RAWALPINDI, Pakistan (AP) — Two-time defending champion Lahore Qalandars lastly recorded their first win this season the Pakistan Super League as they beat Islamabad United by 17 runs on Wednesday.
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Earlier, quick bowler Hasan Ali grabbed 4-15 as Karachi Kings stored alive their hopes of a playoff spot with a thumping seven-wicket win over Quetta Gladiators.
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Lahore had misplaced six straight video games earlier than getting one level from a rain-abandoned match in opposition to Peshawar Zalmi final Saturday.
Data-driven Islamabad, which prefers to chase, was bowled out for 145 with quick bowler Zaman Khan claiming 4-37 and Lahore fielders making some sensible catches within the outfield.
Rassie van der Dussen (64) had earlier anchored Lahore to 162-7 along with his fourth rating of 50-plus this season earlier than he was as a consequence of return again dwelling and can miss Lahore’s final two league video games.
Jahandad Khan made a spectacular one-handed working catch at mid-off to dismiss Alex Hales for zero within the first over of Shaheen Shah Afridi (2-32) and the batting power-house of Islamabad collapsed to 73-7 in opposition to tempo halfway by means of their run-chase.
Faheem Ashraf hit an unbeaten 41 whereas Azam Khan (29) and Naseem Shah (27) additionally performed little cameos to slender down the defeat earlier than Zaman wrapped up the sport and had No. 11 Rumman Raees trapped leg earlier than wicket with a yorker within the penultimate over.
David Wiese, who sustained a groin damage within the first sport, returned to the Lahore fold and upped the ante within the dying overs with a brisk unbeaten 24 off 11 balls as skipper Shadab Khan used seven bowlers and solely off-spinner Salman Ali Agha was not among the many wickets.
Islamabad has seven factors from eight video games whereas Lahore have three with two video games in hand.
Karachi quick bowler Hasan intelligently different his tempo to bowl out Quetta for this season’s lowest whole of 118 in 19.1 overs after captain Shan Masood received the toss and elected to area.
Karachi cruised to 121-3 with greater than 4 overs to spare with opening batter Tim Seifert (49) notching the highest rating of the sport.
Quetta are nonetheless among the many high two with 9 factors, whereas Karachi are at No. 5 with six factors.
Blessing Muzarabani (2-27) gave Karachi an early breakthrough when Jason Roy (15) top-edged the tall Zimbabwean quick bowler to Hasan at third man within the third over.
Hasan then struck twice in his first over when Saud Shakeel (33) and Khawaja Nafay (17) holed out within the deep as Quetta slipped to 68-3 within the ninth over.
Former Quetta captain Sarfaraz Ahmed’s struggling season continued as he was run out for 7 in a mix-up with new skipper Rilee Rossouw whereas going for a good single. Sarfaraz, who was relieved of the captaincy after Quetta did not get past the league stage within the final 4 seasons, had scored solely 22 runs in 5 innings.
Rossouw additionally couldn’t speed up in opposition to tempo and spin within the center overs earlier than holing out in leg-spinner Zahid Mahmood’s (2-25) return spell. Hasan then disguised the decrease order along with his change of tempo and claimed two extra wickets in his final over.
Masood’s run of poor kind continued in his first season because the Karachi skipper edged Mohammad Amir within the second over when on 7.
But Karachi’s abroad signings Seifert and James Vince (27) performed confidently in opposition to tempo and had been hardly troubled by thriller spinner Usman Tariq. Quetta was additionally wasteful within the area with Sherfane Rutherford and Amir dropping sitters within the outfield.
Seifert smashed six fours and two sixes earlier than he missed out on the half-century and was stumped, however veteran Shoaib Malik carried Karachi to a convincing victory with an unbeaten 27 off 20 balls.
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