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Karachi Kings (176/5) defeat Lahore Qalandars (169/7) by 7 runs

If Karachi don't win today they will be out of the tournament.
 
The cricket enthusiast said:
Imad should open the bowling.
Beyond my understanding why he is afraid to bowl in pp considering he use to be one kf the top.
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He just bowled the first over of the innings and Fakhar smacked him for 2 sixes. Nawaz is a superior bowler these days (but inferior batsman).
 
Considering how Lahori Openers are batting, it seems Babar once again batted slowly on a flat track.
 
Rafa said:
If Karachi don't win today they will be out of the tournament.
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They deserve to be out of the tournament TBH. Lahore at least plays with some heart while Karachi is filled with former fixers and wannabe superstars.

The Kings owner needs to retain Babar but rebuild rest of the team.
 
Fakhar will cost Lahore this what a pathetic innings..out of 19 balls he has hit 2 sixes...alll dots
 
El Generico said:
Sure he is lol

Danish Aziz in T20s: Batting average of 37.9 with a SR of 135

Imad Wasim in T20s: Batting average of 18 with a SR of 123.

While stats aren’t everything, such a huge discrepancy can’t be ignored.

As for his captaincy, he may not be the worst but his habit of overrating himself cost Karachi players like Usama Mir, Umer Khan and Abrar Ahmed. All three were vastly superior spinners but had to sit out because the captain has to play and bowl four overs.

Even in the season they won, Imad didn’t do much with the bat or bowl nor was his captaincy anything special that warrants putting up with his mediocrity. If Babar is good enough to captain Pakistan then I am sure he can handle Karachi as well.
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What are Danish Aziz's stats in international cricket?

LOL are you really using PSL as a barometer for success? Guys like Asif Ali do well in PSL.

Imad is a proven performer on the international level. He is also the only genuine all-rounder Pakistan have. And unlike 90% of the mental midgets who become heroes in PSL and domestic, Imad actually knows how to handle pressure, evident by his match-winning knock against Afghanistan at the World Cup.

He can not bowl or bat all season and that still wouldn't change the fact that he is one of the few mentally strong and international quality players Pakistan have.
 
What is Fakhar Zaman doing?? He has 12 runs off 2 balls with 2 sixes, and then 3 runs off 18 balls as an opener on this deck!
 
El Generico said:
Sure he is lol

Danish Aziz in T20s: Batting average of 37.9 with a SR of 135

Imad Wasim in T20s: Batting average of 18 with a SR of 123.

While stats aren’t everything, such a huge discrepancy can’t be ignored.

As for his captaincy, he may not be the worst but his habit of overrating himself cost Karachi players like Usama Mir, Umer Khan and Abrar Ahmed. All three were vastly superior spinners but had to sit out because the captain has to play and bowl four overs.

Even in the season they won, Imad didn’t do much with the bat or bowl nor was his captaincy anything special that warrants putting up with his mediocrity. If Babar is good enough to captain Pakistan then I am sure he can handle Karachi as well.
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Also, huge discrepancy? Danish Aziz 25 T20s. Most of which in the National T20 Cup. The only T20Is he ahs played are against Zimbabwe. Imad has played 219 T20s spanning different countries.
 
RedwoodOriginal said:
What are Danish Aziz's stats in international cricket?

LOL are you really using PSL as a barometer for success? Guys like Asif Ali do well in PSL.

Imad is a proven performer on the international level. He is also the only genuine all-rounder Pakistan have. And unlike 90% of the mental midgets who become heroes in PSL and domestic, Imad actually knows how to handle pressure, evident by his match-winning knock against Afghanistan at the World Cup.

He can not bowl or bat all season and that still wouldn't change the fact that he is one of the few mentally strong and international quality players Pakistan have.
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Dude we were literally talking about PSL so obviously I will bring in PSL/domestics stats. Danish hasn’t even played enough international cricket for his international stats to mean anything.

While picking a side for PSL, international cricket is irrelevant. Asif Ali dominates in PSL so I would definitely have him in my PSL side regardless of his international failures. However I wouldn’t pick him in the national side because we have seen enough of him there to know that he is pretty much a domestic specialist. Horses for courses.

Again despite his supposed superior mental strength in internationals and fifty against Afghanistan 2 years ago, he clearly hasn’t be able to live up to the hype in PSL. Even in international cricket the guy is barely hanging on to a spot since Mohammed Wasim(a guy who actually knows how stats work) has taken over as selector.


As a Karachi fan, I would prefer a specialist spinner instead of Imad but the Kings management seem to love Imad Wasim so sadly I doubt he is going anywhere. Thinking of changing my allegiance to Multan or Islamabad TBH.
 
