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Cricket South Africa is using the series against India to explore the possibility of playing music in between each delivery of a T20 match

Sidharth Monga in Centurion21-Feb-2018Manish Pandey works Tabraiz Shamsi to deep fine leg for a single. “I’ve Got The Power” plays on the stadium’s PA system. Suresh Raina pushes the next ball straight to cover for a dot. “Here Comes The Hotstepper” blares out. Welcome to the new world of music after every ball in T20 cricket, assuming the paying public cares for it.Yes, songs have been played on a cricket ground in between overs and after boundaries for a while now. But Cricket South Africa is using the T20Is against India to trial the idea of playing music between deliveries. At the end of the series, the ticketholders will be asked to participate in an online survey and the decision to stop or keep going will be made based on the feedback.”Twenty20 is played in festive environment,” a CSA official said. “It is followed by families and kids. We wanted to see if our public wants more of the music and dance. We will of course listen to the people and see what the survey says. If they like it, we might even get a professional DJ at our grounds for T20.”
The official said CSA was not taking the lead from what happened in the Trans-Tasman tri-series. Music between deliveries was tried during a game at Eden Park in Auckland last week and it received harsh criticism from the fans, including those on Twitter.
As in South Africa, the cricket board in New Zealand is in charge of the music on game day. The negative response to the experiment brought immediate results: the music was reduced in the subsequent matches of the tri-series.”NZC is in charge of game day enhancements such as music, and they turned it down as soon as they were informed,” Eden Park tweeted in response to the complaints against the too-frequent music.

The two most powerful men in the BCCI – board president Anurag Thakur and secretary Ajay Shirke – have told the Supreme Court of India that the Lodha Committee does not have the “expertise” to administer cricket in the country

Nagraj Gollapudi06-Dec-2016The two most powerful men in the BCCI – board president Anurag Thakur and secretary Ajay Shirke – have told the Supreme Court of India that the Lodha Committee does not have the “expertise” to administer cricket in the country.Thakur and Shirke also said removing office bearers at both the BCCI and state-association levels, as proposed by the committee in its latest status report, will “paralyse” cricket administration and create “chaos” in the game.In separate affidavits, albeit with similar content, filed in the court this week, Thakur and Shirke said the committee was not interested in meeting the pair despite the court asking for the same in its last order, issued on October 21.Thakur said that the committee’s secretary, Gopal Sankaranarayanan, informed BCCI CEO Rahul Johri in an email on November 29 that the committee will offer “further instructions” to the board, following the court’s next hearing. The court was scheduled to hear the case on December 5, but had to defer it to December 9 after TS Thakur, the Chief Justice of India, part of the three-judge bench hearing the case, was absent on the 5th.Thakur said in his affidavit: “The Lodha Committee has not complied with the directions of this Hon’ble Court and its inaction has had a crippling effect on the BCCI and has hurt India cricket and the BCCI tremendously. The present status report also underscores the fact that the Lodha Committee does not want to interact with the BCCI or its office bearers in order to understand the complexities of Indian cricket administration. The said status report in fact acknowledges that the Committee does not have the expertise to administer Indian cricket.”

BCCI against the ‘observer’

The BCCI has strongly objected to the Lodha Committee’s proposal that an “observer” be appointed by the court to oversee the daily financial and business transactions of the board.
The committee had recommended GK Pillai, a former home secretary in the federal government, for the role of the observer, saying he could “supervise the administration of the BCCI [via] the CEO.” The CEO, Rahul Johri, the committee said, would direct all the daily administration of the BCCI without needing approval from the board’s office bearers as per the existing norm. The committee also said Pillai’s appointment was necessary in order to help “confine” its own role to drafting policy to provide direction.
Thakur and Shirke have called the committee’s move “erroneous” and “misconceived”. “The Lodha Committee had asked for and been granted various additional powers for supervision of the affairs of the BCCI. It now cannot, after disregarding the orders of this Hon’ble Court, seek to vary the same unilaterally,” Thakur said in his affidavit.
Thakur also said Pillai is not qualified to be a cricket administrator: “The Lodha Committee cannot shift the responsibility of overseeing the affairs of the BCCI to another third party who does not have any expertise of running cricket in India and has no established administrative credentials in this field.”

