Pakistan Super League: Babar Azam kicked Shadab Khan’s Islamabad United out of the league. Shadab Khan was made the captain of the Pakistan T20 team for a series in the past.
Image Credit source: Peshawar Zalmi twitter
Lahore. Recently, Shadab Khan was made the captain of the Pakistan team for the T20 series against Afghanistan. Babar Azam and Shaheen Shah Afridi were rested. As soon as he became the captain, Babar Azam also taught the lesson of captaincy to Shadab. Babar not only taught a lesson, but also broke Shadab’s dream in the Pakistan Super League. Babar, the regular captain of the Pakistan team, overpowered Shadab Khan in the Pakistan Super League.
Babar’s Peshawar Zalmi ousted Shadab’s Islamabad United by 12 runs in the first eliminator of the league. Batting first, Peshawar scored 183 runs for 8 wickets. Captain Babar scored 64 runs in 39 balls with 10 fours.
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Big partnership between Masood and Hales
Chasing the target, Islamabad recovered after a bad start, but Shadab succumbed to Babar’s experience. At one time the victory of Islamabad was clearly visible. There was an amazing partnership between opener Alex Hales and Shoaib Masood. Together they took the score from 13 runs to 128 runs.
Babar snatched victory
Babar saved the match getting out of hand with his amazing captaincy. Aamer Jamal broke the big partnership by bowling 128 runs to Masood. Islamabad got a second blow in 14.1 overs. After this, Shadab’s team had lost 6 wickets for 154 runs in 18.3 overs. Shoaib hit 60 runs and Hales hit 57 runs. After this, Shadab kept the front till the end, but even his unbeaten 26 runs in 12 balls could not give victory to Islamabad.
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Story changed after 16th over
Babar snatched victory from Shadab in the last over. After 16 overs, Islamabad needed 47 runs off 24 balls and had 7 wickets in hand. Hales also remained at the crease after scoring a half-century. From here the victory seemed to be going in Islamabad’s account, but the story changed with the first ball of the very next over. Aamer Jamal dismissed Hales. Faheem Ashraf was also run out in his over.
thrill of the last over
After this, Islamabad needed 37 runs from 18 balls to win. In the next over, Peshawar made the match very exciting by giving just 7 runs. Islamabad needed 30 runs to win in the last 2 overs. Shadab was batting stormy, but in this over, Salman Irshad made Munro his victim. Islamabad did not score 24 runs in the last over to win and Babar managed to win the important match of Pakistan Super League.
