Peshawar Zalmi handed a 185-run total for the loss of seven wickets in 20 overs courtesy of Shoaib Malik and Hussain Talat’s fifties and late hitting by Ben Cutting in a fiery 36-run knock in the crucial 22nd match of this year’s Pakistan Super League (PSL) against Quetta Gladiators at the Gaddafi Sta-dium in Lahore.
Zalmi skipper Wahab Riaz had won the toss and elected to bat first, but Quetta’s pacer Naseem Shah did the early damage with two wickets in one over of Hazratullah Zazai and Liam Livingstone to leave Zalmi at 2-6.
Shoaib Malik and Mohammad Haris forged a 52-run stand to hold the inning, while Malik showed his class and experience during the 58 run inning of 41 balls with eight fours. He also laid a good 73-run stand with Hussain Talat who also played well.
While in the late over, Cutting launched an on-slaught with four sixes and one four in a blistering 36 run inning off just 14 balls.
Naseem was brilliant with the bowl as he regis-tered figures of 4-27 in four overs, Shahzad, Iftik-har, and Mudassar took one scalp each.
Playing XI:
Quetta Gladiators: Jason Roy, Will Smeed, James Vince, Sarfaraz Ahmed (c), Iftikhar Ahmed, Umar Akmal, Noor Ahmad, Sohail Tanvir, Naseem Shah, Ghulam Mudassar, Khurram Shahzad.
Peshawar Zalmi: Hazratullah Zazai, Ben Cut-ting, Mohammad Haris, Liam Livingstone, Shoaib Malik, Hussain Talat, Sherfane Rutherford, Wahab Riaz (c), Salman Irshad, Usman Qadir, Mohammad Umar.—AFP
