Despite a valiant attempt by Azhar Mahmood 34(15) and Rana Naved 13(5) in the end the Badshahs fell short by six runs of their target, both the batsmen got run out, Badshahs have lost the first final in the best of the three series it was their first loss in the whole tournament and they should blame it all on their top order batsmen at one stage the Badshahs were 50/4 in 9.3 overs not only they were behind in run rate but also lost wickets on regular intervals.
Taufeeq Umar who was playing in place of Imran Farhat played an innings of 43(48) he was agonizingly slow and never took the initiative to take on the bowling not even in the last few overs he kept on exposing the new batsmen to the bowling by taking singles and leaving the burden of hitting boundaries on them, he carried the bat in the end..
Badshah’s should not have changed Imran Farhat they should have brought in Taufeeq umar in place of Hassan Raza who failed for the third consecutive innings, Taufeeq Umar will put imense pressure on his partners as he is never going to go after the bowling himself.
Razzak was the star for Hyderabad Heroes who scored 21 of 12 balls and gave his team a flying start, then he bowled the danger man Imran Nazir in his second over, his first three overs only costed 13 runs and in the final over when only 12 runs were required he started horribly by bowling three wides and giving away 5 runs but on the next ball Rana got run out in an attempt to take a quick single and Razzak bowled Sami on the next ball, and removed Shahid Nazir on the last ball of his over. The match was lost when only seven runs were required of last four balls and Taufeeq umar tried to give strike to Rana when the single was not there he should have gone after Razzak himself.
Earlier on Sami and Mushtaq bowled ecnomically, giving away only 15 and 14 runs in their allotted four overs respectively,all is not lost for the Badshahs they will have to win two matches in a row now to lift the trophy.
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