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00:54Hello everyone and welcome to Gaddafi Stadium here in Lahore.
00:59For match nine, the Guetta Gladiators taking on Islamabad United.
01:07Now the toss has come and gone and the Guetta Gladiators won that and have elected to bat.
01:17The Guetta Gladiators for today, just the one change, Bevan Jacobs comes in for the injured Riley Rousseau.
01:24He's a New Zealander, 6'6", huge hitter of the ball.
01:29So looking forward to seeing Bevan Jacobs on debut in the PSL.
01:35And the Islamabad United team, which we'll get to in a second, have made one change also.
01:42Chris Green, the Australian, comes in for Richard Gleeson.
01:46So Chris Green, of course, an off spinner from Australia.
01:50And I think that is a very good move for this day game that is just about to get underway.
01:56Three, two, one.
02:00Let's play.
02:05All right, here we go, match nine.
02:10Let me tell you, this is a brave move.
02:15And a bit of swing, and it's been swung away.
02:18That is a sensational shot.
02:21It was full, it swung, but hit through the line.
02:24And that is the first six of the day.
02:27Already there is a lucky one.
02:29We'll get the scholarship.
02:34Good shot.
02:36Very, very good shot.
02:37It was short and wide, but you've still got to hit it in the gap, and that's what he's done.
02:44Swatted away.
02:47Went with the swing.
02:48Is it six or is it four?
02:51The Alex Walsh got both arms up, indicating six.
02:58Another one.
03:00Same result.
03:02Now they are turning it on.
03:04Kota Gladiators.
03:05Three down, 31 without loss.
03:11Nice shot.
03:13Nice shot again from Shamil.
03:16Yeah, it goes with a similar option.
03:18A pace-off delivery.
03:23Away to the leg side this time.
03:25Won't be six.
03:26Couple of bounces.
03:27Another boundary.
03:28It's into the 40s.
03:33Pulled away.
03:34Runs are coming.
03:35Thicken fast now.
03:36As the bat of Saud Shaquille this time.
03:38Getting a maximum.
03:40Salman Irshad gets the welcome.
03:46Leading edge.
03:48Gone.
03:49Close to face to the bat.
03:50A little early maybe.
03:51And goes flying to points.
03:54And that's the end of Shamil Hussein.
03:56He's got his team off to a very, very quick start.
03:59But this occasion just closing the face a little bit too early.
04:04Haider Ali taking a fairly simple catch just above his head.
04:07He's pumped up.
04:08They needed that this Lamabad United.
04:11Salman Irshad extremely happy.
04:13Quitter now.
04:1450 for one.
04:19This time over cover.
04:20He'll get runs for that.
04:21That's a good way to finish the over and the power play.
04:25Quitter Gladiators after six overs.
04:28Go to 60 for one.
04:31Catch it.
04:32Catch it is a call.
04:34Will it sail or it just goes past?
04:36Maybe one bounce.
04:38For a moment Shaquille thought he was in it.
04:41Good effort though.
04:45Price is luck this time and it is high in the air.
04:47No timing.
04:49Shadab with the wicket and that too of Captain South Shaquille.
04:58Just outside the island inviting the option.
05:01And why not?
05:02It's a Vigotel smart wicket if ever there was one.
05:06A much needed breakthrough.
05:09And the captain does the business.
05:11For Islamabad United.
05:13And it's the opposing captain Shaquille.
05:16He goes for 42.
05:17Goethe 71 for two.
05:20Need a partnership and that too in quick time.
05:22Because shots like that will help.
05:25That is some hit.
05:28Proper six over mid-wicket.
05:30Love this.
05:32Kept his head down.
05:33And he knew just by the connection that he knew exactly where that was going.
05:38Probably visualising it.
05:39Just motoring over the boundary line out there.
05:43Backs away.
05:44He hits it over the top.
05:47That's his area.
05:48Inside out.
05:54This one.
05:55Legside in the air.
05:56Chance in the deep and taken.
05:59Price is luck clearing Legside.
06:02This time.
06:03Not so.
06:04A couple of lusty blows.
06:06And he was looking to go big yet again.
06:09And it's the experience of Imad Wazim.
06:11Just tosses it up.
06:13Doesn't give him any sort of freedom to free his arms.
06:17And all he does is he finds the boundary field out on the leg side.
06:21It's 87 for two.
06:25Bollem.
06:26The perfect leg spinner.
06:28Pitches middle.
06:29Hits off.
06:31Islamabad United are doing that with their leader.
