National T20 Cup; KP defeated Southern Punjab, Central Punjab defeated Balochistan

In the important match of the second stage of the National T20 Cup, the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) team defeated Southern Punjab by a huge margin of 73 runs thanks to the brilliant batting of Fakhar Zaman, while in the second match, Central Punjab easily defeated Balochistan. Defeated by 9 wickets.

In the match played at the Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium, Southern Punjab captain Shan Masood won the toss and once again decided to field first, which proved to be wrong.

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa captain Mohammad Rizwan was dismissed for 12 runs on a total score of 28 after which Fakhar Zaman continued his brilliant batting streak.

Fakhar Zaman and Muhammad Hafeez took the team’s score to 99 runs in the second wicket, during which Fakhar scored his half-century.

The other batsman dismissed from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa was Fakhar Zaman, who played an innings of 68 runs, while Muhammad Hafeez, who scored 17 runs, returned to the pavilion with just one run added.

Experienced batsman Shoaib Malik played an important role in setting up a big score for the team by scoring 33 not out for which he faced 28 balls and managed to hit only one boundary.

Iftikhar Ahmed scored 36 runs off 22 balls with the help of 4 sixes, after which Mossadegh Ahmed came in to bat and scored 33 runs off just 9 balls with the help of 3 fours and 3 sixes without getting out.

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa scored 205 runs for 4 wickets in the stipulated overs and gave the weak team of the tournament a big target.

Aamir Yameen and Mohammad Ilyas took 2 wickets each.

Chasing a big target, Southern Punjab team captain Shan Masood failed to perform and was dismissed for zero.

After a poor start, Zain Abbas and Zeeshan Ashraf supported the team and reached 21 runs, but Zeeshan got out after scoring 10 runs, but Sohaib Maqsood scored 17 runs to support Zain Abbas on the score of 61.

Khushdil Shah, who made the fastest century of the tournament, got out after scoring 2 runs, Southern Punjab suffered an irreparable loss and the team could not recover.

Zain Abbas scored 34 runs and Aamir Yameen was run out for a wicket by Muhammad Hafeez fielding while Wahab Riaz completed Hussain Talat’s 13-run innings.

When the Southern Punjab team was in dire straits, Mohammad Imran Jr. played aggressively and scored 48 runs with the help of 6 fours and 2 sixes, but could not complete his half-century by 2 runs.