Player of the Match
Player of the Match

10.36 pm If you thought what Islamabad United did yesterday was special chasing the second highest target in PSL history with a ball to spare, well... Jason Roy decided to not just raise but double down. The previous highest successful chase in PSL history was a target of 207. Gladiators chase down a target of 241 with a whopping 10 balls to spare. Only four wickets fall in the entire match, and just three of them go to bowlers.

Martin Guptill of Quetta Gladiators: "Unbelievable J Roy. Probably one of the best T20 innings I've ever seen. I'm speechless. The striking from start to finish was incredible. [On the pitch] I'm pretty happy to roll that one up and take it with me. Originally we were told we needed to win in 13.2 overs to have a decent chance to qualify for the playoffs. But to chase 240 with 10 balls to spare is pretty special. Hopefully we have a bit of momentum and can scrape through to qualify. Babar is a great player. He's not gonna hurt you with brutal hitting or anything like that but he takes the game away with classical cricket shots and it was good to watch."

Player of the Match is Jason Roy: "I just went out there and had some fun. I had to pretty much go hard from ball one chasing a big total but on that wicket and these boundaries, it was a hell of a lot of fun. You have to go after everyone. It was just one of those days and seemed to come off as well. Extremely happy with it and it was a long time coming. On pitches like this and these boundaries, all you have to do is play proper shots. None of the boundaries felt ungettable. So it was very tough for the bowlers out there. It's just a shame that we've not been where we want to be this tournament but today is definitely something to smile about. In T20, it's as good as I've ever played. Chasing that total is something that doesn't happen often so I'm going to cherish this."

That'll do it for today's coverage. Come back tomorrow for some more PSL action. Until then, take care!

18.2
6
Azmatullah Omarzai to Roy, SIX, full on the stumps, thumps this over mid-off and sails over the long-off rope to clinch the highest successful chase in PSL history... with 10 balls to spare!!!!!
18.2
1w
Azmatullah Omarzai to Roy, 1 wide, bouncer over fourth stump, left alone. Wide called on height.

Gladiators are the first PSL team to hit 39 boundaries in a PSL match. 30 fours and nine sixes. And there's still time to add to that.

18.1
1
Azmatullah Omarzai to Mohammad Hafeez, 1 run, length ball on the wide guideline, slaps this over backward point for one.

END OF OVER:
18 | 18 Runs | QG: 235/2 (6 runs required from 12 balls, RR: 13.05, RRR: 3.00)

  • Mohammad Hafeez40 (17b)
  • Jason Roy139 (62b)
  • Aamer Jamal4-0-56-0
  • Wahab Riaz4-0-56-1

Dr. Arbab : "Why the discussion is about Babar? Why bot about Wahab Riaz, Arshad Iqbal, and Aamer Jamal? "

17.6
1lb
Aamer Jamal to Mohammad Hafeez, 1 leg bye, yorker full on middle and leg, misses a flick and it comes off the pads into the leg side for a leg bye. Zalmi call for a review. If there was no bat on this, it looked pretty tight. He was hit in front of middle and leg. Was it clipping enough of leg stump? No. Missing leg stump tailing down the leg side.

Fuzzy: "All that talk about Babar and Roy and strike rates. But what needs highlighting is Peshawar's bowling lineup. They clearly don't have a bowling unit on par with other teams. Even their most senior player i.e. Wahab is getting smashed all round the ground."

17.5
6
Aamer Jamal to Mohammad Hafeez, SIX, length ball on sixth stump, swatted over Babar leaping in vain at long-off and barely clears him for six.
17.4
4
Aamer Jamal to Mohammad Hafeez, FOUR, full on the wide guideline, Hafeez shuffles across trying to scoop this over fine leg, bottom edge goes past off stump and the keeper to the fine leg rope. Not how he intended to get it there but the desired result is achieved in the end anyway.
17.3
1
Aamer Jamal to Roy, 1 run, length ball on seventh stump, slapped to the cover sweeper for one.
17.2
2
Aamer Jamal to Roy, 2 runs, full on middle, inside edges this off the pads into midwicket for two.

Aslan: "Whoever is critising Babar, please criticise Powell as well for his less than 200 strike rate in death overs. Sometimes you just need to applaud opponent's brillance and we have to remember Quetta had Naseem "

17.1
4
Aamer Jamal to Roy, FOUR, full and wide, slices this high over backward point and backspins away to the rope just wide of the cover sweeper. That's now Roy's highest ever T20 score.

END OF OVER:
17 | 16 Runs | QG: 217/2 (24 runs required from 18 balls, RR: 12.76, RRR: 8.00)

  • Mohammad Hafeez30 (14b)
  • Jason Roy132 (59b)
  • Wahab Riaz4-0-56-1
  • Arshad Iqbal3-0-55-0

nabeel: "well whatever type of pitch it is 240 should be defended by your bowling as you cannot expect more than that from your batters so if PZ looses today it will be a shameful defeat and their bowlers will be their culprit not babar."

16.6
0
Wahab Riaz to Mohammad Hafeez, no run, length ball on fifth stump, goes to drive and misses.
16.5
1
Wahab Riaz to Roy, 1 run, leg stump yorker flicked out through midwicket for one.
16.5
1w
Wahab Riaz to Roy, 1 wide, slower bouncer over the stumps, left alone and wide called on height.
16.4
2
Wahab Riaz to Roy, 2 runs, length ball on the legs, flicked to deep fine leg for two.
16.3
4
Wahab Riaz to Roy, FOUR, Roy matches Hafeez with a hat-trick of fours of his own! Full and wide, slices this square through backward point to the rope. Roy has now put up the highest ever score in PSL history beating Colin Ingram's 127 from a few years ago, 2019 to be precise.

Aafaq Khan: "This is what happens when everyone thinks their opinion is valid. Babar scored a century (!) with a very healthy strike rate, a feat few can accomplish. Just because Roy has eclipsed that innings, does not mean Babar's innings wasn't magnificent in its own right. How about we just appreciate cricketing greatness?"

16.2
4
Wahab Riaz to Roy, FOUR, full on middle, wristy flick whipping this over backward square leg to the rope.

Vinay: "Once Australian players dominated the world cricket by their ruthlessness, now English players are dominating with same ruthlessness."

16.1
4
Wahab Riaz to Roy, FOUR, full angled into off stump, Roy pulverizes this flat over midwicket to the rope.

Wahab back around the stumps.

END OF OVER:
16 | 20 Runs | QG: 201/2 (40 runs required from 24 balls, RR: 12.56, RRR: 10.00)

  • Mohammad Hafeez30 (13b)
  • Jason Roy117 (54b)
  • Arshad Iqbal3-0-55-0
  • Aamer Jamal3-0-39-0

Ahad: "Babar took a few deliveries to knock it around in his 90s which Simon Doull even pointed out on air. Wonder if that might be difference for his team between a win or a loss today." Indeed, he crawled through the 90s playing for the century and it might cost Zalmi in the end result.

15.6
4
Arshad Iqbal to Mohammad Hafeez, FOUR, full and wide, squirts out this wide yorker with an open face behind point and beats deep third man to the rope.

Gladiators 2nd innings Partnerships

WktRunsPlayers
1st41MJ GuptillJJ Roy
2nd109JJ RoyWCF Smeed
3rd93Mohammad HafeezJJ Roy

Pakistan Super League

TeamMWLPTNRR
LQ1073140.915
MS1064120.5
IU106412-0.708
PZ105510-0.452
KK103760.756
QG10376-1.066