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11:52 P.M. Local Time, 12:22 A.M. IST - Right - that's all we have for you from the Pakistan Super League today. We will be back in the evening tomorrow with more of the same as Karachi Kings host Islamabad United at the National Stadium. Join us on Sportskeeda at around 7:30 P.M. IST (7:00 P.M. Local Time) for our coverage of the game, and keep a close eye on our website for a whole lot more in between! This is Rajarshi Das, signing off on behalf of Pradeep Somasekhar. Good night!
Babar Azam [Peshawar Zalmi captain]: We planned on playing a different combination, and it clicked. Lost a couple of wickets early on, but I feel the way Tom and Haris played and attacked, that helped in gaining momentum and we carried that along through to the end. All the youngsters are looking to prove themselves, the way Ali Raza bowled. His confidence was down in the previous game, but a positive sign is he's confident and believes in himself. He keeps saying he'll do it, and that's what you want from a player. He wants to learn and talk to the seniors about the game. Yaqoob has bowled outstandingly in our camp and practice sessions. We couldn't play him due to the combination, but we had belief in him for today, that he'll deliver breakthroughs. Game changes in the middle overs, their start was good but the wickets in the middle overs changed the game. I thought bowling a spinner in the powerplay will help given the grip their spinners got earlier. Went through with it, and got the wicket (Rizwan's).
Abdul Samad is the Player of the Match! Here's what he has to say: "Thanks to almighty! Expectations from me was there with the way I've been playing in the domestic, I played my natural game and it worked out. According to situation we needed to get past 200, it was on the slower side, both tried our best and it worked for us. Depending on the field set, we need to play accordingly."
Mohammad Rizwan [Multan Sultans captain]: "Toss is important, but happy to bowl first, they clicked as a unit and the partnerships helped them. We dropped catches, that was crucial and we cannot afford to do that, had to pay the price. We've not lost hope, we try our best, we will try to correct the mistakes. If you play well in any condition, the surface doesn't matter, we need to play good cricket."
11:30 P.M. Local Time, 12:00 A.M. IST - Match summary:
Peshawar Zalmi win by 120 runs
Tom Kohler-Cadmore 52 (3) | Ali Raza 4/21 (4) Usman Khan 44 (22) | David Willey 2/36 (4)
The Multan Sultans were always going to be up against it, required to score at a rate of around eleven and a half each over from the start of the innings. Mohammad Rizwan looked to lead the charge early on, but fell trying to slog the first ball of the fourth over from Saim Ayub. Usman Khan walked in and got in on the act straight away, clobbering a six and a boundary within his first four deliveries.
Usman was particularly severe on Alzarri Joseph in the final over of the powerplay, taking 15 out of the 16 off it. Shai Hope, at the other end, struggled to get going, unable to go for the big shots. He tried to do so against Arif Yaqoob in the seventh over, but holed out to Mitchell Owen at long on. After that, it was time for a 17-year-old to take centre-stage with ball in hand.
Ali Raza steamed in with plenty of heat, hitting the deck hard and getting the ball to skid through to the batters in no time. He went full to Ghulam once, was carted for a boundary, and then went back to hitting the deck. The rewards came along - Ghulam mistimed a pull to Joseph in the eighth over, Michael Bracewell popped a return catch trying to do the same at the start of the ninth over, and Ashton Turner was cleaned up next ball, leaving the Sultans tottering at 88 for 5 at the halfway mark.
The game seemed pretty much done and dusted when Arif Yaqoob induced a top-edge off Usman Khan and got him to hole out for 44 off 22 in the eleventh over. Iftikhar Ahmed followed three balls later as Ali Raza picked up his fourth of the night, and all that remained were the formalities. Zalmi wrapped things up with plenty of time to spare, ensuring a massive spike in their Net Run Rate. Presentations in a bit...
Akif Javed has been dismissed for 0 runs off 2 balls
15.5 Mitchell Owen to Akif Javed, OUT! SAMAD TAKES AN ABSOLUTE STUNNER TO SEAL THE GAME! ZALMI SCRIPT EMPHATIC TURNAROUND! Peshawar Zalmi register a resounding win, dismantling Multan Sultans with clinical precision, as Ali Raza orchestrates the triumph with a sublime four-wicket haul. They finally click as a unit, thrashing Multan Sultans to grab their first win of the season!
Short and just outside the off-stump. Javed went for the massive pull across the line, but skied it. Samad covers good ground, running in from the deep, but had to dive in the end and he clings on most importantly. Plenty to ponder for Multan Sultans!
15.4 Mitchell Owen to Akif Javed, full on the off-stump, Javed drilled it into the on-side and a good sliding stop from short mid-wicket to his left.
Akif Javed batting at 11th position
David Willey has been dismissed for 13 runs off 13 balls
15.3 Mitchell Owen to David Willey, OUT! WOOD TAKES A WELL JUDGED CATCH! Willey makes a slow walk back. On a length outside the off-stump, Willey too early into the shot and launches it into the throat of Wood who judged it well near the boundary ropes at long-off.
15.2 Mitchell Owen to Ubaid Shah, OH! That went miles up in the air, but falls between two fielders at deep mid-wicket. Slower one, Shah into the heave way too early and miscued it. Babar running back, and a fielder get around at deep mid-wicket, but none could get to it.
15.1 Mitchell Owen to David Willey, OH! Short delivery, well directed. Willey too early into the pull, toe ends it past square-leg for a single.
Mitchell Owen's New Bowling spell
Time-out. Surely, there'd not be much to talk about at this stage. Required rate's inching towards 25 with two wickets remaining. There might be a message to Willey and Ubaid on batting all 20 overs to reduce the blow to their Net Run Rate.
15
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105/8score
1
0
2
0
0
0
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Ubaid Shah*
2(8)
David Willey
12(11)
Alzarri Joseph
0/30
14.6 Alzarri Joseph to Ubaid Shah, clever change of pace, back of a length on fourth stump. Shah has a wild swing of the bat and misses.
14.5 Alzarri Joseph to Ubaid Shah, OH! Another sharp bumper by Joseph, Shah backs away, takes his eyes off for the pull and misses again.
14.4 Alzarri Joseph to Ubaid Shah, bangs in the short delivery, Shah went for the big pull and misses, through to the keeper.
14.3 Alzarri Joseph to Ubaid Shah, length on the stumps, just a push on the front foot by Shah and was racing away. Wood from mid-off gives the chase, slides near the ropes and stops it.
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Ubaid Shah
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Alzarri Joseph
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