that's all she wrote! Short ball on the stumps, goes to pull and top edges this behind the stumps. Billings jogs to his left along the ring at short fine leg and takes a simple catch.
Qalandars vs United, 26th Match at Rawalpindi, PSL 2023, Mar 09 2023 - Match Result
10.31 pm Lahore more than double up Islamabad tonight, winning by 119 runs. They've now won five straight over Islamabad after this dismantling. More importantly, Lahore are now in pole position at the top of the table with one match left to play. Meanwhile, not only have Islamabad lost but their net run rate took such a hammering tonight that Multan Sultans and Peshawar Zalmi are both in with a chance of overtaking Islamabad for second place on the table if their franchise can win their last two matches and Islamabad loses their final match, which is against Zalmi. Peshawar plays Multan tomorrow so that match is effectively an eliminator for who can still chase down Islamabad for second place.
Islamabad United captain Shadab Khan is speaking on field right now. Most of the interview is in Urdu but there's a snippet of English in there when asked about his team's performance where he shrugs and says, "Catches win matches." That's all that needed to be said in English to sum up why and where he lost this match. Fakhar Zaman dropped on 1 and 71 before making 115 in the end.
Maruf : "I know I'm late but just taking my chance to say fakhar Zaman beat IU by 8 runs "
Fakhar Zaman is named Player of the Match for his century.
That'll do it for today's live coverage. Come back tomorrow for a key showdown between Multan Sultans and Peshawar Zalmi. Until then, take care!
Strategic timeout called.
full on off, shuffles way outside his stumps to flick to deep fine leg for one.
winds up again to a fuller length ball on fifth stump before checking this back to the bowler.
full on the legs, whipped through wide long-on to the rope.
bouncer out of reach, wide called.
yorker on fifth stump, jammed out into the ground back to the bowler.
charges and slaps this length ball into the ground back to Wiese.
length ball tailing down leg, called a wide and Billings doesn't like it and asks for Shaheen to call for DRS. Whether for an edge or to erase the wide call. Big deflection off the pads to the keeper. Definitely no bat but clearly off the hip. Wide call is negated, but Qalandars lose their last review.
yorker on middle, jammed out to the off side for none.
Hamza: "Why isn't Azam Khan batting?" For those joining us late, he injured his left hand while keeping wicket in the field and has gone to the hospital for x-rays. He is unavailable to bat. So Islamabad are now down to their last wicket.
slower length ball on sixth stump, heaves this off the toe of the bat sailing to long-on for a simple catch at chest height 15 yards in from the rope.
Taha: "Zaman Khan was the one who set this innings up. Kept IU explosive top order batsmen in a shell and took out two of them"
full length ball on fifth stump, goes to heave and misses.
attempted yorker on middle, punched firmly back down the pitch and skids away for four past the diving effort of the long-on fielder.
Wajih Rizvi: "The LQ bowling attack is simply put Unfair to all other teams in PSL 8. "
full on the stumps, punched away for one.
good length ball flicked through midwicket for one.
4 for 21 in four overs on a pitch that had produced centuries in three consecutive innings. Take a bow Rashid Khan.
good length ball on sixth stump, toe-slapped back to Rashid for none.
big appeal for lbw on a full pitched delivery on middle. Did this hit pad first or bat first? The ball was driven to mid-on for one but Shaheen calls for the review thinking it skidding off the pads first before he jammed it out down the ground with the bat. Replays show the first noise was bat onto pad before bat onto ball. The ball never hits the pad. Review lost.
good length ball on off, goes back to flick into midwicket for one.
Leg slip joins slip now.
googly spins in on a good length from fifth stump, jammed out into midwicket for one.
good length ball outside off, goes to swat this and can't get it away.
Rashid Khan is my Man of the Match. There were only four wickets taken combined on this pitch yesterday and he's taken four in this spell.
bullseye! On a batting paradise, Rashid is reigning supreme tonight. Good length on middle zipped in much quicker and doesn't allow Asif to get anywhere near the pitch of the ball charging down the wicket. He flails at this hopelessly and misses as the ball cannons into middle stump 3/4 of the way up.
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Toss | Lahore Qalandars, elected to bat first |
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Season | 2022/23 |
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Match days | 09 March 2023 - night (20-over match) |
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Points | Lahore Qalandars 2, Islamabad United 0 |
Over 16 • IU 107/10