Pakistan Super League - 7 (PSL-7) 2022

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Pakistan Super League​

TEAM	M	W	L	PT	NRR
MS	10	9	1	18	1.253
LQ	10	6	4	12	0.765
PZ	10	6	4	12	-0.340
IU	10	4	6	8	-0.069
QG	10	4	6	8	-0.708
KK	10	1	9	2	-0.891

 

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Qualifier (N), Lahore, Feb 23 2022,

Multan Sultans
163/2

Lahore Qalandars
(7.1/20 ov, target 164).......................44/1

Qalandars need 120 runs in 77 balls.

Current RR: 6.13

• Required RR: 9.35
• Last 5 ov (RR): 28/1 (5.60)

Win Probability:
LQ 41.34% •
MS 58.66%

 

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Lahore Qalandars

(17.4/20 ov, target 164)124/8

Qalandars need 40 runs in 14 balls.

Current RR: 7.01

• Required RR: 17.14
• Last 5 ov (RR): 34/4 (6.80)

Win Probability:
LQ 2.25% •
MS 97.75%

 

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Lahore Qalandars


(20 overs, target 164).......................................135/9

Sultans won by 28 runs

 

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Multan Sultans won by 28 runs and qualified for the Final. They outplayed Qalandars only Fakhar Zaman shown some resistance but after him it was allover Dahani. He bowled superbly took 3 wickets and given away only 19 runs. Took the game away from Qalandars with his swing and pace.

 

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Congratulations Multan

I was supporting Multan despite the fact most of my family was supporting Lahore

I don't know why I always have more sympathy with smaller teams. For the first 6 seasons, I was supporting Quetta

 

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Rizwan, Rossouw fifties, Dahani three-for send Sultans into PSL 2022 final as Fakhar 63 in vain in qualifier​

Multan Sultans' 163 proved too much for Lahore Qalandars, who lost by 28 runs

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Shahnawaz Dahani celebrates a wicket PSL

Multan Sultans 163 for 2 (Rossouw 65*, Rizwan 53*) beat Lahore Qalandars 135 for 9 (Fakhar 63, Dahani 3-19, Willey 2-23) by 28 runs

Lahore Qalandars might have beaten them in the group stages, but Multan Sultans showed why they won the other nine, squeezing out a gritty 28-run win over the home side to book their place in their second successive final. An unbeaten 42-ball 65 from Rilee Rossouw on a pitch that proved especially tricky to bat on helped the Sultans post 163, which in hindsight was a better total than it appeared at the time. The bowlers picked up the mantle from thereon, a disciplined showing as a unit withstanding an onslaught from Fakhar Zaman that threatened to throw the Sultans at the mercy of Friday's eliminator. Once the in-form opener was trapped in front by David Willey for 63 off 45, the Qalandars middle and lower order crumbled, and the relentless defending champions closed the game out with comfort.

After the Qalandars won the toss and opted to field, Mohammad Rizwan carried his bat, though failed to find his rhythm all innings in a scratchy - albeit unbeaten - 51-ball 53. It might be the surface, but the Qalandars were especially parsimonious, with Hafeez allowing just 16 runs in his four overs, while Shaheen Afridi and Samit Patel kept things tight up top. The dangerous Shan Masood was trapped in front off Hafeez's first ball, and the surface, combined with a nervy abundance of caution from the defending champions saw them restrained for much of the innings.

The Sultans had been dealt a huge blow after Tim David was ruled out with a positive Covid test, and Aamer Azmat was promoted to No. 3 after the early dismissal. His intentions were clear straight away, taking a couple of boundaries off Shaheen Afridi's second over, taking control while Rizwan took his time to bed in. By the time he fell, looking to take on Samit Patel and finding himself out of his crease, he'd struck a crisp 22-ball 33, and the Sultans had a platform.

With Khushdil Shah and Johnson Charles waiting in the dugout, there was perhaps a case for Rizwan throwing caution to the wind, but the decisive moves were made by Rossouw down the other end. Even the South African didn't quite find his timing early on, managing 28 off his first 22, but pushed through the gears in the final six overs. A key 18th-over onslaught against Haris Rauf, where Rossouw smashed a four and six, brought up a 33-ball half-century, and that the Sultans plundered 83 off the last eight overs was almost solely down to the left-hander.



For the last two games on the trot, Qalandars had fallen short chasing what seemed like low totals, and they began extremely cautiously once more. Unlike those occasions, however, Fakhar didn't give his wicket away early, though on a pitch where bowlers were hard to get away, the rising asking rate remained a perennial concern. Asif Afridi cleaned Abdullah Shafique up and Kamran Ghulam felt chancing his luck on a risky single. Khushdil, who has been a revelation with the ball this season, then trapped Mohammad Hafeez for a three-ball duck the following over. By the halfway stage, the Qalandars had shuffled along to 59 for 3, with the asking rate already in double digits.

Fakhar's presence at the crease provided the most realistic source of hope to a near-capacity crowd at the Gaddafi Stadium, and in the 12th over against the wily old Imran Tahir, the left-hander made his move. Three successive sixes - the third a monstrous strike into the second tier - suddenly reminded the Sultans the game wasn't over, and from under a run-a-ball, Fakhar was all of a sudden bringing up a 37-ball 50.