With the committee not providing the required guidance to the BCCI, things had come “to a grinding halt” and had “tremendously hurt” the image of Indian cricket, according to Thakur.In its third status report, submitted on November 18 in the court, the committee highlighted that the BCCI and the state associations had failed to implement various decisions approved by the court in its July 18 judgement. The committee mentioned that many ineligible office bearers continued as administrators in clear defiance of the court order.In his affidavit, Thakur objected to the committee’s stance. “It is denied that the BCCI has not complied with the directions of this Hon’ble Court. The efforts made by the BCCI office bearers to effectuate compliance have already been set out.”Thakur and Shirke also disagreed with the eligibility criteria listed by the committee in its November status report. The committee had stated that an office bearer would be disqualified if he or she was not a citizen of India, was 70 years or older, was a minister or a government servant, held any office or post in any other sports association, or had been an office bearer of the BCCI for a cumulative period of nine years.The BCCI bosses have said that these criteria were not part of the original Lodha report, which was released in January. “Removal of democratically elected office bearers of the BCCI or State Cricket Associations who have been elected in accordance with the statute governing their elections will not result in any benefit to the game of cricket and shall instead paralyse administration immediately creating great chaos in the game,” Thakur said.”It is further submitted that the disqualifications proposed by the Committee in para four (of the status report) are not a part of the memorandum of either the BCCI or the State Cricket Associations in totality. In fact some of the recommendations set out in para four of the status report are not there in the memorandum proposed to be adopted by the Lodha Committee and have only now been added.”According to Thakur, removing the office bearers of the BCCI would also have a direct and adverse impact on India’s standing in global cricket, specifically at the ICC where the BCCI has been regarded as a powerbroker over the last 15 years. “The recommendations made by the Committee do not appear to be in the interest of cricket. These shall have the impact of severely weakening the cricket administration all over the country and shall make the BCCI a weak organisation that is not able to represent itself in international forums,” Thakur’s affidavit said.

A round-up of the Ranji Trophy Group B matches on October 31, 2015

ESPNcricinfo staff31-Oct-2015
ScorecardFile photo – Gurkeerat Singh finished with match figures of 22.4-5-52-9•PTI

Punjab completed an easy seven-wicket win against Andhra within two days in their Group B match in Patiala, to move to second in the points table. In a low-scoring encounter, 16 wickets fell on the second day as Punjab romped to a target of 67 in the 20th over, with Mandeep Singh top-scoring with an unbeaten 22.Punjab were bowled out for 147 after beginning the day on 128 for 7, with Prasanth Kumar taking two of the three wickets to finish with figures of 4 for 14. Andhra began their second innings in sprightly fashion, their openers – Srikar Bharat (39) and Prasanth (29) – adding 53 to cut the deficit to 14.However, Rajwinder Singh and Sarabjit Ladda chipped away at the top order as Andhra struggled to form substantial partnerships; the last six wickets contributed just 24 runs. Gurkeerat Singh followed his four-for in the first innings with a five-wicket haul in the second, taking the last five wickets to fall to restrict Andhra’s lead to 66.
ScorecardTamil Nadu dominated the second day and took control of their Group B game against Railways in Delhi. Tamil Nadu added 40 runs to their overnight score of 288 for 6 before being bowled out for 328, Baba Indrajith scoring 30 of those to end with a career-best 151. Anureet Singh added two wickets to his tally to end with figures of 5 for 104.Aswin Crist threw Railways’ top order in disarray with three quick wickets to reduce them to 20 for 3. However, opener V Cheluvaraj and Arindam Ghosh (48) offered resistance with a 104-run stand before another clump of wickets towards the end of the day left Railways tottering at 129 for 7 at stumps, with J Kousik picking up 3 for 7 in six overs. Cheluvaraj remained unbeaten with a 158-ball 63.
ScorecardFive-wicket hauls from Praveen Kumar and Saurabh Kumar put Uttar Pradesh into the ascendancy against Gujarat in Valsad, taking a 336-run lead by stumps on the second day. The pair helped bowl Gujarat out for 100 in 31.4 overs after Uttar Pradesh were dismissed for 273 in their first innings.Captain Parthiv Patel – one of only three batsmen to reach double figures – top-scored with a handy 39 but couldn’t prevent a match-turning collapse. Gujarat gave themselves a slim chance by taking seven wickets in the second innings but Uttar Pradesh scored 163, stretching the lead to 336. Umang Sharma struck six fours and a six in his 66 and also formed a 66-run third-wicket partnership with Ali Murtaza. Axar Patel picked up four wickets in his 21 overs.
ScorecardDeepak Hooda’s quick-fire fifty highlighted another attritional day and gave Baroda a slight edge in their match against Madhya Pradesh in Vadodara. Aditya Waghmode also contributed with a patient 64 as Baroda finished the second day at 188 for 4, 81 behind Madhya Pradesh’s first-innings total of 269. Waghmode combined with Hooda and Yusuf Pathan (27*) in stands worth 80 and 49 respectively to take Baroda closer to a first-innings lead.Earlier in the day, handy lower-order contributions took Madhya Pradesh to 269 after beginning the day at 198 for 7. Ishwar Pandey struck three sixes and two fours in his 16-ball 34 before he was the last man out off the bowling of Swapnil Singh, who finished with 4 for 61.