And there goes Fakhar...i have no idea what kind of innings that was. He thought he was actually a batsman and not a tail ender maybe
 
For every "match-losing" innings Babar plays, Sharjeel and Fakhar don't even play a long enough knock to be talked about.

Zaman has scored 200 less runs than Babar at a lower strike rate this PSL.
 
Imad having a pretty good individual day today so far. Played a good cameo and now bowling well with the older ball.
 
Lol! Could this have been a double play if Hafeez would also have been out? Would have been possibly the first time in cricket
 
Firebat said:
For every "match-losing" innings Babar plays, Sharjeel and Fakhar don't even play a long enough knock to be talked about.

Zaman has scored 200 less runs than Babar at a lower strike rate this PSL.
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Do performances in the PSL matter IF a player is performing at International level? Would Babar Azam be dropped from the national team if he didn’t perform in the PSL?
 
El Generico said:
Dude we were literally talking about PSL so obviously I will bring in PSL/domestics stats. Danish hasn’t even played enough international cricket for his international stats to mean anything.

While picking a side for PSL, international cricket is irrelevant. Asif Ali dominates in PSL so I would definitely have him in my PSL side regardless of his international failures. However I wouldn’t pick him in the national side because we have seen enough of him there to know that he is pretty much a domestic specialist. Horses for courses.

Again despite his supposed superior mental strength in internationals and fifty against Afghanistan 2 years ago, he clearly hasn’t be able to live up to the hype in PSL. Even in international cricket the guy is barely hanging on to a spot since Mohammed Wasim(a guy who actually knows how stats work) has taken over as selector.


As a Karachi fan, I would prefer a specialist spinner instead of Imad but the Kings management seem to love Imad Wasim so sadly I doubt he is going anywhere. Thinking of changing my allegiance to Multan or Islamabad TBH.
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Oh so you can compare their T20 stats eventhough one guy has 25 matches whereas the other has played 219, but you draw the line when it comes to comparing them in international cricket?

We are talking about who is a better player. And because Imad is a better, more experienced, world-class all-rounder as opposed to Danish Aziz who had circles rung around him by third-rate Zimbabwean medium-pacers; than obviously he deserves to bat above him.

You either don't watch enough cricket or you have some kind of dislike for Imad. Because Imad's numbers speak for themself. He's a proven commodity in limited-overs cricket for Pakistan and an outstanding hitter, especially in ODIs. It doesn't even matter if he doesn't bat, bowl or field in the same T20 league that has elevated the likes of Asif Ali, Khushdil Shah and Husain Talat, he's still a world-class player.
 
Right a question just curious ...how many afghans are playing in the PSL this year
 
YousafTheBeast said:
Do performances in the PSL matter IF a player is performing at International level? Would Babar Azam be dropped from the national team if he didn’t perform in the PSL?
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Babar Azam is performing at international level, and still there is a ridiculous level of scrutiny and overt criticism on his PSL performances. Those criticisms usually come with the line that Sharjeel and Fakhar deserve to be opening instead of him, yet the failures of those 2 and the consistency in which Babar has been outperforming them in the PSL does not receive an iota of the same attention.

Babar and Fakhar are both performing at international level, so surely neither of their PSL performances should matter? Yet Babar scoring mountains of runs slowishly is so heavily bashed, meanwhile Fakhar and Sharjeel's failures in the same competition are hardly mentioned.
 
RedwoodOriginal said:
Oh so you can compare their T20 stats eventhough one guy has 25 matches whereas the other has played 219, but you draw the line when it comes to comparing them in international cricket?

We are talking about who is a better player. And because Imad is a better, more experienced, world-class all-rounder as opposed to Danish Aziz who had circles rung around him by third-rate Zimbabwean medium-pacers; than obviously he deserves to bat above him.

You either don't watch enough cricket or you have some kind of dislike for Imad. Because Imad's numbers speak for themself. He's a proven commodity in limited-overs cricket for Pakistan and an outstanding hitter, especially in ODIs. It doesn't even matter if he doesn't bat, bowl or field in the same T20 league that has elevated the likes of Asif Ali, Khushdil Shah and Husain Talat, he's still a world-class player.
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Perhaps I was a bit harsh on him but you really are overrating him. He is no where near world class, I mean he was literally dropped from the international side not too long ago.

Anyways I don’t dislike him but I do have a issue with the way he has treated younger players. Unless you are new to PSL, you would know how he pretty much ended the PSL careers of Usama Mir and Umer Khan by either not playing them or by under using them.

To me it seems like he undermines young player who he sees as a threat to his place. Shadab does the same with Zafar Gohar so it’s not just a Imad only problem.
 
