excellent improvisation but he can't beat the man at long-off. Walks across, takes this low full toss and looks to belt it over long-off, but turns out to be a simple catch. This is the first time Kings have beaten Gladiators in PSL's short history. Imad Wasim begins his PSL captaincy career with a convincing victory.
Kings vs Gladiators, 2nd Match at Dubai, Feb 23 2018 - Ball by Ball Commentary
Amir, Mills, Imad, Afridi - each of these bowlers kept coming at Quetta to make a 150 chase look like 180. If this is a sign of things to come, it will be quite a task to put up tall scores against this bowling unit. Smiles in the Karachi camp as Mickey Arthur, the national team head coach who is also in-charge of the franchise, hugs his boys and exchanges high-fives. The mood is slightly more sombre in the Quetta camp with Viv Richards offering words of consolation. So, not quite the thriller we expected but a fun contest nonetheless.
As well as they bowled, I'd pick Colin Ingram's 21-run 41 as the turning point. That gave them the impetus to post 149, and that made a huge difference in the end. Anything around 125 would've meant a different approach from Quetta.
Shahid Afridi on that super catch: These days, I try to hide myself on the field but Babar told me to field in the deep. It worked well (laughs). Fielding is an art, you have to enjoy it. If you don't, you will be found out. You have to be ready all the time. Karachi Kings is a well-balanced team.
WATCH - Afridi's stunning catch at the boundary (Available in India, UK, and USA only)
backs away and steers this full delivery to deep point
steps out and slaps this short ball up and over point, down to the boundary rider
backs away and drills this full delivery towards wide long-off
this one's squeezed into the gap between point and short third man. Superbly done
beaten by a yorker-length delivery outside off. Looked to back away and drill this through cover
as easy as they come as far as catches go. Rizwan backs away wanting to pull but Mills cramps him for room and this ill-advised pull turns into a slice to the keeper.
muscles this into the gap at deep midwicket, but the boundary rider comes around to cut that off
tries to fetch this short ball from outside off, beaten for pace.
slower delivery, this time he swings but the ball deflects off the pad away towards Irfan junior who fails to bend down in time to stop it on the first attempt at fine leg. Then, near the boundary cushion, his right leg may have been touching the hoarding as he eventually pulled it back in.
sees the batsman backing away and digs one in short and wide, beaten as he swings through
back of the hand slower delivery which Anwar Ali picks, drilled down but hit the stumps at the non-striker's end to take the pace off. Could've been a boundary otherwise. But that wasn't it. The ball deflected towards where Mills was on his followthrough and he tried to run-out the non-striker
driven firmly towards mid-off for a quick single
swing and a miss. Looked to cut but beaten by the slowness of this delivery
play and a miss. Looked to back away and go through the off side
thick outside edge and this races away to the third man boundary. Looked to flay this behind point
snakes back in a long way to tickle through to the keeper off an inside edge. Nawaz looked to make room and go over cover, but was late on the stroke. That could be the final nail in Quetta's coffin as far as this match is concerned. Nawaz started well but just couldn't bring out the big shots towards the end.
swings and misses. Looked to pull from way outside off, beaten for pace
swings and misses. This tails back in to hit the pad but would've slid down leg. They scamper a leg-bye. Oh, hoye, wait on, wait on. Karachi have reviewed. Nothing wrong with the legality of the delivery, but hawkeye suggests this would've missed leg stump. So the decision won't be overturned. Artificial excitement.
Kashif Malik: "Why the Afridi's catch is not available in Pakistan?" Because we don't have the rights to broadcast videos there.
excellent bouncer, surprises Nawaz with one angled in towards the body, he ducks under it
Over 20 • QG 130/9