Lahore Qalandars v Peshawar Zalmi Match 15 Highlights
Lahore Qalandars vs. Peshawar Zalmi or Shaheen Afridi vs. Babar Azam? This match is fated to be an entertaining one. Too bad if you couldn’t watch it live. If you don’t know where to watch the matches live, don’t worry; click here to watch PSL 8 live matches. This article will give you the match highlights of THE MOST ENTERTAINING MATCH SO FAR IN PSL 8.
Can there be “highlights” of a match full of boundaries? Every single ball becomes the highlight, then. What a high-scoring match it was. Read this article to find out what happened on 26 February between Qalandars and Zalmis.
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Match details
| GADDAFI STADIUM LAHORE | |
| Date | Sunday, February 26, 2023 |
| Time | 7:00 PM |
| Match | Lahore Qalandars v Peshawar Zalmi |
| Umpires | Faisal Afridi |
| Richard Illingworth | |
| TV Umpire | Michael Gough |
| Reserve Umpire | Shozab Raza |
| Match Referee | Roshan Mahanama |
Toss
Qalandars won the toss and chose to bat first.
Playing 11
| LAHORE QALANDARS | PESHAWAR ZALMI |
| Mirza Baig | Mohammad Haris |
| Fakhar Zaman | Babar Azam |
| Abdullah Shafique | Saim Ayub |
| Sam Billings | Tom Kohler-Cadmore |
| David Wiese | Bhanuka Rajapaksa |
| Hussain Talat | Rovman Powell |
| Sikandar Raza | James Neesham |
| Rashid Khan | Wahab Riaz |
| Shaheen Shah Afridi | Saad Masood |
| Haris Rauf | Arshad Iqbal |
| Zaman Khan | Salman Irshad |
1st Innings
- The ball was moving and curving in every spot as Arshad Iqbal and Wahab Riaz moved it about, and the hitters had no idea what was happening.
- When Neesham came on in the fifth over, everything changed. The first ball was going for four, and the hits kept coming.
- Abdullah Shafique, making his first appearance this season, led the early pace, followed by Fakhar Zaman, who had been struggling. Their collaboration established a rhythm, and Fakhar increased his gear after achieving fifty.
- Unfortunately for Fakhar, to go out on 96, Billings, who had just come in to prepare for the game, took advantage of a non-review to add insult to injury for Peshawar.
- Lahore ripped away the bowling and fielding with a vengeance, scoring the 3rd highest total in PSL record.
| LAHORE QALANDARS 241-3 | |
| BATTING | BOWLING |
| Fakhar Zaman 96(45) | Wahab Riaz 2-45 |
| Abdullah Shafique 75(41) | Rovman Powell 1-37 |
| Sam Billings 47(23) | |
2nd Innings
- The visitors were always going to have a difficult time with 242. Haris and Babar were both dismissed by Afridi in the first three overs.
- But, Kohler-Cadmore and Ayub played quite well after that, with some eye-catching strokes. They provided their team with a sliver of hope midway through the innings.
- Nevertheless, Peshawar lost both of them shortly after they hit their fifties, barely 7 balls apart. This put them on the defensive, and the hitters that came in died under duress.
- Afridi was the standout with the ball for the hosts, taking 5 wickets.
| PESHAWAR ZALMI 201-9 | |
| BATTING | BOWLING |
| Tom KC 55(23) | Shaheen Afridi 5-40 |
| Saim Ayub 51(34) | Zaman Khan 2-28 |
| Bhanuka Rajapaksa 24(14) | Haris Rauf 1-38 |
Man of the match award
Fakhar Zaman is back with his lightning-fast runs. He scored 96 runs from 45 balls and EARNED himself a man of the match award.
