Opener Sharjeel Khan scored a rankling 117 and spinner Imran Khalid returned figures 3-0-20-4 as Islamabad United exhaustively beat Peshawar Zalmi by 50 keeps running at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium on Sunday.
Pursuing 177, Zalmi drooped to 126-10 in 18 overs. With this win, United has met all requirements for Pakistan Super League (PSL) last.
It was an overall show by United's batsmen and bowlers as they send a solid, ritzy Zalmi pressing.
Zalmi have had an awesome competition until playoffs where they lost both of their matches. Warriors, in a nail-gnawing last-ball complete, overcame Zalmi in the primary playoff on February 19.
Zalmi's scorecard demonstrated an inauspicious picture as none other than Kamran Akmal (45 off 32, with five fours and two sixes) could stand tall before an energized United assault.
Dawid Malan was the first to leave in the wake of scoring seven, trailed by Mohammad Hafeez (eight), Akmal, Brad Hodge (five), Darren Sammy (nine), Shahid Yousuf (four), Wahab Riaz (one), Hassan Ali (one) and Mohammad Asghar (zero).
Captain Afridi attempted to set up some resistance yet only he wasn't sufficient to take Zalmi home. In his 17-ball keep focused wrinkle, Afridi scored 38 runs hitting four colossal sixes and two fours.
Prior, opener Sharjeel Khan scored a 117 hurries to lift Islamabad United to 176-3.
As Afridi came into dumbfound the sixteenth and pitched it short, Sharjeel smacked it straight down the ground, cleaning the long-up, to enlist himself as the principal batsman to score a hundred in PSL.
He hit 12 fours and eight sixes in his 62-ball thump.
United, in the wake of being sent into bat, built up a 108-run stand for the main wicket in 13.1 overs.
Zalmi pace initiate Shaun Tait, by rejecting a battling Dwayne Smith (19 off 37) and Brad Haddin (zero) on successive conveyances, attempted to bring his group once again into the challenge however was left searching for backing from different partners.
The Hyderabad-conceived Sharjeel was appreciated backing in death overs by Khalid Latif, who came into bat at number four, and scored a vital 28 off 21 balls.
Sharjeel and Latif built up a vital 63-run association for the third wicket. Sharjeel, trying to recover the strike, ran himself out in the last over.
Islamabad United and Quetta Gladiators will vie for 2016 PSL trophy on February 23
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