With a final score of 16 runs, the Quetta Gladiators defeated Peshawar Zalmi in the PSL 9 Match 2 played at the Gaddafi Stadium. It was a tightly contested match.
Zalmi wanted to bat first after winning the toss. But in the first fifteen overs, a tremendous combination between Jason Roy and Saud Shakeel scored 157 runs, sweeping the Zalmi bowlers out of the game.
Saud Shakeel made his PSL debut with the Quetta Gladiators following a 33-match benching. With his initial fifty and 74 runs off of 47 balls, Shakeel was unstoppable. With four sixes and six fours scored, the inning came to a close for the left-hander. On the other hand, Roy was the inning’s anchor thanks to his steady batting and 75 runs off of 48 balls.
The Pakistani opener, who bats left-handed, managed to stay in the game early on due to Saim Ayub’s sloppy catch and the fact that the ball had touched the ground first, according to the DRS.
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Thanks to Gladiators skipper Rilee Rossouw and pinch hitter Sherfane Rutherford, the score reached an astounding 206-5 before the end of the first inningOne of Peshawar Zalmi’s bowlers, Salman Irshad, hails from Rawalakot and was named the game’s best bowler. Before the Gladiators could score more than 225, he bowled them out with a score of 3-38.
A miscommunication between Saim Ayub and PSL rookie Khwaja Naffay led to Khwaja running out Ayub, resulting in Ayub losing his wicket.
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The Zalmi skipper had a spectacular second inning, scoring 68 runs off of 42 balls, and Babar scored three thousand runs in his 78th PSL inning.
Suddenly, in the sixteenth over, the Gladiators’ enigmatic spinner turned the tables on the dangerous Babar Azam and the right-handed batter, Tom Kohler Cadmore. The surface was a huge help to spinners Akeal Hossein and Abrar Ahmed, who both got wickets.
The Quetta gladiators sealed the deal against their archrivals, Peshawar Zalmi, with the superb death-bowling antics of Muhammad Amir and Muhammad Wasim.
As a result of the man-of-the-match performance by Saud Shakeel, who struck his maiden fifty in the PSL, Quetta secured their opening two points of the ninth season.
The Multan Sultans and the Karachi Kings will meet in the third Pakistan Super League match at 7 o’clock tonight at the Multan Stadium.
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