Hafeez very very lucky to still be there. A very bad innings so far
 
[MENTION=147292]RedwoodOriginal[/MENTION]
As for Aziz, he is a middle order batsman and he will never develop if he is forced to bat at 7 or 8. Maybe today Imad coming ahead of him was fine due to the situation but in a usual line up, Aziz should be batting ahead of him.
 
I guess wicket has gotten a bit slower and is taking bit more turn as the day has progressed
 
Hafeez showed no sense. This was noor’s last ball could have played it for a single and seen him out
 
Now KK actually realized that it is going to be a spin attack which will led you win the matches in UAE
 
6-7 more sixes somewhere in the rest of the balls can still make a match out of this. :smith
 
Ummii said:
Now KK actually realized that it is going to be a spin attack which will led you win the matches in UAE
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Top two teams have done it with pace though and even LQ has relied upon pace as well. However, KK did good to realize the changing nature of today’s wicket.
 
Titan24 said:
Top two teams have done it with pace though and even LQ has relied upon pace as well. However, KK did good to realize the changing nature of today’s wicket.
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Top team did because they got better pace option whereas KK got inexperienced and finished bowling attack, probably weakest among all team
 
Firebat said:
Babar Azam is performing at international level, and still there is a ridiculous level of scrutiny and overt criticism on his PSL performances. Those criticisms usually come with the line that Sharjeel and Fakhar deserve to be opening instead of him, yet the failures of those 2 and the consistency in which Babar has been outperforming them in the PSL does not receive an iota of the same attention.

Babar and Fakhar are both performing at international level, so surely neither of their PSL performances should matter? Yet Babar scoring mountains of runs slowishly is so heavily bashed, meanwhile Fakhar and Sharjeel's failures in the same competition are hardly mentioned.
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I think the issue with Babar batting slowly is that he’s playing for himself and not the team. If he can hit big at the end of the innings then why can’t he do it at the start? The reason why Sharjeel and Fakhar get out early is because they take more risks for the team. Sharjeel didn’t have to play that shot he played today to get out, he wasn’t forced to play that shot, he just pre mediated and hoped for the best. Sometimes it comes off, sometimes it doesn’t.

Babar can be consistent, but consistency doesn’t always mean that you’re playing for the team.
 
El Generico said:
Perhaps I was a bit harsh on him but you really are overrating him. He is no where near world class, I mean he was literally dropped from the international side not too long ago.

Anyways I don’t dislike him but I do have a issue with the way he has treated younger players. Unless you are new to PSL, you would know how he pretty much ended the PSL careers of Usama Mir and Umer Khan by either not playing them or by under using them.

To me it seems like he undermines young player who he sees as a threat to his place. Shadab does the same with Zafar Gohar so it’s not just a Imad only problem.
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Naah he is world-class. And for a team like Pakistan whose idea of an all-rounder for the last two decades was Afridi, he is a godsend. The fact that he was dropped from the side by a YouTube pundit who has managed to con his way to the position of chief-selector doesn't change anything.

You are beginning to sound like a conspiracy theorist now. You need to go and look at Umer Khan and Usama Mir's numbers in T20s. Usama Mir in particular got plenty of chances during the earlier seasons but never did anything to stand-out. And an average of 30 in T20s is frankly pathetic. Imad has better numbers than both eventhough he has played more T20s than both of them combined.

You can keep spinning conspiracy theories all day but there is a reason why Zafar Gohar or any of these other guys are not in the side but Imad and Shadab are. If you haven't been able to see that yet than that's your problem not mine. Zafar certainly showed that today.
 
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Fakhar n hafeez will cost them...when.u have firepower down below how can u play so conservativ
 
I would honestly send Rauf in next. He is striking them very well also!
 
YousafTheBeast said:
I think the issue with Babar batting slowly is that he’s playing for himself and not the team. If he can hit big at the end of the innings then why can’t he do it at the start? The reason why Sharjeel and Fakhar get out early is because they take more risks for the team. Sharjeel didn’t have to play that shot he played today to get out, he wasn’t forced to play that shot, he just pre mediated and hoped for the best. Sometimes it comes off, sometimes it doesn’t.

Babar can be consistent, but consistency doesn’t always mean that you’re playing for the team.
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I don't buy into this notion that he's selfish, or not playing for the team, or has some sort of ulterior motive other than winning the game. These are professional athletes playing at the elite level, believe me they care only about winning. Babar is not walking out to the middle hoping to meander to a 50 so he can be at the top of the run-scoring charts at the cost of winning the cricket game.

It's more a case of incompetence really. He is brilliant when on form, but his power game is so limited and it takes him so long to get settled into an innings to a point where he can unleash. Many times in Babar knocks we have seen angry, frustrated flailing swipes and slogs. On the occasion it clicks, it's magical, but he can't make it click as easy as we would like. It's not on purpose.

