Zalmi are the one franchise in Pakistan’s premier home T20 match that has crushed Sultans twice this season.
Sultans have already certified for the playoffs with six wins from eight video games and Zalmi moved nearer to a spot within the closing 4 with 9 factors and two video games in hand.
Babar and Ayub smacked Sultans’ tempo and spin as they raised a fast 84-run stand at 12-an-over.
Mir leads the bowling chart with 18 wickets, however his team-mate Mohammad Ali, who has 14 wickets, had a forgetful day towards Ayub and Babar as he returned with costly figures of 0-46 off his three overs.
Mir pulled again Zalmi together with his sharp legbreaks as he dismissed Tom Kohler-Cadmore (5) after which obtained the important thing wicket of Babar in his final over by having him clear bowled earlier than Rovman Powell (23) and Jamal (12) performed little cameos within the final 5 overs.
Captain Mohammad Rizwan (32) could not beat Jamal’s throw off his comply with by whereas Asif Ali timed his bounce to perfection on the sting of the boundary and plucked a superb catch to dismiss Dawid Malan (19) within the twelfth over.
However Iftikhar and Jordan almost pulled off a victory for Sultans with their blazing 75-run stand off simply 28 balls however Zalmi’s pacers nearly managed to dangle on within the final three overs.
