Peshawar Zalmi (206/8) beat Islamabad United (196/7) by 10 runs in Match 24 of PSL 7

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Peshawar Zalmi looking to strengthen their claim for the top 4, against what will be a depleted IU side due to injuries....

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Squads:

Islamabad United Squad: Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Muhammad Akhlaq, Shadab Khan(c), Liam Dawson, Azam Khan(w), Asif Ali, Faheem Ashraf, Hasan Ali, Waqas Maqsood, Zeeshan Zameer, Colin Munro, Marchant de Lange, Zafar Gohar, Muhammad Musa, Zahir Khan, Danish Aziz, Mohammad Wasim Jr, Mohammad Huraira, Athar Mahmood, Mubasir Khan

Peshawar Zalmi Squad: Hazratullah Zazai, Mohammad Haris(w), Liam Livingstone, Shoaib Malik, Hussain Talat, Sherfane Rutherford, Ben Cutting, Wahab Riaz(c), Usman Qadir, Mohammad Umar, Salman Irshad, Kamran Akmal, Sohail Khan, Amad Butt, Tom Kohler-Cadmore, Sameen Gul, Patrick Brown, Arshad Iqbal, Haider Ali, Arish Ali Khan, Mohammad Aamir Khan, Sirajuddin, Yasir Khan


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[Rana]

Hardly anything to look forward to when PZ play besides Muhammad Harris

 

[BunnyRabbit]

Is Munro available for tonight's game?

 

[MenInG]

Peshawar Zalmi opt to bat first against Islamabad United in Match 24 of PSL 7

 

[shamaan]

Hardly anything to look forward to when PZ play besides Muhammad Harris

And yasir Khan

 

[Rana]

Absolute gun bat!

 

[Rana]

Fakhar Zaman and Mohammad Harris

Wouldn’t that be a great opening pair?

 

[Ahmed216]

Haris seems to be inspired by Rizwan. Looks to turn everything towards leg side.
And he plays an inside out as if musa is a spinner. What a player

 

[asadee]

Poor from Wahab to drop Haider Ali

 

[DeadlyVenom]

Misbah picking Musa in Australia was probably the worst decision made in the history of cricket. Unfortunately this guy is not even a domestic level bowler.

 

[Rana]

Haris seems to be inspired by Rizwan. Looks to turn everything towards leg side.
And he plays an inside out as if musa is a spinner. What a player

Na mate Harris is 100% 360

He can play all around the park.

 

[shamaan]

Finally the scoop has been played by haris

 

[Omer2002]

5 balls and 5 different shots been played

 

[Rana]

Misbah picking Musa in Australia was probably the worst decision made in the history of cricket. Unfortunately this guy is not even a domestic level bowler.

Picking Musa
Picking Imam T20
Picking Irfan out of the retirement home
Playing Rizwan as the opener (I stand by this throughout my life)

 

[shamaan]

Haris seems to be inspired by Rizwan. Looks to turn everything towards leg side.
And he plays an inside out as if musa is a spinner. What a player

No he can play both sides of the wicket and is inventive

 

[Rana]

22 off that over

My man is 29 off 9

When was the last time you saw any Pakistani opener with this kind of strike rate?

 

[realitygaf]

Haris just ended Musa's career

 

[Omer2002]

Picking Musa
Picking Imam T20
Picking Irfan out of the retirement home
Playing Rizwan as the opener (I stand by this throughout my life)

Rizwan has done pretty decent and his numbers suggest that its just tough luck that him and babz are similar and i do agree we defo need a fakhar type of power hitter as opener

 

[Rana]

Dewald Brevis is taking all the headlines

But Harris is no mug with the bat either!

 

[Rana]

Not very short but a great pick up for 6!

 

[Ahmed216]

No he can play both sides of the wicket and is inventive

From what I've seen i think he's not able to impart as much power to his off side strokes

 

[Villager6964]

Haris is an exciting player like rizwan and he plays like him too.He favours leg side more.

 

[realitygaf]

From what I've seen i think he's not able to impart as much power to his off side strokes

bottom hand, it doesnt mean he cant hit on off side but is leg side power is higher

 

[shamaan]

From what I've seen i think he's not able to impart as much power to his off side strokes

I agree it's always harder thou to hit 6s on the offside.

 

[CricVet]

Zalmi got a serious talent in Haris - wow! I was thinking that Zalmi and Karachi would be out, but may be not. The race for the 4th contender is now all open after Islamabad got weakened.

 

[shamaan]

Conculated risk From haris

 

[CricVet]

Zazai, the master blaster of Afghans, has only 3 out of 6 (50%sr). Haris is cruising on the other hand with almost 6 times the SR.

 

[Rana]

46 off 16

No hacks

 

[shamaan]

Leg side hack haris

 

[Ahmed216]

I agree it's always harder thou to hit 6s on the offside.

And he now hits a six over cover.
Man he's putting all my apprehensions to rest in a single innings. This guy is an awesome talent

 

[shamaan]

Get the lad into the t20 squad!

 

[Rana]

This will be a test

De Lange is genuine pace

 

[Muhammad Kaleem]

Muhammad Haris is treat to watch.

 

[Rana]

What did Waqar say?

“Some serious Shooting” or some serious “SaHooting”

 

[PakPremi]

Haris was not given many chances by his teams, but boy can he play. Love to see him play for Pakistan in not too distant future. Hurraira is another batsman I like to see in green shirt soon.

