Karachi Kings Vs Peshawar Zalmi 2nd Match 14 February 2023

2nd T20 • National Stadium • Karachi

Peshawar Zalmi

199/5 (20)

Karachi Kings

197/5 (20)

PZ won by 2 runs

Info

Fantasy

Live

Scorecard

Playing XI

Player of the Match Tom Kohler-Cadmore

92(50)

Info

Peshawar Zalmi

199/5 (20)

Batters

Mohammad Haris

200.00

lbw b M Hamza

Babar Azam

147.83

c A Tye b MI Tahir

Saim Ayub

100.00

runout (M Hamza)

Tom Kohler-Cadmore

184.00

c MI Tahir b B Cutting

Bhanuka Rajapaksa

100.00

c B Cutting b A Tye

Jimmy Neesham

145.45

Not out

Shakib Al Hasan

100.00

Not out

Extras

(B: 0, LB: 1, NB: 0, W: 4)

TOTAL

(20 Ov, RR: 9.95)

199/5

Did not Bat

Wahab Riaz, Sufiyan Muqeem, Salman Irshad, Khurram Shehzad-l

Bowlers

EXT

10.50

6.50

14.00

8.00

10.00

9.67

Fall Of Wickets

SCORE

OVER

Mohammad Haris

lbw b M Hamza

1-15

1.2

Saim Ayub

runout (M Hamza)

2-16

1.4

Babar Azam

c A Tye b MI Tahir

3-155

15.1

Bhanuka Rajapaksa

c B Cutting b A Tye

4-171

17.1

Tom Kohler-Cadmore

c MI Tahir b B Cutting

5-197

19.4

Karachi Kings

197/5 (20)

Batters

Matthew Wade

153.33

c TK Cadmore b J Neesham

Sharjeel Khan

0.00

c M Haris b W Riaz

Haider Ali

120.00

c S Ayub b S Irshad

Qasim Akram

70.00

c TK Cadmore b J Neesham

Shoaib Malik

152.94

c M Haris b W Riaz

Imad Wasim

170.21

Not out

Ben Cutting *

112.50

Not out

Extras

(B: 1, LB: 1, NB: 5, W: 7)

TOTAL

(20 Ov, RR: 9.85)

197/5

Did not Bat

Mohammad Amir, Imran Tahir, Andrew Tye, Mir Hamza

Bowlers

EXT

8.50

11.75

6.50

10.67

10.50

Sufiyan Muqeem

14.00

Fall Of Wickets

SCORE

OVER

Sharjeel Khan

c M Haris b W Riaz

1-1

0.2

Matthew Wade

c TK Cadmore b J Neesham

2-34

3.1

Qasim Akram

c TK Cadmore b J Neesham

3-44

5.2

Haider Ali

c S Ayub b S Irshad

4-46

6.1

Shoaib Malik

c M Haris b W Riaz

5-177

18.2

Match Info

Date & Time

14 Feb, 08:30 PM IST

Venue

National Stadium, Karachi

Match

2nd T20,

Pakistan Super League

Umpires

Ahsan Raza (Pakistan), Alex Wharf (England), Ruchira Palliyaguruge (Sri Lanka, TV)

Referee

Ali Naqvi (Pakistan)

Toss

Karachi Kings elected to bowl

Player of the Match Tom Kohler-Cadmore

92(50)

Commentary

That brings us to the end of our coverage of the PSL for today. We will be back tomorrow evening with more of the same - The Quetta Gladiators play their first game of the tournament against the Multan Sultans! Join us at 7:30 for coverage of the same. This is Rajarshi, signing off on behalf of myself and Pratyush. Good night!

Babar Azam, Peshawar Zalmi captain: It was very important to win the first match with the new franchise. We wanted to start on a good note. The batting was great. The credit goes to the bowlers too, for the way they bowled in the powerplay and held their nerve at the end with the dew. We wanted to stick to our plans with every bowler. Khurram was brilliant up front but even at the end with the wet ball. Whenever I play, I try to give my best. The way we planned the innings, Tom was executing the big shots and I was just trying to get him on strike. You have to improve in all areas at all times, can't be focusing on one. We could have scored a few more runs. We also have to make sure we don't bowl so many no balls.

Imad Wasim, Karachi Kings captain: We bowled really well. TKC and Babar did really well. The thing was that 200 was chasable, but we didn't start well, lost too many wickets upfront, that was the key. It was a very good pitch, credit to the groundsman, it was a great wicket. We thought it was going to stay low, but it was absolutely perfect. Because the wicket was so good, we tried to play cricketing shots. We could have won the game had Shoaib bhai stayed with me till the end. It's the first game of the tournament for us, we'll take lot of positives. Happy with the bowling, you go out of the park on these kind of wickets. but the batters need to get in and back themselves to score runs, big runs.

Tom Kohler-Cadmore, Player of the Match: It's a very nice pitch to have, nearly 400 runs were scored on this wicket today. You can't take too many balls to settle in on here and need to try and put up a big score on the board. If you constantly play cricket, hit balls, it keeps your momentum, for me it's nice to be able to contribute tonight and for us to get over the line. (On his partnership with Babar Azam) We had some pre-game plans, it was just about following those, building a partnership, and kind of making match-winning contributions. It was great to bat out there with Babar tonight, and to be able to watch him up close was awesome.

Tom Kohler-Cadmore is the Player Of The Match

Right, time for the presentations now.