06:35Leading from the front.
06:37Shadab Khan.
06:38Pitching middle and off.
06:40And hitting the top of off.
06:41And he will be extremely delighted with that.
06:45Ben McDermott.
06:46It's a come and go stage for him.
06:49Guetta 92 for four.
06:53And comes and goes.
06:55First delivery.
06:56Just pushes it back.
06:59What a soft dismissal.
07:00But Shadab on the roll.
07:02And he'll be on a hat trick.
07:05Held in the pitch.
07:06It was another leg spinner.
07:09Just pushing at it with hard hands.
07:12Not going to get an easier catch than that.
07:14So McDermott goes clean bold.
07:17And Bevan Jacobs goes.
07:18He's caught and bowled in succession.
07:2192 for five now.
07:26This time on the onside.
07:28Maximum there for Hasan Nawaz.
07:30So the break has done well for him.
07:32And now he's going after the bowling.
07:35This is a fantastic hit.
07:40Four overs to go.
07:41There's been a real acceleration now by the gladiators.
07:46It's exactly what they needed.
07:47Some real momentum going into these last few overs.
07:54Smashed over cover.
07:56That is a brilliant shot.
07:58It was a slower ball.
07:59Length ball.
08:00And Nawaz just showing his talent.
08:03One fifty one off five.
08:05For five.
08:08Oh, I didn't get that right.
08:11Full toss.
08:12It's been hit into the gap.
08:14Another boundary.
08:19Oh, and hit straight and hard.
08:22What about the hands through that ball?
08:24It was nearly a Yorker, but got underneath it.
08:27That is a superb shot.
08:31Oh, and this time over cover.
08:36That is brilliant from Nawaz.
08:40And that is 50 now off just 28 deliveries.
08:48Yeah, Deepi is there.
08:50And that's hit away again.
08:52This is a great little burst here from Nawaz.
09:01Oh, that is very well bowled, but the batting was even better.
09:05Superb.
09:09Good Yorker.
09:11Very good delivery.
09:12They'll have to scramble back for two, surely.
09:15And they'll get it as well.
09:17So a very, very good innings there by the gladiators.
09:21They finish on 183 for five off their 20 overs.
09:2642 for South Shaquille of just 26.
09:29Shamil, 21 of 15.
09:31Nafi, 21 of 15.
09:32Then came a little slide.
09:34Shadab with a couple of wickets.
09:36But Hassan Nawaz yet again.
09:3866 of 36.
09:40And Tom Curran, the partnership of 90.
09:43Three wickets for Shadab.
09:45Three for 23.
09:45Imad, one for 37.
09:47Hitchat, one for 42.
09:49And 183 for five.
09:53United are going to need 184 runs to win on a slowish pitch.
10:00Need something similar today.
10:03Alzari Joseph down the leg side.
10:07It won't be runs, but it'll be leg buys off the thigh pad.
10:14Well, bowled, but flicked away.
10:17That's a nice shot.
10:18It really is.
10:19Coming into middle and leg stump, but just helping it on its way.
10:25Whoa, that was a beautifully hit.
10:28It was a short delivery from Alzari Joseph.
10:31And it got the treatment.
10:36Smashed through the offside this time.
10:38This is better.
10:45Well, that's going to be another boundary.
10:47This is good now from United.
10:50Getting some nice momentum into their run chase now.
10:58Well, he's got some talent, this young man.
11:00And we've seen a six over mid-wicket, a flash-through point.
11:05Now he's come down the track and smashed Tom Curran through mid-wicket.
11:12Another good shot.
11:14This time over cover.
11:15We're seeing the full repertoire.
11:22Oh, what a shot.
11:24What a welcome to Aparad Emmett.
11:26He's been dispatched way into the stands by Conway.
11:33When it is that crisp sound off the bat, you know they've middled it well.
11:41With given in the air, gone.
11:44He's got the toe end of the bat and eventually he has the final laugh.
11:48Emmett Daniel takes the catch.
11:50Conway would be thinking he really worked hard to get to that ball.
11:59Looks like he slows it up a little bit.
12:00Just reaching for it, never in control.
12:03Just an easy top edge.
12:05And Ahmed Daniel does the rest.
12:07Novigotel, smart wicket.
12:09Has Llamabad lose their first?
12:11He knows.
12:12Devin knows he could have...
12:13What could have been.
12:15Llamabad now.
12:1644 for one after five.
12:20It doesn't get all the way, but he gets the boundary going.
