DUBAI: Peshawar Zalmi beat Lahore Qalandars by 17 runs in their PSL encounter here at Dubai Cricket Stadium and qualified for the league’s play-off games, ARY News reported.
Qalandars started well in their chase of 167-run target given by Peshawar Zalmi but soon their wickets started to fall like a pack of cards and they were 38-0 at one time were sonn 39-6 with four ducks.
Fakhar Zaman, Umar Akmal, Rizwan and Elliott went without scoring a run.
3.4 OUT! Muhammad Hafeez to Umar Akmal Run Out (Brendon McCullum)
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Cameron Delport’s 32 off 15 balls, all-rounder Sunil Narine’s 21 runs and Sohail Tanvir’s 36 off 29 balls saved Lahore from a heavy defeat.
Zalmi’s Mohammad Hafeez and Shakib Al Hasan took 2 wickets each.
13.2 SIX! Shahid Afridi to Sohail Tanvir
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Earlier, Zalmi won the toss and elected to bat first. Zalmi scored 166 runs at the loss of six wickets, the side’s top scorers were Kamran Akmal and Shakib Al Hasan who scored 58 and 30 runs respectively.
LQ’s star spinner Yasir Shah took 2 wickets while Sohail Tanvir, Aamer Yamin and Sunil Narine took 1 wicket each.
Zalmi rise to the second place in points table after the victory and qualify for play-offs. Qalandars who have 6 points and were on second place till now are now on the fourth place.
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— PakistanSuperLeague (@thePSLt20) February 24, 2017
Lahore Qalandars XI: Brendon McCullum (capt), Cameron Delport, Fakhar Zaman, Umar Akmal, Mohammad Rizwan (wk), Grant Elliott, Sunil Narine, Sohail Tanvir, Aamer Yamin, Yasir Shah, Ghulam Mudassar
Peshawar Zalmi XI: Mohammad Hafeez, Tamim Iqbal, Kamran Akmal (wk), Marlon Samuels, Shakib Al Hasan, Sohaib Maqsood, Darren Sammy (capt), Shahid Afridi, Wahab Riaz, Hasan Ali, Mohammad Asghar
