Quetta Gladiators defeated Islamabad United by 3 wickets

In the eighth match of the ninth edition of the Pakistan Super League, Quetta Gladiators defeated Islamabad United by 3 wickets thanks to the excellent performance of the bowlers.

In the match played at Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore, Quetta Gladiators won the toss and invited Islamabad United to bat.

United’s openers gave their team a 29-run start in just three overs, but at that stage aggressive batsman Alex Hales became the wicket of Aqeel Hussain following scoring 21 off 9 balls.

At this stage, Agha Salman came to support Colin Munro and took the score to 69, but at this stage, Abrar sent Munro, who scored 20 runs, into the pavilion.

However, United suffered a major loss when Mohammad Hasnain ended the United captain’s innings for just 2 runs.

The United team was not even able to cope with the loss that Aqeel Hussain finished the work of Azam Khan while taking the second wicket.

Agha Salman was holding the other end and looked confident of another big innings but Abrar took the wicket of Agha who scored 33 runs off 23 balls to give his team their fifth win while Imad Wasim also managed just 9 runs. might

Jordan Cox played 19 runs and Faheem Ashraf played 20 runs and the Islamabad United team scored 138 runs for the loss of 9 wickets in the allotted overs.

On behalf of Quetta Gladiators, Muhammad Wasim Jr. and Abrar Ahmed took three wickets, while Aqeel Hussain took two wickets.

Gladiators started chasing the target as Jason Roy went on the offensive but Naseem Shah sent Saud Shakeel back to the pavilion on the first ball of the third over of the innings.

Khawaja Nafee, the hero of the previous match, might not play this big innings and scored only 9 runs and gave the wicket to Roma Rais.

English batsman Roy had scored 37 runs from 18 balls with the help of a six and 6 fours to bring the score to 51 when young Obaid Shah scattered his wickets.

Former Gladiators captain Sarfraz Ahmed failed once once more and was the wicket of Shadab Khan for just one run.

After losing 4 wickets for 54 runs, the match seemed to be going in United’s favor, but at this stage captain Riley Russo and Sherfin Rutherford batted responsibly to bring their team back into the match.

The two players continued to push towards the target as they put on a winning partnership of 62 runs for the fifth wicket, but Naseem Shah ended Rutherford’s innings with 29 off the last ball of his spell.

United then got the wickets of Aqeel Hussain and Muhammad Wasim Jr. but Riley Russo kept his nerves under control and guided his team to victory along with Muhammad Amir.

The Gladiators set a target of 139 runs with 10 balls to go to win the match by 3 wickets, with Russo playing a responsible innings of 34 runs.

Naseem Shah and Shadab Khan took two wickets each for United.

Riley Russo was adjudged Man of the Match for his responsible batting.