-Vinay Kumar
In their first match of Pakistan Super League PSL 2022, Captain Shoaib Malik’s team ‘Peshawar Jalmi’ defeated Sarfraz Khan’s captaincy team ‘Quetta Gladiators’ (Quetta). Gladiators) by 5 wickets. This match was high-scoring, in which ‘Peshawar Jalmi’ captain Shoaib Malik scored an unbeaten 48 off 32 balls and played a big role in his team’s victory.
Shoaib Malik hit 1 four and 4 sixes in this smoky innings. Apart from him, Hussain Talat also played an excellent innings of 52 runs in 29 balls. Team’s opener Yasir Khan gave a tremendous start to ‘Peshawar Zalmi’ by scoring 30 runs in 12 balls.
It is worth noting that the captaincy of this match was given to Shoaib Malik due to the corona infection of Peshawar Zalmi’s regular captain Wahab Riaz. Left-handed batsman Hussain Talat scored 52 runs in 29 balls and together with captain Shoaib, he shared an 81-run partnership for his team. In this match ‘Quetta Gladiators’ scored 190 runs for 4 wickets.
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In the innings of ‘Peshawar Jalmi’, for Quetta Gladiators, James Faulkner of Australia walked Hussain Talat in the 17th over, then ‘Peshawar Zalmko’ to win. Had to score 32 runs in 3 overs. Team captain Shoaib Malik gave his team victory in the next over of bowler James Faulkner by hitting 2 superb sixes and 1 formidable four. It is worth noting that in the opening match of this season’s new tournament, ‘Multan Sultan PSL 2022’ defeated ‘Karachi Kings’ by 7 wickets.
It is worth noting that 6 teams are playing in this latest season of ‘Pakistan Super League’ (PSL). A total of 34 matches will be played in this league. The final and title match of the season will be held on 27 February at the Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore (PSL 2022 Final Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore). In this league, all 6 teams will play each other in the first 2-2 matches. After this the top-4 teams will go to the play-offs of this league. Today, on Saturday, January 29, 2 matches will be played. One match will be between ‘Multan Sultans’ and ‘Lahore Qalandars’ (Lahore Kalandars vs Multan Sultans) and the other ‘Karachi Kings’ and ‘Quetta Gladiators’.