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Peshawar one of the beautiful cities and the capital of the Pakistani province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Quetta is the Capital of Balochistan the southern province of Pakistan. Quetta was known as the little Paris back in the days, the word Quetta is taken from Balochi Language “Koh E Taha” which means between the Mountains. “Koh” in Balochi means “Mountains” and “Taha” means In between. If you look at Quetta geographically it is surrounded by mountains. Anyhow let’s talk about the respective teams of both the provinces Peshawar Zalmi and Quetta Gladiators, who have produced some nail biting thriller matches in all the seasons of HBL PSL T20. No wonder people call it the “El-Clasico” of the PSL matches whenever they play against each other.   “ El-Clasico is the name given in football to any match between fierce rivals Real Madrid and FC Barcelona”. HEAD TO HEAD Peshawar Zalmi and Quetta Gladiators have played 10 matches against each other so far in the Pakista...

The 1st Eliminator will be played between Peshawar Zalmi vs Quetta Gladiators today at the historic Gaddafi Stadium Lahore, both teams finished with 10 points each in the group stages but because Zalmi had a better net run rate they were placed 3rd and Gladiators 4th. Gaddafi Stadium Peshawar Zalmi has an advantage that their all foreign players have agreed to travel to Pakistan. Gladiators Shane Watson, Kevin Peterson, Jason Roy and Ben Laughlin have shown no interest in travelling to Pakistan.   The replacements for these players are Tom Kohler, J Charles, T Perera, Mahmudullah and Chris Green. Peshawar Zalmi looks stronger than Quetta Gladiators on paper but Gladiators have a very balanced  side too. Will be hell of a Match under the artificial lights with a full crowd. 

Kagiso Rabada got a two match ban for making a physical contact with Australia’s captain Steven Smith which was overturned by the ICC’s code of conduct appeal commissioner Michael Heron. File Photo On Monday Rabada’s hearing was conducted via video conference which lasted more than six hours, Dali Mpofu, the high profile south African legal advocate defended Rabada’s case, initially Rabada had been given three demerit points by the match referee Jeff Crow but the hearing his level 2 charge for physical contact was downgraded to a level 1 charge with a 25% match fee fine, which means his demerit points total dips below the threshold which allowed him to play in the Cape Town test against Australia. Rabada Celebrates Smith's wicket Moosajee South Africa’s team manager who was also present in the hearing along with the South African team captain Faf du Plessis said that, “we have put our side of story in front of the Judicial commissioner now it’s up to him to stand on ...

Usman Khawaja the 1 st Muslim cricket player to represent Australia. He will be tying the knot with Rachel McLellan next month in what is supposed to be a grand affair. Usman and Rachel start dating in 2016, the top order batsman's faith was questioned when he decided to engage with a catholic girl. Usman & Rachel   However, Rachel converted in to Islam after knowing about it and falling in love with Khawaja. Rachel revealed that she had so many misconceptions about Islam initially, all I read was about terrorism in the name of Islam and so many other horrible things and I only listed to what I had heard on the news. Rachel with Usman's Family It was Usman who cleared every misconception of her about Islam. Rachel also said that, it was her own call and nobody put pressure on her to convert. She said that Khawaja’s love story should encourage several to break the shackles of religious discrimination.

It all started on February 22 in Dubai between the defending champions Peshawar Zalmi and the Debut team of the PSL Multan Sultans. PSL has always produced young and new talent for Pakistan Cricket. The list begins From Hassan Ali, Rumman Raees, Asghar, Muhammad Nawaz, Shadab,Fahim Ashraf, Hussain Talat, Muhammad Ifran Jr and the likes of Hasan Khan, they all were noticed in the previous 2 season of the PSL and most have them have already played for the green caps at international level specially Shadab, Hassan Ali and Fahim are regularly part of the team in the limited overs. Now if we talk about PSL 3, it also has produced some extra ordinary talent, the likes of Shaheen Afridi, Agha Salman, Ibtisam Sheikh and Umaid Asif have really impressed with their performances. But it’s not only the young guns who have performed in this PSL the veterans have also produced some top performances. The likes of Shahid Afridi, Sangakkara, Darren Sammy, Muhammad Sami, Kamran Akmal,...

Today is the last day of the league matches of PSL and then the top 4 teams will play the Playoffs of the league.The 1st playoff will be in Dubai and the next two matches will be played in Pakistan. Two teams have already qualified for the playoffs but the other two teams yet to be decided. Quetta Gladiators and Islamabad United have already qualified for the playoffs, Islamabad United tops the table with 14 points followed by Gladiators who ended up with 10 points. Karachi Kings are at 3 rd position in the points table with 9 points same as Multan Sultans who are at the 4 th place in the points table, but because Karachi has a good run rate than Multan so they have been place at 3 rd . Quetta and Multan have played their respective 10 matches of the league stage the other 4 teams have played 9, 9 matches each. They will play their last matches today. Today’s 1 st match will be played between Peshawar Zalmi and Lahore Qalanders , Lahore Qalanders are already out of the...

Darren Sammy the former West Indian Captain is getting famous day by day in the PSL. Sammy got the Captaincy in the 2 nd PSL and turnout to be champions of that edition. At international T20 level Sammy has already won two WT20s for the West Indies. Sammy's File photo of PSL Sammy plays PSL so enthusiastically he mostly bats down the order and has given his team some great finishes. His record in the last 5 overs in PSL is phenomenal; he has scored 304 runs off 149 balls at a strike rate of 204.03. In today’s match against Karachi Kings Sammy smashed 3 consecutive sixes of Irfan Jr’s over, he and Saad Naseem scored 28 runs of that over which is also the most expensive over in the PSL history. Previous expensive over was bowled by Shaun Tait who gave away 26 runs in 1 over. Sammy dedicated today’s victory to Younus Khan which shows how passionate he is about Pakistan Cricket and PSL.

    Muhammad sami is the 2 nd highest wicket taker in the PSL with 34 wickets in 24 matches, now in this PSL3 even at the age of 37 he is still bowling seriously quick deliveries, he is one of the fastest bowlers of the PSL3 along with Wahab and Amir. Sami During PSL 3 The Islamabad United pacer was recently praised by their current team director, former Pakistani Player and coach Waqar Younis. In a recent tweet ( https://twitter.com/waqyounis99/status/970259615018573824 ) Waqar has insisted the Pakistan team selectors to keep an eye on the veteran fast bowler in PSL 3. Waqar also said that Sami is getting better with the age. He also mention Sami as a Fighter in his tweet.