Cricket Highlights, 12 March: PSL 2023 (Match 30) – Lahore Qalandars vs Karachi Kings

Lahore Qalandars vs Karachi Kings (Match 30) – Highlights

Yesterday (March 12) Sunday, Lahore Qalandars and Karachi Kings faced each other in the 30th match of the Pakistan Super League. In that important match, Karachi Kings put up a good target by batting first. Later, chasing that target, Lahore Qalandars collapsed before the end of the allotted overs.

Also, Lahore Qalandars is in 1st place after winning 7 matches in the last 10 matches. Those who qualified for the playoffs long ago. Besides, Karachi Kings ended their tournament by winning only 3 matches in the last 10 matches. On the other hand, Muhammad Akhlaq won the title of man of the match with great batting.

Karachi Kings won the toss and elected to bat first and invited Lahore Qalandars to bowl. The condition of the Karachi Kings was not good at the beginning when they came to bat. They lost the first wicket at the team’s 9 runs. Opener Haider Ali left the field with 9 runs off 5 balls with the help of 2 fours.

Then Tayyab Tahir and Muhammad Akhlaq took control of the game. Both of them made a pair of about 70 runs in 6 overs. But Tayyab Tahir was caught out on the 1st ball of the 8th over and had to leave the field. He scored 40 off 23 balls with 4 fours and 1 six before getting out.

Qasim Akram entered the field after Tayyab Tahir got out. He couldn’t do anything. He returned to the dressing room after playing 3 balls and scoring 2 runs. Then Muhammad Akhlaq, who scored the most runs for them, left the field. He played good innings of 51 runs off 36 balls. His innings of 51 runs had 5 fours and 2 sixes.

Imad Wasim and Ben Cutting were leading the game very well from the team’s score of 117. But Imad Wasim was bowled out on the 5th ball of the 18th over and left for the dressing room. He scored 45 runs in 31 balls. He also hit 6 fours. Ben Cutting played great innings at the end. He played excellent innings of 33 runs off 14 balls with the help of 2 fours and 3 sixes. 

Apart from that, Irfan Khan hit a golden duck, James Fuller remained unbeaten for 10 runs from 5 balls, and Mohammad Umar remained unbeaten for 1 run from 2 balls. In the end, their innings stopped at 196 runs with 6 extra runs.

Haris Rauf, Zaman Khan, and Hussain Talat took 2 wickets each for Lahore Qalandars. Besides, Dilbar Hossain took 1 wicket.

With a target of 197 runs, Lahore Qalandars were bowled out for just 110 runs. It seemed that they did not want to play as they qualified for the playoffs. Hussain Talat scored the most runs for them. He scored 25 runs off 25 balls with four fours. Besides, Fakhar Zaman scored 13 runs from 11 balls with the help of 1 four and 1 six, and Abdullah Shafiq scored only 2 runs from 6 balls.

Kamran Ghulam scored 11 runs, Sam Billings scored 11 runs, David Wiese scored 2 runs, Shane Dadswell scored 3 runs, Rashid Khan scored only 6 runs from 13 balls, Haris Rauf scored 18 runs from 14 balls with the help of 2 sixes, Dilbar Hossain scored 8 runs, and Zaman Khan scored 6 runs. In the end, they left the field with a loss of 86 runs with 5 extra runs.

Imad Wasim, Akif Javed, Mohammad Umar, and Imran Tahir took 2 wickets each for Karachi Kings. Besides, James Fuller also took 1 wicket. 

Lahore Qalandars vs Karachi Kings Scoreboard 

Lahore Qalandars – 110/10 (18.5)

Karachi Kings – 196/7 (20.0)  

Result – Karachi Kings won by 86 runs   

Player of the match – Muhammad Akhlaq

Muhammad Akhlaq

Lahore Qalandars vs Karachi Kings Playing XIs