off the last 2 deliveries now.

THE FIRST TIME HE BOWLED WITHIN THE STUMPS THIS OVER AND IFTIKHAR JUST SWIPES IT AWAY! 12 OFF 3 REQUIRED

19.3 Naveen-ul-Haq to Iftikhar Ahmed, FOUR! Iftikhar gets inside the line of that length delivery around the pads and helps it away well over the short fine leg fielder. This is easy pickings for Iftikhar.

DOWN TO 16 OFF 4. STILL ANYONE'S GAME.

19.3 Naveen-ul-Haq to Iftikhar Ahmed, pace-on full-length delivery well wide outside off, called a wide.

OH DEAR OH DEAR!! THAT'S A SCHOOLBOY ERROR FROM LUKE WOOD WHO HAS BEEN SO GOOD TONIGHT.

19.2 Naveen-ul-Haq to Iftikhar Ahmed, FOUR! Sloppy work in the deep by Luke Wood. Execution of bowling was perfect but no so in the field. Drillss this full one a shade outside off towards the deep extra cover fielder, was struck straiht to the fielder who makes a meal of that.

That was a really close call! Also remember, third man and fine leg are up in the circle. So an edge flies for a boundary.

19.2 Naveen-ul-Haq to Iftikhar Ahmed, that was a pace-on yorker-length delivery well outside off, Iftikhar moved across off a bit, Iftikhar goes flashing at that but doesn't make any contact. Called a wide.

19.1 Naveen-ul-Haq to Iftikhar Ahmed. that was a very slow delivery from Naveen. Short of a length outside off and that took eternity to arrive. He goes flashing at that but doesn't make any contact.