Lahore played 2 matches in their home ground and lost both of the matches and this time they lost in Rawalpindi stadium this time Lewis Gregory shuts all the doors for them and became a nightmare for Qalandars.
Qalandar’s hold a very poor record as they remained at the bottom in all the previous editions of HBL PSL while on the other hand Peshawar Zalmi is a strong team, two times runner up and champions of 2017 HBL PSL adding to this Peshawar lost just one match against Lahore from total nine fixtures.
Because of the weather conditions in the Rawalpindi, a match is reduced to 12 overs and both teams played a short match of 12 overs.
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Match Summary
Lahore won the toss and elected to bowl first.
Batton gave a great start to Zalmi by hitting sixes but Kamran Akmal didn’t score well and got out at the score of 14 off 9 balls and Peshawar lost their first wicket at 32 courtesy Shaheen Afridi.
David Wiese strikes and took Batton’s wicket at 34 off 14 and Fakhar caught Haider Ali Smashed sixes and played brilliantly with a great strike rate. At the score of 90 Peshawar lost 2 wickets David Wiese took the catch of Livingstone on his own ball.
Dilbar Hussain’s 2 wickets in an over lead a brilliant comeback from Qalandar, on his first delivery took the wicket of Haider Ali and then sent Mohsin back to Pavilions.
The Dilbar strikes again and at the score of 115 clean bowled Gregory and Peshawar at that stage In the last 30 balls lost 4 wickets and scored 36 runs. On the second last ball of the innings, Fakhar dropped the catch of Peshawar’s skipper Darren Sammy but on the very next ball, shaheen took one of the best catch of HBL PSL.
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Zalmi set the target of 132/6 in 12 overs.
Dilbar with the best bowling figure, 4 wickets in 3 over and gave 24 runs but couldn’t help Qalandars to win the match.
Australian left-hander gave a blistering start to Lahore Qalandar by three straight boundaries in four balls. Lewis Gregory strikes and sent set batsman Chris Lynn to pavilion at the score of 30 off 15 balls. Professor Hafiz scored a single run and he too sent back to pavilion by Gregory.
Sumit Patel was the player who revived Lahore’s hopes by spanking six and five fours and was not out but unfortunately, there was no other player who helped him increase to achieve the set target of 134.
Only Sumit Patel and Chris Lynn crossed the figure of 30, Patel 34 off 15 and Lynn 30 off 15 and Fakhar Zaman scores 22 off 19.
Gregory trashed Qalandar’s batting line by taking wickets of all great batsmen like Chris Lynn, Muhammad Hafeez, Fakhar Zaman, and Sohail Akhrat.
Lahore failed to achieve the target of 133 and ended at 116/6 in 12 overs
Player of the Match
Lewis Gregory was declared as player of the Match who helped his team by taking 4 wickets of all great batsmen’s for only 25 runs.
Fan’s Reaction after Lahore’s consecutive defeat
Lahore Qalandar’s team, management, and coach Aqib Javad faced backlash after consecutive defeats of Lahore Qalandar.
Rana sb . PLEASE REMOVE HEAD COACH . #LahoreQalandars pic.twitter.com/VAWRi7zi0z
— Shahbaz Allauddin (@Muhamma29385400) February 23, 2020
The majority of the people think the only reason for Lahore’s defeat is its management also in the post-conference of the match Fakhar was not happy and in the answer to most of the questions, he said please ask management as they decide everything.
Which also exposed what’s their dressing room’s situation. Adding to that Lahore is the franchise which is a second most expensive franchise and the whole year they conduct talent hunt programs and still failed to impress their fans and continued their defeat streak.
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Lahore really needs to do something for their fans as people are very much disappointed with their performance.