Babar is not the ideal T20 player of course, but my issue is that people bash him overtly out of some belief that his selfishness is holding back a couple of Roys and Bairstows who make 70/0 powerplays and chase down 200+.

Intent and "playing for the team" only means so much if you don't perform. Every time Asif Ali hits a shot down a boundary fielder's throat, is he not playing for the team and taking risks? Let's get him in for Babar.
 
That was a high quality over by Mohammad Amir.

Possibly one that wins the match for KK.
 
Great match that.

Could have gone either way.

Good effort by KK bowlers in the last few overs.
 
Thanks to that pathetic full toss by Haris in the last over. Lahore loses again. They are in huge trouble now.
 
Babar Azam’s 20th HBL PSL half-century followed by a disciplined bowling display from Karachi Kings helped deliver a thrilling seven-run win over rivals Lahore Qalandars in the 27th match of the sixth edition of the tournament. This was Qalandars’ third successive defeat.

Kings, the title defenders, remained on the fifth spot on the points table after the win, but they now have eight points from four wins in nine matches. Qalandars’ position also remained unchanged as they sat on the third spot with 10 points.

Qalandars were provided a flying start in their chase of 177. Fakhar Zaman smashed Imad Wasim for two gigantic sixes on the leg-side and Sohail Akhtar, the Qalandars captain, followed it up with two fours off Mohammad Amir in the second. The third over added another 11 runs to the total, but it took almost seven more overs and the loss of three wickets for Qalandars to score the next 34 as Kings, on the back of their brilliant bowling, pulled their side back in the contest.

It was young pacer Mohammad Ilyas who delivered the first breakthrough as he trapped Qalandars captain LBW in the fifth over. Imad had his revenge on the first ball of the ninth over when he bowled Fakhar. Meanwhile, left-arm wrist spinner from Afghanistan, Noor Ahmad, continued to deny any opportunities to Qalandars batsmen to score runs.

A comic mix-up during an appeal for leg-before wicket on Noor’s bowling saw Agha Salman run out at the non-striker’s end thanks to Danish Aziz’s presence of mind and a superb direct hit.

Ben Dunk was the next wicket to fall when Babar Azam took a sharp catch at first slip off Noor on the last ball of the 12th over.

Any hopes that Qalandars fans harboured were shattered on the last ball of the 14th over when Hafeez drove Noor straight to Imad at extra cover. Qalandars by this time now were five down for 92 with the required run-rate at a daunting 14.17.

The 16-year-old finished with two for 19 from four overs.

But there was a twist in the tale. A scintillating display of power-hitting from Tim David (34 off 14, three sixes and two fours) and James Faulkner (33 off 18, three sixes and one four) added 58 runs to the team’s total in just four overs. Their stay at the crease was laden with the sight of ball flying all around the park and in the 18th over, the pair struck Abbas Afridi for three sixes in the first four balls before David holed out to long-off.

Qalandars needed 18 off the last three balls and Rashid Khan deposited Ilyas for a six over third-man. That final hope, however, was short lived as the next ball went to four and the last ball turned out to be a dot.

Kings’ innings was studded with yet another Babar half-century. The Pakistan captain stroked seven fours in his 44-ball 54 and is now just six runs away from becoming the first batsman to touch 2,000-run mark in the HBL PSL. Over the course of his stay at the crease, he got as many as four reprieves being dropped each time.

He could have been the first wicket of the day had Ben Dunk caught an edge off James Faulkner in the second over. He was put down in the fifth over off Haris Rauf and twice of Ahmed Daniyal by Haris in the 10th over and Rashid in the 15th. Babar’s scores at these instances were one, nine, 23 and 54.

Qalandars’ inability to get Babar out allowed him to stitch 88 runs with Martin Guptill, who made his first notable contribution with 43 off 31 and smashed three sixes and two fours. Their partnership was finally broken by Ahmed when Guptill chopped on the right-arm pacer and Qalandars inched back into the contest with Rashid’s double blows in the 16th over as the Afghanistan leg-spinner bowled Chadwick Walton on the first ball and got Babar caught on the penultimate ball. Babar’s was the last Kings wicket to fall.

Imad hammered three fours and a six in his blistering 30 not out off 19 as Kings managed 49 off the death overs.

Match 27 – Karachi Kings beat Lahore Qalandars by seven runs

Karachi Kings 176-5, 20 overs (Babar Azam 54, Martin Guptill 43, Imad Wasim 30 not out; Rashid Khan 2-25)

Lahore Qalandars 169-7, 20 overs (Mohammad Hafeez 36, Tim David 34, James Faulkner 33; Noor Ahmad 2-19, Mohammad Ilyas 2-41)

Player of the match - Noor Ahmad (Karachi Kings)
 
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