the short balls continue, Smith's pulls continue and it's smacked to the midwicket boundary for a four which are the winning runs! Also brings up Smith's fifty
Kings vs United, 2nd Qualifying Final at Dubai, Feb 20 2016 - Ball by Ball Commentary
RESULT
2nd Qualifying Final (N), Dubai (DICS), February 20, 2016, Pakistan Super League
111/9
(14.2/20 ov, T:112) 115/1
United won by 9 wickets (with 34 balls remaining)
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Sami is the Man of the Match: I only want to get better with my performances. I'm not trying anything extra, just sticking to the basics and getting good help from the team management. My passion is still strong. Terrific win for us and we'd want to carry the momentum forward.
Bopara: Clearly not enough runs on the board and that's been the feature of our team through the tournament. Not much the bowlers can do then and adds a lot of pressure to the middle order. We haven't put our performances together. You have to play straight as much as possible on such pitches and then go cross-batted later on. Unfortunately we played a lot of cross-batted shots but that's T20 for you.
Misbah: Right on the money from the start and the bowlers did the job. It was ideal scenario for us to chase it down with dew coming into play in the second innings. In such pressure games you need wicket-taking bowlers and they bowled well, allowed me to keep aggressive fields. I think we are peaking at the right time and everything is right on track.
10.57pm A comprehensive win for Islamabad United and the credit goes to their bowlers for that, for restricting Karachi Kings to only 111 for 9. They made the work for their batsmen so much easier. Smith, Sharjeel and Haddin came all guns blazing for the target and two of them got fifties too. But it was Mohammad Sami's spell of 4-0-8-5 that had dismantled Karachi earlier. Karachi are hence knocked out and Islamabad United will play Peshawar Zalmi tomorrow in a kind of a semi-final.
Haddin: We had been building up for a result like this and brilliant performance by our bowlers. Sami has been brilliant throughout the tournament and it's a just reward for all the work he's done. We want to get better with what we did tonight.
14.2
4
Sohail Khan to Smith, FOUR runs
14.1
1
Sohail Khan to Haddin, 1 run
opens up his stance, pulls a short ball and it goes high but falls well short of long-on
end of over 147 runs
IU: 110/1CRR: 7.85 • RRR: 0.33
Dwayne Smith46 (47b 6x4 1x6)
Brad Haddin51 (28b 4x4 3x6)
Mir Hamza 2-0-11-0
Sohail Khan 3-0-20-1
13.6
•
Mir Hamza to Smith, no run
comes down the track and miscues a pull back to the bowler
13.5
•
Mir Hamza to Smith, no run
another bouncer to Smith, he hooks and misses
13.4
1
Mir Hamza to Haddin, 1 run
pretty full outside off with room, guides it to third man
13.3
1
Mir Hamza to Smith, 1 run
angling away a bit, Smith jabs and gets an inside edge to fine leg for one
Over the wicket now
13.2
4
Mir Hamza to Smith, FOUR runs
he had been pulling for a while and missing. This time he gets on top of it and smacks it wide of deep midwicket for a powerful four
13.1
1
Mir Hamza to Haddin, 1 run
short of length and angling in from round the wicket, he defends to off and takes off for a quick single. Hamza has a shy at the non-striker's end but he misses and that's Haddin's fifty
end of over 134 runs
IU: 103/1CRR: 7.92 • RRR: 1.28
Dwayne Smith41 (43b 5x4 1x6)
Brad Haddin49 (26b 4x4 3x6)
Sohail Khan 3-0-20-1
Mir Hamza 1-0-4-0
12.6
•
Sohail Khan to Smith, no run
another short ball, he pulls and gets an inside edge onto his helmet. No danger, smiles from the batsman and bowler
12.5
•
Sohail Khan to Smith, no run
bangs in the bouncer for Smith and he ducks under it
12.4
2lb
Sohail Khan to Smith, 2 leg byes
slow offcutter towards the leg side, deflects off the pad pretty fine on the leg side
12.3
•
Sohail Khan to Smith, no run
bangs in the bouncer, Smith looks to pull but the ball chases him and he gets into an awkward position before getting hit on the helmet. Not a good sight so the bowler apologises
12.2
1
Sohail Khan to Haddin, 1 run
very slow delivery cutting in from just outside off and he defends with soft hands on off for one
12.1
1
Sohail Khan to Smith, 1 run
makes room to whack the ball, gets a bottom edge of the short ball and it goes back to the bowler
end of over 125 runs
IU: 99/1CRR: 8.25 • RRR: 1.62
Brad Haddin48 (25b 4x4 3x6)
Dwayne Smith40 (38b 5x4 1x6)
Mir Hamza 1-0-4-0
Usama Mir 2-0-20-0
11.6
•
Mir Hamza to Haddin, no run
goes for a slog to the leg side, heaves and misses as the ball angles away
11.5
1
Mir Hamza to Smith, 1 run
bit of room for Smith too, cuts it to third man for one
11.4
1
Mir Hamza to Haddin, 1 run
back of length outside off, cut off the back foot to third man
11.3
2
Mir Hamza to Haddin, 2 runs
short ball angling into the batsman, worked away to long leg and they come back for the second
11.2
1lb
Mir Hamza to Smith, 1 leg bye
towards the hips from short of length and it is deflected to short fine leg
11.1
•
Mir Hamza to Smith, no run
outside off and it's helped to third man for one
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