365 Sporting Days

Game 6 – Karachi Kings v Quetta Gladiators

Karachi – 156 for 9

• Babar Azam – 26 from 23 balls
• Sharjeel Khan – 6 from 12
• Alex Hales – 29 from 27
• Cameron Delport – 22 from 12
• Chadwick Walton – 1 from 4
• Iftikhar Ahmed – 25 from 18
• Imad Wasim (c) – 8 from 10
• Chris Jordan – 14 from 9
• Umaid Asif – 9 from
• Mohammad Amir – Not Out 0
• Arshad Iqbaln – DNB

Quetta 157 for 5

• Jason Roy – 17 from 20 balls
• Shane Watson – 27 from 20
• Ahmed Shehzad – 11 from 9
• Sarfaraz Ahmed (c) – 37 from 28
• Azam Khan – 46 from 30
• Mohammad Nawaz – 1 from 3
• Anwar Ali – Not Out 12 from 4
• Naseem Shah – DNB
• Sohail Khan – DNB
• Mohammad Hasnain – DNB
• Tymal Mills – DNB

This game saw some ascendancy for the bowlers; with Naseem Shah bowling his 4 overs for just 23 runs, Sohail Khan 24 and Hasnain took 3 for 33 in from his 4 overs. That restricted Karachi to 156.

Quetta scored the runs to win with an over to spare, Imad was the best of the Karachi bowlers with just 20 from his 4 overs.

Game 7 – Lahore Qalanders v Islamabad Utd

Lahore – 182 for 6

• Fakhar Zaman – 33 from 26 balls
• Chris Lynn – 11 from 8
• Mohammad Hafeez – 98 from 57
• Sohail Akhtar – 1 from 6
• Dane Vilas – 3 from 4
• Samit Patel – 10 from 9
• David Wiese – 19 from 9
• Muhammad Faizan – NO 0
• Shaheen Afridi – DNB
• Haris Rauf – DNB
• Usman Shinwari – DNB

Islamabad – 183 for 9

• Luke Ronchi – 1 from 4 balls
• Colin Munro – 2 from 4
• Dawid Malan – 22 from 22
• Shadab Khan (c) – 52 from 29
• Colin Ingram – 30 from 14
• Asif Ali – 18 from 11
• Hussain Talat – 5 from 7
• Faheem Ashraf – 11 from 7
• Amad Butt – 8 from 4
• Ahmed Safi Abdullah – NO 8 from 8
• Muhammad Musa – NO 17 from 11

This one went down to the wire, Hafeez played a superb innings in a losing cause scoring 98 from 57 balls. His young bowling colleague Shaheen Afridi did his best to take his team to the line, taking 4 for 18 in his 4 overs.

But a captain’s innings from Shadab of 52 from 29 balls and some gritty lower order batting saw Islamabad win with one ball to spare.

In spite of being on the losing side, I have 2 Star Men today with the first being Mohammad Hafeez with his 98 from 57 balls and the second Shaheen Afridi with 4 for 18