PSL 9: Lahore Qalandars vs Peshawar Zalmi: Rain drama will continue

PSL 9

RAWALPINDI patient rain in Rawalpindi and Islamabad has increased the worries in the Lahore Qalandars camp as in case of a flop of their match against Peshawar Zalmi on Saturday autumn at the Pindi Stadium, the defending titleholders ’ chances of making it to PSL 9 playoffs would dwindle indeed further.

The cast suggests that there will be no reprieve in rain going into Saturday morning. In all liability, the day match between Zalmi and Qalandars will be affected by rain. In that case, Qalandars will get their first point. Qalandars so far have lost all their six matches, flaunting poor form in all departments of the game, especially in the bowling department which has been considered their strongest point in PSL 9.

A flop on Saturday would mean that Qalandars could get outside of seven points from ten jaunts which conceivably would not be enough to take them to playoffs.

Qalandars captain Shaheen Afridi, who was also named as the captain of the public platoon ahead of the five-match down T20 series against New Zealand many months back, is passing a agony. As a leader (both Pakistan and Qalandars), he has lost ten out of 11 matches.
For Zalmi, indeed one point from the anticipated flop in Rawalpindi would be enough to keep them alive and in the company of the top three brigades on the table. From five games, Zalmi has gathered six points so far.

The platoon’s forefront Babar Azam is going through a grandiloquent patch having scored a century on his way to accumulating 330 runs with a stunning normal of over 82 runs per innings. Saim Ayub( 175 runs) in five innings has shown casts of important stroke- timber. still, he has yet to get into full bloom.