Observers in splits after Shahnawaz Dahani misses a schoolboy run-out chance in PSL;
Waqar Younis is in shock
Shahnawaz Dahani, who has ample time to collect the ball and induce a run- eschewal makes a total mess of it during the PSL tie between Lahore Qalandars and Multan Sultan,Observers.
The eighth edition of the Pakistan Super League began on an emphatic note as Lahore Qalandars defeated Multan Sultans in a last-ball suspenser at the Multan Cricket Stadium. Chasing 176 to win, Multan looked set to ail Lahore’s title defense in the event nature with set batters Mohammad Rizwan and David Miller looking certain to knock off 49 demanded off the last five overs but Shaheen Afridi and Haris Rauf had other plans as they dismissed both the set batters and soaked in pressure brilliantly to win the contest by 1 run.
While there was a deficit of entertainment in the match, one particular over sailed by Shahnawaz Dahani to Sikandar Raza was filled with adrenaline-pumping action. When the Qalandars were fur, Dahani, brushing his third over and the 17th of the innings endured a citable over, where he missed an easy gate-taking occasion and also got tonked by Raza for 17 runs.
Lahore had taken their score to 130/4 after 16 overs when Dahani had the chance to give his platoon a fifth gate, but it all went upwardly. Raza tapped the first ball of the over down the pitch but his mate Hussain Talat charged down the gate. He was further than half down when he realized that Raza hasn’t moved, and turned back. Dahani meanwhile, Observers,who has ample time to collect the ball and induce a run- eschewal makes a total mess of it. He picked the ball and after deciding to throw the ball from many yards, misses the wholes. There was enough time for Dahani to run towards the wholes and dislodge them but rather, he chose to throw them and paid the price.
PSL 8 Lahore Qalandars beat Multan Sultans in last- ball suspenser(Observers)
implausible bowling in the death by Lahore Qalandars ’ pacesetters demonstrated off their title defense with a sensational one-run win over Multan Sultans in the opening match of the HBL Pakistan Super League 8.
Multan Sultans, playing in front of the home crowd at the Multan Cricket Stadium, demanded 49 off the last five overs, and with set batters, Mohammad Rizwan and David Miller at the crease sounded on course to a comfortable win.
But, in an outstanding spell of death bowling, Shaheen Shah Afridi gave only 16 runs in two overs( 16th and 18th) and sailed Rizwan with a slower one. Haris Rauf was equally brilliant, giving only four runs in the 17th and removing Miller with a pitch-perfect yorker at the launch of the 19th.
Endured T20 batter Kieron Pollard, who Multan Sultans had picked in the relief draft, smashed Haris for a six and a four towards the end of the penultimate over that added 14 runs for his side and left only 15 to be chased in the last over.
Shaheen trusted Zaman Khan, who had sailed incredibly well in the last season to defend 12 off the last over against Islamabad United, and the right-arm fast bowler delivered.
In what turned out to be a dramatic last over, Pollard was run out, running for the alternate, on the alternate ball, the third ball, a full toss, swiped onto Usman Khan’s pad right in front of sums, Observers,Usama Mir was run out on the fourth, Khushdil Shah knocked the alternate last ball for a four to bring down the equation to six off one but failed to connect the last ball that contended down for four rather.
This was Multan Sultans ’ first master at home – they had won all three matches also in 2020 – and that came from a side who were playing their first-ever match at this venue.
The first match of the PSL 8 was played in Multan
This was Multan Sultans ’ first master at home – they had won all three matches also in 2020 – and that came from a side who were playing their first-ever match at this venue.
Multan Sultans had a solid launch to the run chase of 176 with Shan Masood( 35 off 31) and Rizwan, whose 75 off 50, comprising eight fours and a six, was the top score in the match, putting a 100-run cooperation. Shan was caught off Hussain Talat on the 12.2 overs mark and that was the only gate to fall beforeRizwan’sdismissal.
After Multan Sultans had accumulated 53 runs in the Powerplay, Lahore Qalandars did well to dry up the flux of boundaries when Miller, who scored 24 off 20, struck David Wiese for four on the alternate ball of the 14th over; it ended a 28- ball-long boundary failure.
Lahore Qalandars were given a solid launch by the opening brace of Fakhar Zaman, who came the only alternate batter in the HBL PSL to cross the, 000- run mark,Observers, and debutant Mirza Tahir Baig after Rizwan, the Multan Sultans captain, decided to address after winning the toss. The brace added 61 runs before Tahir fell to Akael Hosein after scoring 32 off 26.
It sounded like Fakhar, who scored the utmost runs in the HBL PSL 7, had picked up from where he left his form in the Lahore Qalandars colors as he continued to score at a brisk pace and brought up his 17th partial century of the event in 32 balls. He added 58 runs with Shai Hope, who scored 19 off 17.
Player of the match Fakhar went on to hit five sixes and three fours in his 42-ball 66 before he came to the alternate gate to fall in tandem when he drilled out to deep square leg off Usama Mir on the first ball of the 16th over. This was leg- incitement Usama’s alternate gate after he would transfer back to Hope before the innings. On the former delivery, leader Ihsanullah had dismissed Kamran Ghulam, who could make only three off six balls.
Hussain played a gem in the lower middle-order, smashing 20 off 12 and Sikander Raza, Qalandars ’ Zimbabwean import, made 19 not out of 14. Hussain was dismissed in the penultimate over by Ihsanullah.
Shahnawaz Dahani picked up his solitary gate on the last ball of the innings when he struck David Wiese’s pad in front of sums.