 

[shamaan]

And he now hits a six over cover.
Man he's putting all my apprehensions to rest in a single innings. This guy is an awesome talent

I watched him in the u19s World cup and you could tell he's he will play for Pakistan he also can play shots by ABD.

 

[shah_1]

Little dynamite

 

[Villager6964]

I can't believe they were playing useless kamran akmal instead of this gem of a player haris.

 

[Villager6964]

50 off just 18 balls. What a knock he is playing here.

 

[Rana]

50 off 18

MashaAllah

I only saw Pakistani tailenders fluke 50s of 22 balls since Afridi retired

 

[silentkiller187]

so this guy was being held back because of kamran akmal?

 

[Ahmed216]

Safe to say haris is a much bigger talent than Abdullah shafique. Abdullah doesnt look like a naturally gifted batsman to me. Technique is all cosmetic

 

[shah_1]

Sarfraz Allah Hafiz to your white ball career

 

[Ahmed216]

50 off 18

MashaAllah

I only saw Pakistani tailenders fluke 50s of 22 balls since Afridi retired

Haha so true

 

[PakPremi]

Without Shadab IU falling apart, especially in bowling he will be missed a lot.

 

[shah_1]

Safe to say haris is a much bigger talent than Abdullah shafique. Abdullah doesnt look like a naturally gifted batsman to me. Technique is all cosmetic

Abdullah looks more suited for test circket

 

[shamaan]

Safe to say haris is a much bigger talent than Abdullah shafique. Abdullah doesnt look like a naturally gifted batsman to me. Technique is all cosmetic

Abdullah is suited to tests and odis

Haris is suited to t20 and maybe odis

Two different kind of players.

 

[shamaan]

Sarfraz Allah Hafiz to your white ball career

Sarfraz was never going to last whist ramiz is thier.

 

[silentkiller187]

tame ending but good knock, looked out, maybe not gloved it

 

[shah_1]

Not out

 

[PakPremi]

so this guy was being held back because of kamran akmal?

Akmal cannot even hold back Rashid Latif or Moin Khan if they came back from reirement even at their age. It was a farce he got selected and then played ahead of Haris despite his poor outings last two or three PSL touraments.l

 

[PakPremi]

so this guy was being held back because of kamran akmal?

Akmal cannot even hold back Rashid Latif or Moin Khan if they came back from reirement even at their age. It was a farce he got selected and then played ahead of Haris despite his poor outings last two or three PSL touraments.l

 

[imranq]

Reminds me of Imran Nazir

 

[Villager6964]

Zazai is such a limited batsman. I don't understand why they selected him in the first place.

 

[Rana]

What was that ridiculous decision by Raza?

In domestic cricket there is no drs system. God knows how many young talents have been destroyed because of poor umpiring

 

[Savak]

Teams have done their HW on Zazai. They have pitched the ball up and on his middle and leg stump or bought in the spinners.

 

[ha5is12]

Azam Khan and Musa doing their best to get dropped from all forms of cricket

 

[ha5is12]

Islamabad always been great at producing young talents. Nice to see they helped Harris and on their way to helping Yasir

 

[silentkiller187]

iu look a different outfit without hales, stirling and shadab

 

[D/DAhmed]

Mubasir Khan is the most atrocious fielder I've ever seen, Mohd Irfan/Rahat Ali look like Jonty Rhodes compared to him. Meanwhile Peshawar are butchering this Islamabad bowling attack

 

[arakhaan01]

For what reason is Peshawar Zalmi playing Sharfane Rutherford again?

He is one of the worst or if not, the worst overseas player in the PSL. He's been pure rubbish. All of the Zalmi matches I have seen, this guy is not interested in playing and looks like he is forced to play but doesn't want to be there. It would be better for another local player to get the chance to play and get some experience.

 

[Villager6964]

Why these mediocre Afghanistan talent get picked in these leagues.

 

[Omer2002]

Abysmal this ..peshawar are batting so deep today wahab is at 9 makes me actually think they are short of bowlers

 

[CricVet]

Kya fielding hay? Pathetic

 

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[Pakhs]

Worst bowling performance I have seen so far in PSL

 

[silentkiller187]

Worst bowling performance I have seen so far in PSL

and fielding and we haven't even had 10 overs yet

 

[D/DAhmed]

Haris has played well here, but I wouldn't take this innings too seriously. He's struggling against the only somewhat international class bowler in this ISLU lineup

 

[CricVet]

All of a sudden, Kings seem better than united.

 

[shamaan]

Haris has played well here, but I wouldn't take this innings too seriously. He's struggling against the only somewhat international class bowler in this ISLU lineup

He hasn't even give them 1 chance.

 

[Rana]

And yasir Khan

He is decent too

 

[Maliq_Mudasir]

Haris>>>>>>>>>Haider

 

[Rana]

Can’t believe Kamran Akmal and Wahab Riaz were keeping Haris out of the side

For what??

 

[YousafTheBeast]

A century here from Haris and it would be impossible for PCB to ignore for national selection.

 

[Rana]

Haris>>>>>>>>>Haider

Haris>>>>>

Babar+Rizwan+Haider

 

[Rana]

He is a strange bloke but a highly talented one

 

[shamaan]

Stunning Innings by Haris

 

[CricVet]

A little too carried away - He looks so much better playing in front of the wicket - threw away the wicket.

 

[PakPremi]

Haris has played well here, but I wouldn't take this innings too seriously. He's struggling against the only somewhat international class bowler in this ISLU lineup

I would not call it struggling when he hit him for 4 first ball and also took a aingle off him. Of course he will play more sensibly of any bowler who is bowling decent. Remember he is quite raw .