It took just 42.2 overs on the third day for West Indies to clinch the second Test, sweep the series, win six Tests in a row and inflict another surrender to spin on Zimbabwe

The Report by Siddhartha Talya22-Mar-2013
Scorecard and ball-by-ball details
Shane Shillingford was unstoppable in his hometown•WICB Media Photo/Randy Brooks

It took just 42.2 overs on the third day for West Indies to clinch the second Test, sweep the series, win six Tests in a row and inflict another surrender to spin on Zimbabwe.The hosts promptly declared during a 15-minute rain delay in the morning, and a solid start from the Zimbabwe batsmen was a hugely misleading prelude to what was to follow. Once again, Zimbabwe failed to sustain a promising phase of play long enough against a superior opposition. Shane Shillingford was their nemesis again, picking up 10 wickets in the match, several of which owed to the unsettling bounce he was able to extract from the track in his hometown.The strategy for West Indies was simple, having successfully employed it in the first Test and the first innings in Dominica. The spinners, Shillingford, brought on in the 13th over, and Marlon Samuels, who picked up six wickets in the game, got the ball to turn, and more crucially bounce, from the off stump, surrounded the Zimbabwe batsmen with close-in fielders, who snapped up what came their way or had their team-mates in the outfield ready for opportunities borne out of a desperate attempt to find a release.Vusi Sibanda and Brendan Taylor countered that pressure temporarily by sweeping Shillingford, Sibanda even struck him for six over deep square leg, but it was only a matter of time before the spitting bounce that proved Zimbabwe’s undoing throughout the series returned to trouble them. Taylor was caught on the glove when Shillingford held his length back and caught at short leg.

Smart stats

• West Indies’ victory is their sixth in a row. They have won two each against New Zealand, Bangladesh and Zimbabwe. Since the start of 2012, they have won six and lost four matches (two draws).

• The win is West Indies’ sixth in eight Tests against Zimbabwe. The two draws came in Tests played in Zimbabwe.

• Shane Shillingford’s haul of 19 wickets is the highest by a West Indies bowler in a two-Test series. He is also the first West Indian and 14th overall to take three or more five-fors in a two-Test series.

• Shillingford’s 10 for 93 is his career best and the best bowling performance for West Indies against Zimbabwe, surpassing his nine-wicket haul in the previous Test in Barbados.

• Shillingford’s 10 for 93 is also the fifth-best performance by a West Indian spinner.

• The win is West Indies’ second by an innings since 2009. It is only their sixth innings win since 2000 (two each against Bangladesh, Zimbabwe and England).

