Even With Seven International Players, Lahore Qalandars Faced a Humiliating Defeat:-
If you have seven international players in your team, will you still lose humiliatingly? Well, this is what happened with Lahore Qalandars in league cricket. Ladies and gentlemen, this is specially for the fans from Pakistan. PSL has started and all our fans from Pakistan said that sir please cover our league as well.
PSL vs IPL: A Clash of Calendars and Expectations:-
In the past years, PSL used to happen along with Women’s Premier League. It used to be played in India. This year, PSL and IPL are almost on time. Many of those players who used to play in IPL every year are playing PSL, including Warner, Sikandar Raza, Jason Holder and one such match was between Islamabad United and Lahore Qalandars.
Shaheen Afridi’s Decline Mirrors His Team’s Fall:-
Lahore Qalandars is a team that has done well at one time and it seemed that maybe Shaheen Shah Afridi’s team will do something amazing because Shaheen Shah Afridi became the captain by giving such performance here, but the way Shaheen Shah’s international graph fell, the graph of his PSL team also fell and then saw Hasan Ali’s remembered that if a team does not play well in international cricket, then it affects its league equally and especially those leagues where there are no big players with a massive fan following, then it affects even more.
A Star-Studded Line-Up, But No Spark:-
One of the biggest players of Pakistan is Shaheen Shah Afridi, he is the captain of Lahore Qalandars, Shadab Khan’s team Islamabad United gave a tremendous performance last year, they won the tournament with a tremendous performance and it was an amazing match last year, Imad Wasim,remember after that Imad Wasim and Mohammad Aamir’s comeback also happened in international cricket, though there was not much difference, but in this match also it was the same story, Fakhar Zaman, Abdullah Shafique, Daryl Mitchell, Sam Billings of CSK, apart from this, Sikandar Raza, VJ, Shaheen Shah Afridi, Haris Rauf, all these players were in Lahore Qalandars’ team, but despite this, Lahore Qalandars got all out for just 139 runs, big guns Fakhar Zaman sahab got out after scoring one run, Abdullah Shafique got runs, he was a flop since a long time He made a comeback in this match, scored 66 runs in 38 balls.
Islamabad United’s Bowlers Seal the Deal:-
Daryl Mitchell said that if he comes out of CSK, he will play like CSK. Just like CSK is playing in India, Daryl Mitchell played in PSL from here. 13 runs in 14 balls, Sam Belling went on zero. Sikandar Raza also flopped. The result was that Islamabad United could score only 139 runs. Jason Holder took four wickets and turned the match around.
No Shaheen Magic, No Fightback:-
Imad Wasim was also amazing, took one wicket in four overs, 20 runs and Shadab Khan, who was the captain, took three wickets in three overs, two balls, 25 runs. It was an interesting match. It seemed that Shaheen Shah Afridi could not do wonders in bowling and batting, maybe he will bowl as well. There were high hopes that what would Shaheen bhai do, but Islamabad United finished the match in 17 overs and four balls of Marmur.
Colin Munro & Salman Ali Agha Make It Look Easy:-
Finished the match with eight wickets. Although Shaheen is saying that this is just the start of the tournament, not the end of the world, which is true, but It seems that only learn and win is going on in the life of Pakistan’s international players. Rizwan that Pakistani journalists were having fun, Indians are having fun, understand that, but people in Pakistan were also having fun and at that time when they were having fun, Shadab Khan, who is the captain of Islamabad United, was laughing and the same thing happened.
The Problem With Star Power That Doesn’t Perform:-
Shaheen Shah Afridi’s team just kept learning, Shadab Khan’s team won because Colin Munro and Salman Ali Agha gave a tremendous performance in Shadab Khan’s team. Shaheen Shah Shah Afridi flopped, he was already a flop. Here also he was the second most expensive bowler of his team, he bowled four overs, conceded 38 runs, he did not get a wicket. Asif Afridi bowled better than him.
The PSL Needs New Stars, Not Just Recycled Hype:-
Haris Rauf bowled better than him, scored 34 runs in four overs. Shaheen got beaten and got beaten badly and the effect of getting beaten was that his match got stuck. Now the question is that if international players do not perform, big players play, then the interest of the league will decrease.
Conclusion: Star-Studded on Paper, Struggling in Reality:-
It will be what Hasan Ali said that if we will play well people will watch but what will happen if you don’t play, you get it leaked at the same time like India, bring back the players who were released from India and start banning players like India, all this is fine but what will be its long term effect, you have banned a player, Corbin Bosch, he was banned from PSL, he was playing for Peshawar Zalmi, he withdrew his name, joined Mumbai Indians and he was banned in his place, he was banned now what was the benefit of banning, the main thing is that the cricket league will grow only when new players come, new boys will come and perform and those boys will come out and dominate international cricket, the problem of Pakistan in the past years has been that boys have come out of PSL but could not leave any mark in international cricket, the same old Naseem, Haris, Shaheen and they keep getting beaten, among the new boys, got injured and he disappeared, the rest Azam Khan, Abdullah Shafiq kept on flopping as much as IFF did, will any boy emerge from Pakistan PSL this year