Peshawar Zalmi vs Quetta Gladiators PSL 2024 – Match 2 Highlights

On 18 February 2024, Peshawar Zalmis and Quetta Gladiators will play the 2nd match against each other at the Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore. This will be their first encounter in this season of HBL PSL. Well, officially, that is.

Let’s see how this match plays out. Keep in mind that we are constantly updating this blog as new developments occur. We will update you after toss, 1st and 2nd innings

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Match 2 details

GADDAFI STADIUM LAHORE
Date	18 February 2024
Time	3:30 pm
Match	Peshawar Zalmi v Quetta Gladiators
Umpires	Michael Gough
	Tariq Rasheed
TV Umpire	Aleem Dar
Reserve Umpire	Shozab Raza
Match Referee	Muhammad Javed

Squads

Peshawar Zalmi	Quetta Gladiators
Saim Ayub	Jason Roy
Babar Azam	Saud Shakeel
Mohammad Haris	Khawaja Mohammad Nafay
Tom Kohler-Cadmore	Rilee Russouw
Rovman Powell	Sarfaraz Ahmed
Asif Ali	Sherfane Rutherford
Dan Mousley	Akeal Hossain
Aamer Jamal	Mohammad Wasim
Salman Irshad	Mohammad Hasnain
Luke Wood	Mohammad Amir
Mohammad Zeeshan	Abrar Ahmad

Toss

Peshawar Zalmi won the toss and chose to bowl first.

First Innings – Highlights

Quetta Gladiators 206-5
BATTING	BOWLING
Jason Roy 75 (48)	Salman Irshad 3-38
Saud Shakeel 74 (47)	Mohammad Zeeshan 1-38
Sherfane Rutherford 20 (13)	Luke Wood 1-39
TARGET	207

• Both Quetta openers, Jason Roy and Saud Shakeel, got going fast, scoring 70 runs in the opening six overs.
• What a terrific powerplay it was, with the openers dominating all bowlers. Even when the powerplay was over, Roy and Shakeel continued to trade in limits, quickly reaching their fifties.
• Shakeel was knocked in the 16th over after Babar Azam made a great catch at mid-on, racing across from mid-off, and Jason Roy was dismissed in the 18th over after a fantastic catch by Saim Ayub at deep mid-wicket.
• The hitters that came afterwards played roles as Quetta finished with 206. Irshad was the standout of the bowlers, taking three wickets.

Second innings – Gladiators are back

Peshawar Zalmi 1902-6
BATTING	BOWLING
Babar Azam 68 (42)	Abrar Ahmed 2-29
Saim Ayub 42 (26)	Mohammad Amir 1-29
Rovman Powell 17 (9)	Akeal Hosein 1-38
RESULT	Gladiators won by 16 runs

• Quetta Gladiators start their season with a victory.
• Peshawar Zalmi’s openers got the team off to a great start.
• PZ, like their opponents, scored 70/0 from the powerplay.
• A run-out while attempting to run off a misfield led to Ayub’s defeat, and the Zalmi lost momentum.
• Babar Azam scored a fifty in 29 balls, but the Quetta bowlers slowed the pace in the second part of the game.
• Abrar Ahmed claimed a pair of wickets in his penultimate over. Amir and Mohammad Wasim used yorkers to control the Zalmis

Man of the match

Saud Shakeel as won the man of the match award. This is a great comeback from him. Saud has the chance to redeem himself and show his critics that he can bat in the shorter format of the game as well.