Taylor’s wicket marked the start of the spinners coming to dominate the innings, but Tino Best and Darren Sammy did their bit to end Zimbabwe’s early resistance. Best was guilty of bowling too short, and Sibanda had cashed in, slashing hard through the off side and even driving handsomely for boundaries when the ball was pitched up, as he did against Shannon Gabriel. But Best went round the wicket to Hamilton Masakadza, who was also set, got him to seemingly glove one down the leg side, reviewed the “not out” decision and got it overturned. A possible reason for the third umpire to reverse the original call was a change in rotation of the ball as it reached Masakadza’s glove, indicating there may have been contact.Minutes earlier, in the same over, Masakadza had successfully reviewed another caught-behind decision, this time having been given out, though the evidence, in the absence of Hot Spot, was again inconclusive.Just two balls after Taylor had been sent back, Sibanda played a rash shot across the line to Sammy to be trapped in front, his failed review confirming the ball would have clipped the bails.With the top order out of the way, Shillingford and Samuels eased past those that came after. Sean Williams got a top-edge while trying to play a cut against Shillingford, to be caught at point, and the capitulation picked up speed following the lunch break. Craig Ervine survived 34 balls but was caught brilliantly by Chris Gayle diving to his left at slip to pouch an edge with one hand. The extra bounce in the track brought the backward short leg into play and Malcolm Waller found that fielder when he tried to work Samuels away off the back foot. Shillingford had, six overs earlier, dismissed Tino Mawoyo, forced to bat at No.7 after missing a good part of the second day’s play, in the same region.With Waller, perhaps Zimbabwe’s best batsman in the limited-overs series this tour, back in the pavilion, West Indies required just four more overs to wrap up the innings. Graeme Cremer’s stand-out shot was a six over long-on with his eyes staring at the ground at the point of, as well as after, impact, but inside-edged a catch towards midwicket trying the same stroke to give Shillingford his fifth wicket. It was also Shillingford’s tenth for the match and 19th for the series – the best returns in a two-match series for a West Indies bowler, going past Courtney Walsh’s 16 in New Zealand in 1994-95.Paul Jarvis and Tendai Chatara lasted just two deliveries, Samuels hastening the end of a mismatch that continued West Indies’ best run of consecutive victories in Tests – now six – since 1988.

Essex look certain to open their Division Two campaign with victory against Gloucestershire after their bowlers dominated the second day’s play at Chelmsford.

06-Apr-2012
ScorecardEssex look certain to open their Division Two campaign with victory against Gloucestershire after their bowlers dominated the second day’s play at Chelmsford.After bowling out Gloucestershire for 180 to establish a first-innings lead of 184 and enforcing the follow on, Essex reduced them to 55 for five in their second, still requiring 129 to avoid an innings defeat. Gloucestershire had no answer to a pace attack that displayed both venom and accuracy, with the ever-reliable David Masters leading the way. Masters, a few days short of his 34th birthday and following a season when he took 93 wickets, has so far picked up five more in the match.Graham Napier sent Gloucestershire on the slippery slope in their second innings in an opening spell of 3-20. Among his scalps was Richard Coughtrie, the opener, who bagged a pair, his second duck spanning 33 deliveries.Masters then nipped in for the wickets of Dan Housego and Hamish Marshall before bad light spared a possible defeat in two days, coming to their rescue with 15 overs still remaining.Gloucestershire’s first innings was also a grim affair. It was something of a surprise that they arrived at lunch on 82-2 considering the torrid time they experienced at the hands of Maurice Chambers and Masters. Both beat the bat on numerous occasions without reward, while several edges dropped just short or wide of fielders or flew over the slip cordon.In that pre-lunch session Chambers found enough swing to have Coughtrie caught low down at second slip and Tymal Mills roared in to york Chris Dent for a gutsy 38. But in the afternoon session, bowlers were completely dominant as the innings disintegrated and the remaining wickets fell before tea.Masters started the procession when he had Alex Gidman caught behind during a nine-over spell costing 18. In between, the impressive Chambers got rid of Marshall and Ian Cockbain to pave the way for the powerfully-built Mills to make further inroads.Sheer pace was his major weapon as he trapped Will Gidman leg before and forced James Fuller to play on.

South Africa allrounder Ryan McLaren has been signed by Kings XI Punjab for IPL 2011

ESPNcricinfo staff29-Mar-2011South Africa allrounder Ryan McLaren has been signed by Kings XI Punjab for IPL 2011. Punjab were seeking replacements following injuries to Stuart Broad and Dmitri Mascarenhas, and have settled on McLaren.McLaren’s IPL assignments made him unavailable for South Africa A’s matches against Bangladesh A next month. Andrew Birch of the Warriors and Kyle Abbott of the Dolphins were called up to the South Africa A squad as replacements. Birch will take his place in the four-day squad and Abbott will play in the one-day matches.McLaren was with Mumbai Indians in the two previous editions of the IPL.

