Sultans vs Qalandars, 16th Match at Lahore, PSL, Apr 26 2025 - Ball by Ball Commentary

Shorter in length, slanted back at him and he manages to squeeze it behind backward point for a run and gets his team over the line. Master of run-chase, Sikandar Raza made the task look easy, LQ win it at a canter

Good length ball slanted into the pads, worked to midwicket for a single and the scores are level

Dragged it back onto the stumps, pace-off shorter delivery right at him, tried to pull that one and instead got it deflected off his midriff to the stumps, doesn't get to hit the winning runs but he has done his job alright

Darts in a bumper outside off, too short and given as a wide; away from the keeper

Wanders down leg and he follows him with a length ball at him, full face of the bat and driven to mid-off

High cognitive dexterity into this shot, exposes his stumps and ramps the low full-toss over thee keeper's head for a six, miss that, it crashes middle-stump, but he nailed it, high risk high reward

Searing yorker into his toes as he steps leg-side, through his legs to the keeper

Drags his length back and the ball holds its line wide of off, pulled across the line to the acreage at deep midwicket, Ubaid is livid with himself

Oh boy! That left a dent. Shorter on middle and leg, brings his bat down and languidly carted over deep square for a six; made it look ridiculously easy, trademark Mitchell shot

Short, wide and flashes a cut past point for a four, that'll calm both of them. Cracking shot, waited for it and timed to perfection, Shah gave too much width on this occasion, costly errors

Slackens the pace, annoys him with a slow shorter length ball that never really arrives at him, couldn't time his shot

Pace-off bumper around the line off, attempted upper-cut

Steps leg-side to access gaps behind square on off. Shorter in length angled into middle and off, curled in, no problems for Raza who is sighting the ball like a football now, quick hands, deflected away behind backward point

Couldn't get underneath, barrage of slower ones, shorter around the line off, he jockeys across off and pulls it across the line, bottom half of the blade

Another pace-off short of a length ball meandering away, up and over cover-point, man at deep patrolling the region sprints across to cut it off

Forced into the covers for a single

Pace-off and a little shortish around the line off, knocked down to long-on

Good length and slanted across off, that has gone out of the solar system! Clears front leg and hits it with gusto over long-on, full swing of the bat, couldn't have connected any better! Amazing, even Usman can't help himself from applauding that shot, such a fine hitter

Over the wicket, slower and fuller and touch wider of off stump, drags it across the line towards cow corner

Ends the over well, near yorker on middle, neatly swiped through the line to long-off's right