Lahore Qalandars 200 for 7 (Shafique 45, Zaman 36, Billings 33, Curran 3-34) beat Islamabad United 90 (Gurbaz 23, Munro 18, Wiese 3-17, Raza 2-6, Rashid 2-8) by 110 runs
After a pulsating victory over Peshawar Zalmi the day prior to this, Qalandars continued the momentum at house. Until 24 hours prior, it was unclear whether or not this metropolis would be capable of host any extra PSL matches this yr, however now that it is confirmed they may, the defending champions seem injected with rather more ruthless sense of goal. Fakhar Zaman and Tahir Baig bought them off to a extra productive begin than yesterday, compiling 56 within the powerplay.
For the primary 4 overs, Qalandars had been challenged by a characteristically slapdash begin from Rahmanullah Gurbaz. Shaheen Shah Afridi started with a 14-run over – ten of these by way of wides – after which, Zaman Khan was walloped over cow nook for an enormous six within the fourth over.
Just because the chase seemed to be on monitor, Zaman dented United which led to a collapse. He dived to his left to dismiss Gurbaz within the final ball of the fourth over. Thereon, United imploded remarkably to lose their ten wickets for 49 with Qalandars overwhelming United with each the standard and amount of their wicket-taking bowlers.
Wiese broke the again of the road-up by taking three center-order wickets – Colin Munro, Shadab and Azam Khan – to kill the competition. In the interim, Haris Rauf outfoxed Rassie van der Dussen with a beautiful slower supply.
And they nonetheless had the small matter of Rashid to take care of. The Afghan was usually unplayable; his wily mixture of topspinners, flippers and googlies had been an excessive amount of for United. Raza would add the icing on the cake with three wickets, together with a run-out, in an over.
With Lahore formally confirmed because the hosts for the playoffs and ultimate, their grip on this trophy solely seems to be tightening.