The Pakistan Cricket Board has granted permission for two of its banned players, Shoaib Malik and Rana Naved-ul-Hasan, to play in a domestic Twenty20 league in Bangladesh

Cricinfo staff19-Mar-2010The Pakistan Cricket Board has granted permission for two of its banned players, Shoaib Malik and Naved-ul-Hasan, to play in a domestic Twenty20 league in Bangladesh. This comes just two days after the PCB allowed Mohammad Yousuf to play in the country.”The penalties on these players were for international cricket for the Pakistan team, but they are eligible to play in domestic competitions, so they are cleared to play in Bangladesh,” Wasim Bari, the PCB’s chief operating officer, told .The announcements have come shortly after the PCB banned and fined seven leading players on various charges during the disastrous tour of Australia which ended in February. Pakistan lost all three Tests, five ODIs and the lone Twenty20 match on tour.Former captains Younis Khan and Yousuf were banned indefinitely while Malik, also a former skipper, and allrounder Naved received one-year bans. Shahid Afridi, Kamran Akmal and Umar Akmal were fined between Rs 2-3 million [USD24,000-35,000] and put on six-month probations.The bans, however, do not extend to domestic cricket in Pakistan and competitions abroad although the PCB confirmed no player can participate in overseas competitions without prior approval.”Besides Malik and Naved, some other players also applied for permission and we have an open mind on that,” Bari said.Several members of Pakistan’s World Twenty20 squad, including Afridi, Razzaq and Mohammad Hafeez, were scheduled to play in Bangladesh later this month but Cricinfo understands that none of the 20-member contingent (15 plus five reserves) will be allowed to travel as the board wants them to participate in the training camp prior to leaving for the Caribbean late next month.

Superchargers bowled out for 83 – the second-lowest total in the Men’s Hundred

ECB Media06-Aug-2024Birmingham Phoenix gave themselves a healthy boost in their quest for the top three with a fantastic win against Northern Superchargers in The Hundred at Edgbaston on Tuesday.Phoenix dominated with the ball, blowing the visitors away for just 83, before knocking off the fastest chase in the history of the The Hundred men’s competition thanks to Ben Duckett and Moeen Ali.Northern Superchargers won the toss and chose to bat, with much excitement at the return of England Men’s Test captain Ben Stokes.Unfortunately for Stokes, he made an inauspicious start: made to wait 20 deliveries at the non-striker’s end before being bowled first ball by one that nipped back through the gate from Tim Southee.Birmingham’s Kiwi pace attack set the tone for Phoenix’s victory. Southee took a wicket with his first ball to dismiss Matt Short, before Adam Milne got rid of the dangerous Nicholas Pooran.Captain Harry Brook attempted to rebuild from 19 for 3, with Adam Hose, but even Brook found the pitch tough going as he succumbed to Chris Wood with the score at 36 for 4 halfway through the Superchargers’ innings.Superchargers’ cause wasn’t helped by a superb run-out from Duckett to remove Hose 10 balls later. Southee completed his sublime spell with 3 for 15 and his partner Milne 3 for 20 with the visitors bowled out for a meagre 83 – the second-lowest total in the Men’s Hundred competition.Duckett continued from where he left off for Phoenix on Saturday, racing to 43 from 20 balls, alongside opening partner Moeen, who was similarly speedy for his 37 from 21.Phoenix’s 10-wicket win dents Northern Superchargers’ hopes of making The Hundred Eliminator, while Moeen’s team have put themselves in the mix for the latter stages of the tournament as they leapfrogged their opponents into third after five matches.Meerkat Match Hero Southee said: “We assessed conditions reasonably quickly and the seamers hit a good length that proved difficult to play. It was a pretty clinical performance all round.”This is a great team to be a part of and I’m enjoying my time here. That goes a long way, and it is nice to chalk up another win.”A win like that can only do wonders for the confidence going into our next games, but we know we are heading to a different ground and different opposition, so we have to start again. There are no easy teams in this tournament so we should have another good couple of matches coming up.”

They will play three one-day matches and two four-day games in June

Firdose Moonda25-Apr-2023South Africa’s Test coach Shukri Conrad and eight Test players will lead a strong South Africa A squad to Sri Lanka for three one-day matches and two four-day games in June.In the absence of any Test cricket until December, Cricket South Africa’s director of cricket Enoch Nkwe has sought to fill gaps in the calendar with as much A team cricket as possible to ready the red-ball players for the next World Test Championship cycle, while the white-ball matches will help Sri Lanka prepare for the World Cup Qualifiers. South Africa will know if they have avoided that event at the conclusion of Bangladesh’s series against Ireland next month. Should Ireland win 3-nil, South Africa may have to join Sri Lanka at the competition in Zimbabwe as Ireland and South Africa will be level on 98 points on the ODI Super League points table. If Bangladesh win at least one game, South Africa will remain out of action until September, when they host Australia for a white-ball tour.The trip to Sri Lanka to face Sri Lanka A will give game time to new Test batter Tony de Zorzi, who has been picked to captain the side, as well as several players pushing for permanent spots in the Test XI. Gerald Coetzee, who debuted against West Indies, Keegan Petersen, who has been in and out with injuries and Kyle Verreynne, who Conrad dropped as wicketkeeper are among them.It also marks a return to the set-up for Zubayr Hamza, who was banned from cricket for nine months last May for a doping violation but has since returned for Western Province. Hamza moves to the up-country to Lions next season. Other Test caps include spinning allrounder Senuran Muthusamy and bowlers Lutho Sipamla and Lizaad Williams.Related

