Nafay, Hosein hand Qalandars second successive loss

Quetta Gladiators clinched a second win from two matches in the PSL 2024 by defeating scrappy defending champions Lahore Qalandars by five wickets. Unheralded Khawaja Nafay showed a lot of certainty against the elegant speed assault of Qalandars. Nafay resisted any semblance of Shaheen Shah Afridi and Haris Rauf by hitting three sixes and four limits. He flicked Zaman Khan to the fine leg limit for the triumphant hurries to polish unbeaten on 60 off 31 balls. Fighters cavorted to 188 for 5 with five balls in excess after Qalandars' 187 for 7. Qalandars lost a second progressive home in the wake of dropping three gets. Qalandars opening player Sahibzada Farhan, dropped on 44, made 62 off 43 balls however it was a blustery unbeaten 45 off 17 balls by Jahandad Khan, who was advanced at No. 5, which pushed them. Jahandad asserted the force in the demise overs by hitting four sixes and three limits. He raised the stakes when he smacked Abrar Ahmed for three sixes in the leg-spinner's last over which went for 23. In spite of the attack, Akeal Hosein, opening the bowling for Combatants, yielded just 17 and gotten two wickets in his four-over spell. Fighters made an energetic beginning to their pursuit because of Jason Roy (24 runs) and Saud Shakeel (40). Roy was dropped two times as they joined for 69, one more sparkling opening stand after their century organization against Zalmi. The two players fell in progressive overs in the wake of ruling the powerplay. Zaman clean-bowled Shakeel with a yorker and Roy swiped fiercely at spinner Raza's short ball that hit the center stump. Qalandars' parttime wicketkeeper Farhan had one more slip by in the field when he dropped previous Fighters chief Sarfaraz Ahmed off the main ball he looked from Rauf.