Peshawar Zalmi crush Karachi Kings by seven wickets

DUBAI:  Peshawar Zalmi defeated Karachi Kings by seven wickets in the third T20 encounter of the Pakistan Super League 2017 at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium on Friday.

Eoin Morgan steered his team to a convincing victory with nine balls remaining. Morgan remained notout with 80 runs from  57 balls. Morgan along with Dawid Malan added 71 runs for the fourth wicket unbeaten partnership. Malan contributed 22 notout.

Earlier, Karachi Kings were restricted to 118 for seven by Peshawar Zalmi. After being put into bat, Karachi Kings made a disastrous start losing four wickets for only 12 runs as Chris Gayle, Shahzaib Hasan, Babar Azam and Kumar Sangakkara dismissed cheaply.

However, Shoaib Malik and Ravi Bopara  came to rescue and both added 59 runs for the fifth wicket and later Kieron Pollard batted well but could reach only 118.

Shoaib made 44, and Bopara scored 33 while Pollard remained not out on 27.

For Peshawar Zalmi, Off-break bowler Mohammad Hafeez and left-arm fast bowler Wahab Riaz claimed two wickets each for just seven runs and 23, respectively.