20.0 -
Zohaib Khan to Nabi, FOUR, Nabi has done it in style. Quetta Gladiators trickle home by 2 wickets. And that ball was what your grandmum will bowl to you. Wide, wide ball outside off, Nabi threw his bat at it and ended up slicing it over deep point! Protracted hands, fetched the ball and hammered it for a one-bounce four to nail a win
19.2 -
Zohaib Khan to Nabi, FOUR, executes the full ball again but it's met with more class. Squeezed out for the bowler's head and it pierces the long-on and long-off boundary
18.2 -
Dwayne Bravo to Nabi, FOUR, and another one! Slower one, Nabi wanted to glide it fine but eked out an outside edge that runs to the third man fence
15.2 -
Ehsan Adil to Sarfraz, FOUR, to put it simply, Ehsan Adil is not having a good day. Followed Ahmed with a full ball down leg, Ahmed could still create room and drag it off the inside half to deep mid-wicket. Uppish and vrooms away
14.0 -
Delport to Sangakkara, FOUR, neater than my mathematics paper at school. Creamed. Timed. And with that delicious and flowy loft down the ground, the fifty-run partnership comes up too. Just 32 balls
13.1 -
Delport to Sangakkara, FOUR, deft. Leans in, opens the face of the bat late and steers it away wide of deep backward point
12.4 -
K Cooper to Sangakkara, FOUR, this was a giftwrapped leg-side delivery. Back of a length down leg, Sangakkara rose higher and tucked it away through fine leg
11.5 -
Zohaib Khan to Sangakkara, FOUR, verring down the leg-side, Sangakkara sinks low and sweeps it away through mid-wicket
11.1 -
Zohaib Khan to Sarfraz, FOUR, uses his feet, reincarnates the ball into a full toss and whips it past mid-wicket for a boundary
6.4 -
Delport to Bismillah Khan, FOUR, fifty for Khan , slower delivery and Khan drives it uppishly over the fielder at extra cover
6.1 -
Delport to Bismillah Khan, FOUR, to deep backward point, the partnership between Bismillah Khan and Pietersen is now 53 runs, fuller length delivery and Khan opens the face of the bat on the cover drive to beat the fielder in the circle and the ball races away
4.5 -
Dwayne Bravo to Pietersen, FOUR, that restores the parity, not a controlled pull but will fetch Pietersen four anyway. Short delivery and Pietersen pulls it away from the fielder at deep backward square leg
4.0 -
K Cooper to Bismillah Khan, FOUR, this time he gets the blade to meet the steer on this back of a length delivery and the ball runs away to the third man fence
3.4 -
K Cooper to Bismillah Khan, FOUR, take another one, length delivery and on off, Khan goes on the up on drive, does not time it but powerplay means that the fielders were in on the off-side and the ball rolls away to the deep cover fence
3.3 -
K Cooper to Bismillah Khan, FOUR, wherever you bowl, he will hit, fuller length and on off, Khan presents the full face of the bat and lofts it over the bowler's head for another four. KP's aggresssion has rubbed into Khan
3.1 -
K Cooper to Bismillah Khan, FOUR, leg-side seems Disneyland for the bowlers, everyone wants to go there, length delivery angling in and straying in line, Khan tucks it fine and the ball races away to the fine leg fence
3.0 -
Ehsan Adil to Pietersen, FOUR, that is sheer pressure which made him bowl a half-volley on the legs of KP. He obliged and flicked it away from the fielder at short fine leg, 20 runs came off this over and that will mitigate the pain of losing Shehzad early in the innings
2.5 -
Ehsan Adil to Pietersen, FOUR, this is how you grab the bull by its horn, short delivery and Pietersen whip-pulls it to get it past the fielder at short fine leg. Wasn't that wicket of Shehzad supposed to put pressure?
