2024-03-17 07:42:52
Babar Azam’s team Peshawar Zalmi lost the qualifier match due to batting failure. Still there was a chance to go to the finals. If they win Eliminator-2, they will meet Multan Sultans again in the final.
Their batting was not bad in that match on Saturday night. Top order batsmen get runs. They scored 185 runs for 5 wickets. But the eye-catching batting of Imad Wasim and Haider Ali was not enough for Peshawar to win even this run. Islamabad won by losing 5 wickets in 19 overs thanks to Imad and Haider’s unbeaten innings of 98 runs.
But they lost the wickets of Alex Hales (1) in 6 runs, Agha Salman (5) in 20 runs, captain Shadab Khan (0) in 21 runs and Martin Guptill (34) in 50 runs. It seemed that Peshawar would win the match immediately.
From there, Imad and Azam Khan laid the foundation for the victory with a partnership of 41 runs. Peshawar’s bowlers could not shake Imad and Haider after Azam got out for 22 runs with 1 four and 1 six during the team’s 91 runs.
Imad remained unbeaten on 59 off 40 balls with 9 fours. And Haider played an unbeaten innings of 52 runs off just 29 balls with 2 fours and 5 sixes. However, Imad got the man of the match award.
Siam of Peshawar took 2 wickets with 34 runs in 3 overs. Luke Wood, Mehran Mumtaz and Khurram Shahzad took 1 wicket each.
Before that, Siam Ayub batted brilliantly in Peshawar’s innings. This opening batsman played an innings of 73 runs off 44 balls with 6 fours and 4 sixes. He scored 72 runs in the opening partnership with Babar. It seemed that their run would reach 200. But after Babar was dismissed for 25 with 2 fours and 1 six and Siam for 73, their run rate slowed down a bit.
After that, Mohammad Haris played an innings of 40 runs off 25 balls with 3 fours and 2 sixes to boost the team’s collection a bit. And in the end, Peshawar got a fighting collection of 185 runs thanks to the innings of Tom Kohl’s 18 and Amer Jamal’s 17 runs.
With the ball in hand, Nasim Shah of Islamabad took 3 wickets with 30 runs in 4 overs. Obed McCoy and Shadab Khan took 1 wicket each.