Lahore Qalandars’ fifth loss in a row: ‘It’s okay to be a two-time champion’

Lahore Qalandars’ fifth loss in a row: ‘It’s okay to be a two-time champion’

Peshawar Zalmi beat Lahore Qalandars despite a century from van der Dusen thanks to Paul Walter’s fine bowling in the last over, their fifth straight defeat in the tournament.

At Gaddafi Stadium, the fans once again saw the result of the match in the last over where Lahore Qalandars once again failed to win despite coming very close.

Lahore Qalandars needed 18 runs in the last over to win this match and at the crease were van der Dusen, who scored the first century of PSL 9, and Jahan Dad, who batted aggressively.

These two batsmen had brought the score close by playing quite aggressively before this over, but Walter dashed the hopes of Lahore Qalandars. Paul Walter bowled very sensibly and didn’t bother the Qalandars batsmen to hit the big shots at all.

In this way, Lahore Qalandars could only score 203 runs for the loss of six wickets in response to 212 runs. On behalf of Lahore Qalandars, van der Dusen played an unbeaten innings of 104 runs which included six sixes and seven fours.

Speaking after the match, Shaheen Shah Afridi expressed his disappointment over the fifth consecutive defeat, saying that his team came very close to victory for the second time and failed.

However, Shaheen Afridi said, “Well, they are two-time champions, so it will be difficult.”

Earlier, Lahore Qalandars won the toss and decided to bowl first, then Peshawar Zalmi scored 212 runs to end the series of defeats to Lahore Qalandars thanks to the excellent opening partnership of Babar Azam and Saeem Ayub and later Roman Powell’s aggressive innings. Targeted.

Babar Azam and Saeem Ayub scored 136 runs in the first wicket partnership. Captain Babar Azam was dismissed for an individual score of 48, just two runs short of another half-century in this PSL.

It was a much needed innings for Saeem Ayub to return to form and he made the most of it given the pitch and scored the highest individual score so far in this PSL. Saeem Ayub was dismissed for 88 runs off 55 balls with the help of four sixes and eight fours. He was named the best player of the match.

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Coming in to bat at number three for Peshawar Zalmi in this match, Roman Powell did not wait at all to spin his bat and took advantage of the good start provided by Babar, Saim and batted aggressively from the first ball. Started

Powell played an innings of 46 runs off just 20 balls, which included two sixes and five fours.

The team of Lahore Qalandars, who had lost their first four matches, looked colorless and Shaheen Afridi looked helpless in this match as well.

Seven bowlers were tried by Lahore Qalandars in this match, but only two bowlers got success. One of them was Shaheen Afridi who took three wickets while Jehan Dad took one.


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2024-07-26 07:11:58

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