PSL 6: Karachi Kings defeated Lahore Qalandars by seven runs in Pakistan Super League

 

PSL 6: Karachi Kings defeated Lahore Qalandars by seven runs in Pakistan Super League

In the 27th match of Pakistan Super League, Karachi Kings defeated Lahore Qalandars by seven runs.

In this match played in Abu Dhabi, Karachi Kings won the toss and elected to bat first and scored 176 runs for the loss of five wickets in the stipulated 20 overs.

Chasing a target of 177, Lahore Qalandars scored 169 for seven in 20 overs.

Qalandars' Sohail Akhtar (21 off 14 balls) was bowled by Muhammad Ilyas while Fakhr Zaman (19) was bowled by Emad Wasim.

Agha Salman was run out for just one run while Ben Dunk was run out for six off Noor Ahmed.

Mohammad Hafeez scored 36 off 36 balls with the help of three fours and a six and was caught by Noor Ahmed. Lahore Qalandars' Tim David scored 34 off 14 balls and was bowled by Abbas Afridi.

Qalandars' seventh out was James Faulkner, who struck 33 off 18 balls with three sixes and a four off Muhammad Ilyas.

Noor Ahmed of Lahore Qalandars was declared man of the match for taking 19 runs and two wickets in four overs.

On the other hand, Shaheen Shah Afridi was the first to take the wicket of Sharjeel Khan from Lahore Qalandars who managed to score only 13 runs off 10 balls.

Babar Azam of Karachi Kings scored 54 runs while Rashid Khan and Martin Guppel scored 43 runs and got out on the ball of Ahmed Daniel.

Najibullah Zadan got out on the ball of Mohammad Hafeez without scoring a run while Chaduk Walton scored 10 runs and got out at the hands of Mohad Rashid.

Emad Wasim remained unbeaten on 30 while Danish Aziz remained unbeaten on 16.

For this match, two changes were made in the team of Karachi Kings and Waqas Maqsood and Amir Yameen were replaced by Danish Aziz and Muhammad Ilyas while Agha Salman was included in the team of Lahore Qalandars.