Player of the Match
Player of the Match

That's it from us from the first of the two PSL matches today. But don't forget to catch the action live as the Multan Sultans face the Peshawar Zalmi soon. It was a wonderful game of cricket first up, and on behalf of Sreshth and Ranjith, it's me Himanshu signing off. Good night, and take care.

Shadab Khan, the winning captain: "We never thought that we shouldn't have batted first after we were 20 for 5. Cricket is a funny game, and we saw the comeback we made today."

Asif Ali, as should have been, is the Player of the Match: "Conditions were difficult and we were under pressure. We wanted to bat deep, and that's what I told my partner [Ifthikar] too."

And Sampath from the stats team has this nugget: Just the seventh time in T20 history that a team has won despite their top five batters collectively scoring less than 20 runs. Only the Mumbai Indians and the Islamabad United have done it in franchise leagues.

Baig : "Excellent come back by IU and excellent ball by ball commentary.... " --- Our pleasure, Baig.

fatima: "unbelievable! take a bows united , take a bow captain!! for making this impossible to possible. What a turnaround!!"

Here's Sohail Akhtar after the loss: "Credit to their bowlers Shadab and Fawad. We need to take responsibility for such matches. We conceded 15-20 extra runs, and then the middle order didn't click for us. We played well, but have got a blow now. Nothing can be worse, and we hope we can only get better."

8.50pm What a sensational comeback by Islamabad United here. They were 20 for 5 with the bat, and posted 152. Then the Qalandars were 86 for 2, and they crumbled to 124 courtesy of the United bowlers. Huge credit to Asif and Ifthikar, and then Musa, Fawad and Shadab to pull it United's way.

18.2
W
Ali Khan to Haris Rauf, OUT, taken on the jump at long-on, and that's game over. A brilliant catch on the edge of the boundary in a tense situation. That was a full delivery on off, which Haris saw as a golden opportunity to swing for six, but he doesn't get it off the middle. And after those crucial runs, Ifthikar leaps on the fence to finish off the game for his side

Haris Rauf c Iftikhar Ahmed b Ali Khan 17 (11b 0x4 2x6) SR: 154.54

18.1
1lb
Ali Khan to Ahmed Daniyal, 1 leg bye, fuller and on the pads while angling away, he misses the flick. But the batters can sneak in a single. Half an appeal for lbw from the bowler, but that was way down leg

30 needed from 12. Fancy a late drama, anyone?

END OF OVER:
18 | 14 Runs | LQ: 123/9 (30 runs required from 12 balls, RR: 6.83, RRR: 15.00)

  • Ahmed Daniyal6 (8b)
  • Haris Rauf17 (10b)
  • Mohammad Wasim3-0-38-0
  • Fawad Ahmed4-0-27-2
17.6
1
Mohammad Wasim to Ahmed Daniyal, 1 run, yorker length on off, and almost a Dhoni-like helicopter there from the batter. Just that the ball only lobs off his pad straight back but far enough for a single

Shadab has a word with Wasim now

17.5
1
Mohammad Wasim to Haris Rauf, 1 run, slower ball on off, and on a full length. Goes for the heave again, but can only get that mistimed to long-on
17.4
6
Mohammad Wasim to Haris Rauf, SIX, and rammed back over the bowler's head this time. Fuller ball on off, Haris is deep in his crease and gets that right off the screws to dispatch for another six
17.3
6
Mohammad Wasim to Haris Rauf, SIX, sliced away over extra cover. Some late entertainment here, as Wasim goes full and wider outside off and Haris swings his bat to send that all the way
17.2
0
Mohammad Wasim to Haris Rauf, no run, fuller on off, and a slower ball. Haris swings his bat, but is beaten by the slowness of the delivery
17.1
0
Mohammad Wasim to Haris Rauf, no run, short ball first up and just outside off. The batter goes for the upper cut, but misses

Wasim is back

Haris afridi: "Man of the match himanshu" --- I'll take that.

END OF OVER:
17 | 5 Runs | LQ: 109/9 (44 runs required from 18 balls, RR: 6.41, RRR: 14.66)

  • Haris Rauf4 (5b)
  • Ahmed Daniyal5 (7b)
  • Fawad Ahmed4-0-27-2
  • Shadab Khan4-0-14-2
16.6
1
Fawad Ahmed to Haris Rauf, 1 run, goes for the slog, and the ball lands on the bounce to long-on. Fawad went on a good length on middle, and the balls seemed to turn into the batter as he played that heave
16.5
1
Fawad Ahmed to Ahmed Daniyal, 1 run, full on off, and drilled down to long-off
16.4
3
Fawad Ahmed to Haris Rauf, 3 runs, goes for the heave, but that's edged to third man. That was flighted wide of off, and the batter's edge means Asif Ali has to give the chase
16.3
0
Fawad Ahmed to Haris Rauf, no run, down the track to this full ball on middle and off, comes off the inside half of the bat to short midwicket though
16.2
0
Fawad Ahmed to Haris Rauf, no run, flighted ball and full on middle, turning into the batter, who goes for the sweep but that hits his back pad

Qalandars 2nd innings Partnerships

WktRunsPlayers
1st55Fakhar ZamanSohail Akhtar
2nd3Fakhar ZamanZeeshan Ashraf
3rd28Mohammad HafeezFakhar Zaman
4th2BR DunkFakhar Zaman
5th5Fakhar ZamanTH David
6th4Rashid KhanTH David
7th2JP FaulknerRashid Khan
8th1JP FaulknerShaheen Shah Afridi
9th0JP FaulknerAhmed Daniyal
10th24Haris RaufAhmed Daniyal

Pakistan Super League

TeamMWLPTNRR
IU1082160.859
MS1055101.05
PZ1055100.586
KK105510-0.115
LQ105510-0.589
QG10284-1.786