{"id":16634,"date":"2022-02-24T07:52:42","date_gmt":"2022-02-24T07:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/?p=16634"},"modified":"2022-02-24T07:52:42","modified_gmt":"2022-02-24T07:52:42","slug":"iu-vs-pz-united-get-alex-hales-boost-ahead-of-clash-against-covid-hit-zalmi-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/2022\/02\/24\/iu-vs-pz-united-get-alex-hales-boost-ahead-of-clash-against-covid-hit-zalmi-today\/","title":{"rendered":"IU vs PZ: United get Alex Hales boost ahead of clash against COVID-hit Zalmi today"},"content":{"rendered":"
LAHORE: The two relatively weaker sides, Peshawar Zalmi and Islamabad United \u2014 hard hit by injuries and COVID-19 \u2014 will be up against each other in the first eliminator playoff of the Pakistan Super League (PSL) at the Gaddafi Stadium today.<\/div>\n
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The match starts at 07:30pm (PST).<\/p>\n

Zalmi and United are placed at the third and fourth spot on the points table with twelve and eight points respectively.<\/p>\n

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Clear sky is predicted on the day, but the temperature between the two teams is expected to rise as the match is a do or die situation for them. The teams have met 19 times in the past in PSL with Peshawar having won nine matches while Islamabad pocketed victories in eight outings.<\/p>\n

It is yet to confirm about\u00a0Islamabad\u2019s skipper Shadab Khan recovery<\/b><\/a>\u00a0from groin injury. If he is in the playing XI, their team would play with a different combination. On the other hand,\u00a0Alex Hales availability<\/b><\/a>\u00a0bolsters Islamabad because he is the top run-scorer with 255 runs at a strike rate of 156.<\/p>\n

Shadab has been the best bowler for Islamabad United and has picked up 17 wickets with a superb economy rate of 6.04.<\/p>\n

Read more:\u00a0Blow to Islamabad United as players suffer injuries<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

Whereas from Peshawar, Shoaib Malik is the top run-scorer with 346 runs at a strike rate of 138. Ben Cutting has also made 197 runs at a strike rate of 164. Salman Irshad has been the best bowler for Peshawar Zalmi and has picked up 12 wickets with an economy rate of 8.32.<\/p>\n

The toss would be expected to play a cruicial role in the play-off between Zalmi and United.<\/p>\n

The winner of this match will play against the losing team of the Qualifier match.<\/p>\n

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LAHORE: The two relatively weaker sides, Peshawar Zalmi and Islamabad United \u2014 hard hit by injuries and COVID-19 \u2014 will be up against each other in the first eliminator playoff of the Pakistan Super League (PSL) at the Gaddafi Stadium today. The match starts at 07:30pm (PST). Zalmi and United are placed at the third […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16635,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-16634","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16634"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16636,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16634\/revisions\/16636"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}