2.4 -
Ehsan Adil to Pietersen, FOUR, hat-trick of fours from Pietersen, just a flick of the wrist on this fuller length delivery, keeps his head straight and beats the fielder at mid-on, who dived to his right
2.3 -
Ehsan Adil to Pietersen, FOUR, and this time repeats the shot, just makes sure that he turned the bat a little too much to beat the fielder at short fine leg, amazing to see the same shot go in two different directions
2.2 -
Ehsan Adil to Pietersen, FOUR, that is typical KP from Pietersen, moves across and covers the line of the delivery, whips it just over the fielder at mid-wicket, gets off the mark with a four
2.0 -
Z Gohar to Bismillah Khan, FOUR, this is poor bowling from Gohar, he goes for 18 in this over, pitches it well short and Khan has no problems in cutting it through the backward point region
1.5 -
Z Gohar to Bismillah Khan, FOUR, gets closer to the pitch of the delivery and wrists it away to beat the man at mid-on, the ball rolls all along the surface into the fence
1.4 -
Z Gohar to Bismillah Khan, FOUR, short again and Khan decides not to keep it down, cuts it uppishly over the infield at cover and picks up an easy four
1.0 -
Ehsan Adil to Ahmed Shehzad, FOUR, poor delivery and that will be the first boundary for Shehzad, goes back in the crease and pulls it well in front of mid-wicket, a controlled shot from Shehzad
0.3 -
Ehsan Adil to Bismillah Khan, FOUR, straying on the pads of Khan and he whips it away towards deep backward sqaure leg, where the fielder put in a full-fledged dive to his left but could not get his fingers to it
18.5 -
Dwayne Bravo to Anwar Ali, out Caught by U Akmal!! Umar Akmal swoops in from nowhere and gobbles that up straight down the ground. Runs across from cow corner to pouch that. This looked like a well-timed loft but not much power. Dragged his back leg further back to propel the shot but couldn't get the distance. Anwar Ali c U Akmal b Dwayne Bravo 6(8)
17.3 -
Ehsan Adil to Mohammad Nawaz, out Caught by Rizwan!! Someone's jumping in the corporate box and it has to be Lahore Qalandars's owner. Riches-to-Rags-to-Riches match for Ehsan Adil. Good length ball swinging away late, Nawaz swings across the line, manages a feather behind and the keeper snaffles it. Mohammad Nawaz c Rizwan b Ehsan Adil 0(2)
17.0 -
K Cooper to Elliott, out Caught by Ehsan Adil!! And the match's turning. A flurry of wickets and Ehsan Adil has another victim, this time with a catch at short fine. Elliott bent low with a pick-up flick but placed it straight to Adil who wasn't sure about the catch. Had dived in front and wrapped his fingers over the ball. Replays, initially unclear, suggested that Adil had done a fine job and after millions of replays, the decision was ruled against Elliott. Elliott c Ehsan Adil b K Cooper 3(3)
16.0 -
Ehsan Adil to Sangakkara, out Bowled!! Two in the over! How fortunes change. Wicket to start the innings, then a run-flood and then this over from Ehsan Adil, the man who started it all. Full on off, Sangakkara was late into his drive and the ball took the off stick down. Lots of deliberation over the no ball, Adil's found to be fine and finally Sangakkara walks back. Sangakkara b Ehsan Adil 37(26) [4s-4]
15.3 -
Ehsan Adil to Sarfraz, out Bowled!! And Ehsan Adil's misery perhaps seems to be over. Wicket. Dry wash. Wicket. Sarfraz shuffled too far across to paddle the ball to fine leg, misses the straight delivery which cannons into the wood behind. Zing bails light up, Sarfraz falls and screams out a change in batting order as he walks back. Is there life in this match still? Sarfraz b Ehsan Adil 21(17) [4s-2]
8.5 -
Dwayne Bravo to Bismillah Khan, out Caught by Rizwan!! Back to back wickets for Bravo, this time the bouncer does the trick. Khan follows KP into the pavilion, short delivery and Khan went for the pull, was in no position whatsoever, did not even transfer weight, the ball took a thick top edge and skied high, the keeper ran back to his left and stretched his arms to take it with ease. The fine leg was also running in but the keeper called in time to take it. Bismillah Khan c Rizwan b Dwayne Bravo 55(30) [4s-10 6s-1]
8.4 -
Dwayne Bravo to Pietersen, out Caught by U Akmal!! Pace off the ball and that will take the pace off the game as well, slower delivery and Pietersen went early on the loft, the bat turned in his hands and it ballooned high towards the fielder at long-on, who did not have to move an inch to snaffle it. Pietersen c U Akmal b Dwayne Bravo 34(21) [4s-6]
2.1 -
Ehsan Adil to Ahmed Shehzad, out Lbw!! Big appeal and Ahmed Shehzad is gone, length delivery and Shehzad moved way too across to work it into the on-side, missed it completely, the ball hit him on the knee roll and since he was deep in the crease, the umpire did not think the ball would have gone over the stumps. There was never a doubt about the line of the delivery, replays show it would have just clipped the bails. Ahmed Shehzad lbw b Ehsan Adil 4(2) [4s-1]