A manic night ends with Karachi Kings no longer at the bottom of the table, and they deserve the promotion after a hard-fought win. Lahore Qalandars take their place at the bottom. It has ensured the PSL is still very much competitive with all teams grinding it out. Here's hoping we have more such crackers as the week rolls by. That's it from us for now. We hope you enjoyed our coverage of this contest; I certainly enjoyed bringing it to you. Do join us tomorrow when Lahore try to get out of the bottom of the table when they take on Islamabad United. Until then, it's goodbye. Thank you for joining us.
Jibran: "Came around a stat that Usama Mir was 1 year old when Afridi made his international debut and today he bowled the last over to seal the win by taking Afridis' wicket. Well done lad"
Mube: "Afridi made his debut when he was 19 years old and he astonished the world with his fastest century and today an eighteen years old boy astonished the Afridi with his master class and the common thing between these two is both are leggie. Hats off Usama Mir"
Furqan: "No sleep for usama mir tonight.. day of his life, well done boy..!"
Kumar Sangakkara: Bringing the legspinner was the only choice I had, but the young legspinner as outstanding. He got turn and bounce. It was a good start but we probably slowed down too much between the seventh and tenth overs with me and Babar getting out. But outstanding innings by Shoaib Malik. I think Chris took one on his chest and one at short fine leg which proved crucial for us. All around, outstanding effort. A guy like that (Gayle) is always a knock away; we are trying to give him the best possible chance to score and hopefully he will fire for us.
Darren Sammy: Peshawar Zalmi keep on providing exciting matches, but we keep losing matches. I think they scored 10 runs too many from the position we got them in. Exciting match but disappointed to end up on the losing side. You always try to take the game as deep as possible. We had the belief till the last over that it could be done. T20 is all about momentum, the legspinner did it for them today. For us it's about more guys putting their hands up. We're not out of the competition, we have two games coming up and well regroup and try to come back stronger.
Malik: I think we were 110-something, but obviously against a good batting side, you need 170-plus on a good pitch. I knew I had to take my chances and I was successful. I am a batsman who needs a bit of time. Once I started seeing the ball well, I started hitting it well as well. Sanga and Babar set the tone well. I enjoyed th six against Wahab, we all know what he is capable of. Does not mean I am criticising him, he is a very good friend of mine.
Shoaib Malik is the Man of the Match for his half-century and one wicket.
What a finish and what a match! It keeps getting better with each night. Has been a weekend of some kind in the 2017 PSL. Tremendous fightback from Peshawar and it was Darren Sammy and Shahid Afridi, two batsmen who had looked out of sorts throughout the competition that came to the fore. And how they would have liked their team to cross the line. But it wasn't to be. And full marks to Usama Mir, the 21-year old legspinner. His captain took a gamble by throwing him the ball for the last over with a rampaging Afridi going beserk. But the young man was unafraid to toss the ball up to the veteran and he was rewarded with the wicket that sealed the fate of the game. Sammy has copped some flak with his place in the side being questioned. But he stepped up at a crunch situation, although his dismissal started the momentum shift.
hadi: "SAvsNZ, SLvsAUS, now this one. What a day for cricket lovers."
Muhammad junaid: "Stop it PSL !!!!! That was my last nail :( I am out of nails right now "
Mube: "Osama Mir ... Remember the Nameee !!!"
Shekhar: "Yesterday KP today Afridi , when will Gayle" Well, he may have disappointed with the bat. But he took the catch that sealed the match