12:24One bounce.
12:25Talented young man, Samir Minas.
12:31Nicely done.
12:32Nicely done.
12:33This time, square of the wicket.
12:35Samir Minas taking Ahmed Daniel on.
12:41Oh, he's gone right through the googly.
12:44And straight into that middle stump.
12:46Abraar, second strike.
12:53Takes a little bit of purchase.
12:56Another Vigotel, smart wicket.
12:57Taking the top of leg stump.
13:00Andreas Haas, he's got to depart now.
13:03He couldn't get going today.
13:05And Islamabad United now, 61 for two.
13:11Captain's comes into the attack and he's been put away.
13:14Shut up, gets a boundary.
13:17That's a very different kind of change.
13:22This is the over.
13:23They've got to make out space on and smashed away.
13:31Oh, Legs side.
13:32He's got all of that and more.
13:34That has sailed away.
13:39It's an area of the game where Tom Curran can really play a massive hand.
13:43Using his change-ups.
13:47And smashes that.
13:49Flatbass that.
13:50Over mid-off.
13:51One bounce into the fence.
13:53Expensive over.
13:5522 off.
13:56108 for two.
14:02That partnership now turns into that landmark 50 of 37.
14:08An important one.
14:08And shut ourselves up in the order.
14:11Also, Sameer Minas is such a brilliant young talent.
14:14You mentioned how he was under-19 Asia Cup, in which Pakistan won.
14:18And now, amongst the big boys, he's just showing some class.
14:26There he goes.
14:27Down on one knee and launches it into the mid-wicket area.
14:31That's the one he was looking for.
14:38Here we go again with a big one.
14:40So Shadab is looking to wrap this up.
14:43What a knock.
14:44Promoting himself in the order.
14:46And getting close to a half century.
14:54Very well played.
14:55Very well played by Shadab.
14:599.50 for Shadab Khan in HBL PSL.
15:05What a time to get it.
15:11They'll need more than one wicket.
15:15And there you go.
15:16Well, meanwhile, Shadab is at work.
15:18So is Sameer.
15:20They're looking to wrap this up.
15:21What a partnership this is.
15:26Makes that into a low full toss and puts it away for another maximum.
15:31Nothing Usman thought it can do.
15:35Long goes big.
15:37Long straight.
15:39Thank you very much.
15:41100 partnership.
15:47That is smoked.
15:49Absolutely smoked through cover point.
15:52Shadab is on fire.
15:55168 for two.
15:58Oh, the ramp.
16:01He's...
16:01Well, he's showing off now.
16:04That is another brilliant shot from a talented young man.
16:11There it is.
16:13The winning run.
16:13And what a way to finish it.
16:16This young man.
16:17I'll tell you what.
16:18Sameer Minhas.
16:2019 years of age.
16:21Hits the winning runs with a magnificent six.
16:24And finishes on 82 not out of only 48 deliveries.
16:29Well played.
16:30Islamabad United.
16:32That is a fantastic run chase.
16:34Well deserved winners tonight.
16:37I'll talk about a confidence booster from a batting perspective.
16:41It was a decent start between Conway and Sameer in their partnership.
16:46Post-E-Kame didn't stay too long.
16:49But it's the partnership between Sameer and Shadab that simply broke the back of this innings.
16:55Simply outstanding.
16:56Take a bow.
16:58Let's check the bowling figures out.
17:00Six bowlers used tonight by the Gladiators.
17:02Gladiators two wickets to Abra.
17:05Probably the pick of the bowlers.
17:07The best economy rate.
17:08And getting the two breakthroughs as well.
17:11Tom Curran.
17:12Expensive tonight.
17:1313 runs per over he went for.
17:16So I've got some work to do that bowling attack.
17:20Another good game we've seen here.
17:22Match nine.
17:23The Gladiators won the toss.
17:25Elected to bat first.
17:26It was a day game.
17:27I think that was the right decision.
17:28183 for five.
17:30Now Wales was brilliant.
17:3166 not out.
17:32Another talented young man.
17:34The captain, Saud.
17:3542 as well.
17:37Tom Curran chipped in nicely.
17:39But in the end, United did it really comfortably thanks to that great partnership.
17:43And they win by eight wickets.
17:46All right.
17:47Let's check out the points table.
17:48As I said, an important game.
17:50Three games now played by Islamabad and Guetta.
17:54Three points and two points.
17:56Still early days.
18:22Three points and two points and two points.
18:27Have a great time.
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