But Sultans' varied slew of bowlers know what it takes to chip away, and chip away they did. Shahnawaz Dahani, who's purple patch last year has been replaced by occasional patches of form this time, struck Harry Brook in front of the stumps and removed the man who's scored one of this season's three PSL hundreds. But it was Willey who truly put the nail in the home side's coffin when he trapped Fakhar lbw. It was one of two key wickets in a three-over spell from the Englishman, and finally broke Qalandars' back.

What followed was a blur of Sultans' dominance as Shaheen Afridi's side collapsed in on themselves. They would lose six wickets for 26 runs as the lower order offered no resistance, with Dahani, who finished with three wickets, the pick of the bunch. Lahore may get another bite at the cherry, but the home side are now one game away from watching their dream of an elusive PSL title go up in smoke once again. The embers, this time, were lit by the irrepressible defending champions, who remain on fire, with every side clueless as to how to put it out.

 

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Eliminator 1 (N), Lahore, Feb 24 2022

Peshawar Zalmi
169/5

Islamabad United
(19/20 ov, target 170)160/4

United need 10 runs in 6 balls.

Current RR: 8.42
• Required RR: 10.00

• Last 5 ov (RR): 49/1 (9.80)


Win Probability:
IU 87.31% •
PZ 12.69%

 

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IU (19.3/20 overs)...................170/5

United won by 5 wickets (with 3 balls remaining)

 

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That is the end of the match. Islamabad United won by 5 wickets and will face Lahore Qalandars tomorrow in the 2nd Eliminator. What a game we had it turned around so many times but Islamabad United hold their nerves and crossed the line. Alex Hales was the start for United who scored 62 runs to help United to chase this target.

 

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Hales' 62 knocks out feisty Peshawar Zalmi​

Irshad's yorkers put Islamabad in trouble before Azam, Faheem and Dawson closed out the chase

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Alex Hales launches one over the top PSL

Islamabad United 170 for 5 (Hales 62, Azam 28, Irshad 3-31) beat Peshawar Zalmi 169 for 5 (K Akmal 58, Malik 55, Hasan 3-30) by five wickets

Islamabad United were bruised, battered, and depleted, but like their opener Alex Hales, they returned with a bang, securing a spot in the second Eliminator. In a humdinger of a contest where momentum swayed back and forth, United sneaked home with three balls to go, eliminating Peshawar Zalmi.

It was the returning Hales who spearheaded the win, punishing Zalmi dearly for reprieving him on multiple occasions, top-scoring with 62 off 49. Defending 170, Zalmi kept pegging United back with tight overs and occasional wickets, but the power-hitting depth of United won out in the end. Cameos from Azam Khan and Faheem Ashraf, followed by a six and a four from Liam Dawson off the only two balls he faced ensured United stayed alive in a pulsating contest.

United's inherent advantage lies in the number of players they have who can hit the ball a long way, and so even as the asking rate crept above 10, they always seemed to hold the slight edge. The patchiness of Zalmi's bowling didn't quite help, with brilliant deliveries and overs followed up by ordinary ones. Salman Irshad was sensational, particularly in the middle overs when two searing yorkers got rid of Hales and Asif Ali. Conversely, skipper Wahab Riaz endured a horror night, spanked for 52 in four crucial overs that allowed United to squeeze ever closer to their target.

With the outcome on a knife's edge until the last delivery, each side could reflect on key passages won and lost. For Zalmi, Mohammad Haris didn't find his timing early on, and threw his wicket away, and while Shoaib Malik and Kamran Akmal rebuilt, the run rate never quite had United worried.

Asif Ali is cleaned up by a slower yorker from Salman Irshad AFP/Getty Images


The returning Shadab Khan bowled a sensational first three overs, prising Akmal out just as he began to threaten. It wasn't until the final five overs that Zalmi properly pushed the pedal, realising perhaps that they were well off the pace. Twenty-one came off the final Shadab over and 62 off the final five as Malik brought up a half-century and Hussain Talat struck 28 off 15.

Zalmi might also look back on the chance to remove Hales for a duck off the fifth ball of the chase when Haris missed a colossal stumping chance off mystery spinner Ali Majid. The luckless Majid manufactured another opportunity against the Englishman in the third over, only for Khalid Usman at extra-cover to put it down. Zalmi were tempting fate, and slowly finding theirs was being taken out of their own hands.

Aside from that drop, Usman had a near-spotless day, his four-over spell the most economical of the game. Bowling out his quota in the first ten, he had United reined in, allowing just 17 runs and cleaning up opener Will Jacks. When Irshad removed Shadab Khan, the asking rate was creeping up to 10, though United's repository of power hitters meant it wasn't a huge problem just yet.

Irshad was spectacular through the middle, plugging some of the damage Hales and Azam Khan were inflicting on Wahab Riaz at the other end. But despite three crucial wickets, the presence of Azam and Faheem continued to signal danger for Zalmi, and when the bowlers missed their lengths, they were punished with huge sixes. That kept the game in a holding pattern of sorts right down to the final over, which began with United needing ten. Azam's dismissal off the first ball was followed, in true United fashion, by Dawson whacking his first two balls for ten.

As Wahab Riaz's dream ended, the veteran Pakistan bowler collapsed to his knees, unable to stem the tears. The contrast of emotions with a jubilant United side, somehow still alive in a tournament where fate was almost conspiring to kill them off, was both jarring and touching. It was a game full of flaws from both sides, but that almost made it perfect.

 

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