PSL 9: Zalmi stun Qalandars in nerve-wracking clash

 Lahore Qalandars experience fifth consecutive loss during progressing uber occasion

LAHORE: Peshawar Zalmi Sunday whipped Lahore Qalandars by 8 runs at the Gaddafi Arena during the continuous Pakistan Super Association (PSL) season nine.

Qalandars' Rassie van der Dussen crushed the main 100 years of the PSL season nine yet giving his side the principal win of the tournament was sufficiently not.

The South African stayed unbeaten on 105 off 52 balls in a pursuit of 212. This was Lahore's fifth consecutive loss of the time while Zalmi enrolled consecutive wins.

Van der Dussen played like a solitary fighter all through the pursuit with little commitments from different hitters. Shai Trust made 29 while Ahsan Bhatti contributed with 20.

Jahandad Khan (13) attempted to hand help to Van der Dussen yet Paul Walter made the assignment troublesome in the last overs.

Van der Dussen's innings included seven fours and five sixes. He batted with a strike-pace of 200.

Pacer Naveen-ul-Haq took two wickets while Walter, Luke Wood and Salman Irshad picked one each.

Prior in the wake of being placed into bat first by Shaheen Afridi, Zalmi's batting setup overwhelmed the exhausted Qalandars' bowling assault and amassed a significant complete on the scoreboard, because of a delayed opening organization.

Zalmi's openers, Babar Azam and Ayub, entered the fight forcefully against the home side, collecting 136 runs for the principal wicket in a simple 14.2 overs.

Ayub assumed an overwhelming part in the initial organization, with Azam reliably turning the strike. Sadly, the captain's mooring innings closed in frustration, succumbing to Qalandars' commander Shaheen Shah Afridi in the fifteenth over, only two runs short of a merited 50 years.

Azam's innings contained 48 runs off 36 conveyances, including five limits. In this manner, Ayub banded together with the hard-hitting batsman Rovman Powell, supporting the force.

The pair quickly added 39 runs in 16 conveyances before Afridi excused Ayub in the eighteenth over. Ayub arose as the top-scorer for Zalmi, accumulating 88 runs off 55 balls, highlighting eight limits and four sixes.

After Ayub's takeoff, Powell took command of Zalmi's batting effort, adding to the complete with a fast thump that closed on the penultimate conveyance of the innings. Powell's forceful innings included five limits and two sixes, coming full circle in a 20-ball 46.

Powell tracked down help from wicketkeeper-batsman Mohammad Haris in the last option stages, who stayed unbeaten with 12 runs off only five conveyances.

Afridi initiated the Qalandars' bowling assault, guaranteeing 3/33, while Jahandad Khan got one wicket.