Lahore back to winning ways while Quetta slump to a big defeat after a big win in their last game. The PSL caravan continues tomorrow from the same venue in Pindi. We will be there for that one. It's time to sign off for now. Till tomorrow, take care and be well. Remember to sleep tight and snore away happily. See you soon. Bye.
Shaheen Afridi | Translated from Urdu: The credit goes to the boys. Always the first game is tough as we have to manage a few things. The ball was keeping low last game. Our strength is winning games while bowling second. Credit goes to Fakhar and Billings. The lengths were not there in the first game and lots of players did not play in Pakistan, all our cricket was played outside recently and today the execution was right and everyone did well. When we picked Rishad today, we wanted to take a bowler who takes wickets in the middle overs, Wiese unfortunately had some niggles and Rishad was the best option as Asif Afridi was bowling with the new-ball. Billings is a 360-player and he has the ramps and we expected him to start and finish well.
Fakhar Zaman | Player of the Match (translated from Urdu): When you play for a long time, there is tough competition and it takes time. I did not feel I was in full flow, the wicket did not allow me to do that. There was time as Shafique made it easy and the way Billings finished it helped me. It feels good and in my opinion our strength is always our bowling. When we made 200, we felt we would win. If the openers give a good start, especially in T20s, there is wickets in hand and it is easy for the power-hitters. I don't want to take credit though. Their three spinners are one of the best in the competition and they planned and came for me but I too had a plan against them.
Saud Shakeel | Translated from Urdu: I think, we did not select a better team and our strength is spin. You have to give their batters credit too. Fakhar at the top, Mitchell in the middle and at the end Billings. We have a few issues and need to sort it out before the next game. We know Shaheen is a strike bowler, the plan was not to give him wickets, we lost early wickets and it's not easy to chase it down when that happens. We will try to do less mistakes in the next game. Always favours the batters in Pindi, last match it was not helpful for the batters but today it was a typical Pindi pitch.
23:35 Local Time, 18:35 GMT, 00:05 IST: Quetta after a thumping win in their first game have had the tables turned on them tonight.
16.2
Asif Afridi to Faheem Ashraf, out Bowled!! Cleaned up and Lahore have thumped Quetta here. Fired very full on off, Faheem Ashraf is a bit late on the drive, under the bat and the base of off-stump is found. Faheem Ashraf b Asif Afridi 21(18) [4s-3 6s-1]
Asif Afridi to Faheem Ashraf, THATS OUT!! Bowled!!
16.1
Asif Afridi to Faheem Ashraf, no run
Asif Afridi [2.0-0-20-1] is back into the attack
15.6
Haris Rauf to Faheem Ashraf, 1 run, to deep square leg
15.5
Haris Rauf to Faheem Ashraf, FOUR, Faheem Ashraf is getting some late runs. Which will help Quetta's NRR.
15.4
Haris Rauf to Faheem Ashraf, no run, slower-ball and it dips as a low full-toss on off, from round the wicket, Faheem Ashraf gets forward to drive to mid-off
15.3
Haris Rauf to Usman Tariq, 1 run, to cover
15.2
Haris Rauf to Usman Tariq, no run
15.1
Haris Rauf to Usman Tariq, FOUR, full on middle, Usman Tariq makes room to drive, gets a thick outside-edge, Mitchell at wide slip dives to his right and gets a hand on it,
Haris Rauf [2.0-0-25-1] is back into the attack
Timeout! Pointless this.
14.6
Jahandad Khan to Faheem Ashraf, FOUR, 14 off the over.
14.5
Jahandad Khan to Faheem Ashraf, SIX, a juicy low full-toss outside off and Faheem Ashraf does not miss out, stays back and lofts powerfully well back into the stands at long-on