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South Africa have also included young batters Dewald Brevis, who has only three first-class and six List A games to his name, Tristan Stubbs and Jordan Hermann, all of whom are under the ages of 22. Brevis and Stubbs are currently at the IPL but Brevis has not played a game while Stubbs has appeared once to date.”The squad reflects the next crop of players that are emerging from our pipeline. We also rewarded those who have performed for their respective domestic teams this past summer,” Nkwe said. The tour will provide the opportunity for those players, together with the younger Proteas, to put their skills to the test in highly competitive, international conditions. It will also serve to strengthen the batting depth in the red-ball department, as we build towards the Test series against India later this year.”Test batting coach Justin Sammons and bowling coach Piet Botha will also be on the trip, with matches to be played in Kandy and Dambulla from June 4.

Sultans smash second-highest total in PSL history as Quetta suffer competition’s heaviest defeat

Alan Gardner18-Feb-2022Multan Sultans scorched their way to an eighth victory from nine, racking up the second-highest total and the biggest winning margin in the history of the PSL, as Quetta Gladiators’ chances of progressing to the knockouts were reduced to a mathematical fancy in the first match of Friday’s double-header in Lahore.The reigning champions had already secured a top-two spot and a place in next week’s qualifier, and they opted to flex their muscles by batting first. A century opening stand inside the first ten overs between Shan Masood and Mohammad Rizwan set an imposing platform, allowing Sultans to plunder a further 144 through the second half of the innings. Rilee Rossouw bludgeoned a carefree 71 from just 26 balls as they narrowly failed to eclipse Islamabad United’s PSL high score of 247.Requiring a record run chase, Quetta fired briefly through Jason Roy and Umar Akmal but were unable to sustain such a punishing asking rate while keeping wickets intact. David Willey struck with his first delivery, a full inswinger that removed Will Smeed – who made 99 in his previous outing – for a duck, and then had Roy caught just beyond the cover ring for 38 from 19 as Gladiators reached 66 for 3 at the end of the powerplay.Akmal kept coming, clearing the ropes six times on the way to a 22-ball fifty, but once he holed out off Imran Tahir, the Quetta chase fell away. Willey, Asif Afridi, Shahnawaz Dahani and Khushdil Shah each picked up two wickets as Gladiators were dismissed inside 16 overs, having got barely halfway to their target.David Willey struck twice in the powerplay•PSL

Sultans were in ruthless mood from the outset, Masood and Rizwan mixing judicious boundary hitting with hard running; Quetta’s depleted attack only managed 12 dot balls in the first 10 overs. The opening stand had reached 119, both openers scoring half-centuries – Rizwan’s fifth of the season taking 28 balls, Masood getting there from 33 – when Mohammad Irfan trapped the latter in front on review. But that simply provided the perfect stage for Rossouw to make his entrance.Rossouw’s second ball was dispatched over deep backward square leg for six, and he then mixed orthodox power with delicate placement on a brace of reverse-sweeps to take three fours in a row off Noor Ahmad. Another burst of boundaries off Sohail Tanvir saw Rossouw reach a half-century from 20 balls before Noor was on the receiving end again, clattered for 4-4-6 in the 18th over. Rossouw fell at the start of the next, picking out deep midwicket with a flat pull that would have otherwise gone for six.Rizwan had been happy to give up the strike, contributing just 15 to another century stand, but he passed 400 runs for the second PSL running on the way to an unbeaten 83. The only Quetta bowler to go at less than 10 runs per over was Irfan, playing his first match since being called in as a replacement for Mohammad Hasnain – and he was unable to finish his allocation after being taken off in the 16th over for delivering two high full tosses.