James Neesham: It's fantastic. It was an amazing atmosphere. Happy to come up with the win but there are a few things for us to clean up on. I didn't drop mine (catch), I didn't even get a hand on it. It's the first game, no one's a hundred percent yet, but we'll get there. There's no time to be rusty, that's the nature of franchise tournaments. It was pretty wet towards the end with the dew coming down. It was a bit messy but when you handle situations like that, it gives you confidence to do well later in the tournament when the tough games also come along.

Imad Wasim: It was a decent score. It was a 200-wicket. If one batter would have got himself in, we could have won it. Credit to the ground staff for a great wicket. You can't buy experience. These are situations where he (Malik) would win us the game 9/10 times. Hopefully, we'll get over the line next time. It was hard to bowl on this surface, but it was lovely to bat. The key was to take wickets, which they did early on. We'll get together and figure out how to go about our bowling plans. Our batting didn't click today but hopefully it does next time.

Match summary:

Peshawar Zalmi 1st innings 199/5 (20 Overs)
Karachi Kings 2nd innings 197/5 (20 Overs)

Peshawar Zalmi win by 2 runs

Tom Kohler-Cadmore 92 (50) | James Neesham 2/26 (4)
Imad Wasim 80*(47) | Mir Hamza 1/13 (2)

That contest was the raw definition of a humdinger! The viewers had very little idea of which way this contest was heading until the final delivery of the match! The Karachi Kings had it going into the slog overs, and despite not enjoying any sort of luck, with catches being dropped and front feet landing over the popping crease in delivery strides, the Peshawar Zalmi bowlers, Wahab Riaz and Khurram Shahzad in particular towards the end, kept their composure, stuck to their plans, and delivered at crunch moments!

Wahab Riaz delivered a breakthrough early on in the chase, sending Sharjeel Khan back to the hut off the second ball. Matthew Wade tried to go on the counter attack after that. He was starting to look good, making the most of the powerplay, but holed out trying to hack Neesham across the line. The scoreboard pressure then went on to account for two youngsters - Qasim Akram and Haider Ali failed to make an impression today.

Imad Wasim and Shoaib Malik then got together and began a passage of play full of consolidation. At one stage, the way they were playing risk-free cricket, not going after the bowling, one might have been a bit befuddled with their approach. It turned out to be a productive one, though, as the duo looked to keep the scoreboard ticking and punished the bad balls. It wasn't until the 13th over that they began to cut loose properly. The duo tonked an economical Shakib for 21 in the over, and from then on, the game was right in the balance.

That over helped the Kings gain a lot of momentum. They maintained the required rate really well since then, and going into the penultimate over, they needed exactly two runs a ball. There was a crucial dropped chance in the penultimate over, a wicket off a no ball as well, but Wahab Riaz managed to keep the equation to 16 off the final over. Khurram Shahzad then went on to land it in the blockhole throughout the final over. He overstepped on one occasion as well, but that didn't account for much eventually as the Peshawar Zalmi made it 5 wins against the Kings in the last 6 encounters between these two teams!

Khurram Shahzad roars in delight! He missed the yorker off the final delivery, but it hardly mattered anymore! Despite the sundries, he landed them on the batting crease all along and bowled his team to a victory in the end! It is Peshawar Zalmi, who take the game after a series of twists and turns throughout the run-chase!

overs

197 /5 score

2nb

runs

Imad Wasim *

80 (47)

Ben Cutting

9 (8)

Khurram Shehzad

0 /46

19.6 Khurram Shahzad to Imad Wasim, SIX! Shahzad can still let out a roar and celebrate! He's held his nerve, just about! Ends with a gentle full toss and Wasim takes full toll to hoick it over square leg for a maximum. So close, yet so far for Karachi Kings and their captain but it's Peshawar Zalmi who clinch a nail-biter by 3 runs!

Ohhh, that hurts! But it shouldn't have much of an effect on Shahzad, at least for now, for the adrenaline of bowling his team to victory must be at an all-time high!

19.5 Khurram Shahzad to Ben Cutting, nails another yorker in the off-stump line and it's been drilled right back to him. That one crashes into Shahzad's knee which will sting. More important though, it's only a single. That should be the game, as long as he doesn't do anything silly on the final delivery.

That is tight, very tight on both counts, but this one was a legal delivery!

19.4 Khurram Shahzad to Imad Wasim, well, now. Is that too high? It doesn't matter, it's still a no-ball because Shahzad seems to have overstepped again. The high full toss it miscued towards mid-off for a single. A direct hit from the fielder would have been curtains for Wasim. Some confusion all around, but it's deemed to be a fair delivery on both accounts! 10 needed off 2 now. Shahzad needs to make sure he keeps his foot behind the line

Oh no! Oh no no no! It was all going so, so well for Shahzad and the Zalmis, they were on the verge of closing this game out and now this happens! Daren Sammy is in disbelief at the dugout!

19.4 Khurram Shahzad to Ben Cutting, no ball! Head in hands in the Peshawar dugout. It's the perfect yorker that's been bunted down to long-onf or a single. Ideally, the ideal result for Zalmi but Shahzad had overstepped. Free hit loading!

Imad Wasim chucks his bat away in frustration! Three singles off the first three! Khurram Shahzad has landed them close to the blockhole really well!

19.3 Khurram Shahzad to Imad Wasim, keeps finding the low full toss outside off and Wasim misses out. Smacks this straight to mid-off and gets a single. You can see the frustration on Wasim's face as he tosses his bat away in despair