LAHORE LIONS VS SIALKOT STALLIONS

Lahore Lions have won the toss and elected to bat, bad news for fans Malik is not playing today for Stallions, and Lahore will be missing Kamran Akmal, Salman Butt and Ahmed Shazad.

For the last two I can only say good riddance but Lahore Lions will definitely miss Kamran Akmal.

Imran Nazir in a pre match interview said that his team will try to restrict lahore to 125.

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Lahore Lions got off to a flying start they are 61/1 after six overs. Imran farhat has gone berserk and treating Sialkot bowlers with utter disrespect.

It’s 83/2 after 9 overs. It’s 84 /3 now Abdul Razzaq is gone he struggled in the last match and was struggling here too may be he tried to open up to early.

Kamran Younis to Abdul Razzaq, OUT, Gone! tosses up, just outside off, comes down the wicket and lofts it down the ground to long-off, Kashif makes no mistake.

Lahore should make sure that they should not lose any wickets in the next 5 overs, they can still post a huge total and put Sialkot under pressure.

Lahore is under pressure now Sialkot made a good come back.

Lions folded for 150/8 in 20 overs at one stage they it looked as if they will post 180-200, but after Imran farhat’s departure nobody really tried to stay on the wicket a brief cameo by Adnan Reza surged the lions score to 150. It was a disciplined performance by the Sialkot bowlers.

Sialkot has started it’s innings already Imran Nazir had struck one straight six to Razzaq the ball is lost and their is a slight hold up.

It’s 33/2 after 2.3 overs I am not at all thrilled by the Batting of Imran Nazir so far although he has survived he was dropped by Jehangir Mirza but the way he is trying to hit every ball regardless of the line and length that is just ridiculous, he needs to slow down a little bit and at least take his team to safer position and then he can slog every ball. He won’t survive in International cricket with this kind of game.

He has played quite a few ugly shots and so far luck is on his side he is still there.

Imran Nazir finally became victim of his own aggression. Sialkot is in deep trouble they are missing Shoaib Malik, 7 overs are reamining I think Sialkot batsmen should look for 1 boundary at least in every over or else it will be too late.

48 required from 36 balls. Sialkot is still in the game, Shoaib Malik’s younger brother Adeel is the next batsman he can bat last year he played an aggressive match winning innings against Dolphins in the final.

It’s 147/6 only 4 runs required from the last over.

Stallions are the T20 champions for the fourth consecutive year. Shahid Yousaf 22 and Qaisar Abbas 47 played sensibly and guided heir team to victory.

Congratulations to all the Sialkot fans. Lahore Lions despite missing three key players gave a good fight but unfortunately Razzaq couldn’t perform well today.