ISLAMABAD: Peshawar Zalmi defeated Multan Sultans by four runs in their Pakistan Super League (PSL) 9th edition match at the Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium on Tuesday.
Peshawar won the toss and decided to bat first in the game. Skipper Babar Azam played a 64-run knock, while Saim Ayub scored 46 from 22 deliveries.
Haseebullah Khan added another 31 runs to take Peshawar to 204/5. In return, Iftikhar Ahmed put up a brilliant show by scoring 60 not out, but Multan finished only five runs short of win.
“Ifti Mania kept Multan Sultans in the game till the very end, but Peshawar Zalmi reign supreme tonight,” PSL commented on X after the match.
Usama Mir took three wickets for 32 runs, while Chris Jordan dismissed two 33 runs.
In their 205-run chase, things could have been better for Multan, had they scored at a quicker rate early on.
Apart from Ahmed, Mohammad Rizwan and Chris Jordan were the only batsmen with significant scores of 32 and 30 not out, respectively.
Aamir Jamal took two for 36, while Mehran Mumtaz and Naveen-ul-Haq dismissed one each.
Table-toppers Multan have won six out of their eight games, while Peshawar have won four of their eight matches played this season.
Peshawar beat Multan by four runs in PSL thriller
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Peshawar beat Multan by four runs in PSL thriller
- Skipper Babar Azam played a 64-run knock, while Saim Ayub scored 46
- Chasing a 204-run target, Multan reached 200 runs from their 20 overs
Pakistani students stuck in Afghanistan permitted to go home
- The border between the countries has been shut since Oct. 12
- Worries remain for students about return after the winter break
JALALABAD: After three months, some Pakistani university students who were stuck in Afghanistan due to deadly clashes between the neighboring countries were “permitted to go back home,” Afghan border police said Monday.
“The students from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (northwest Pakistan) who were stuck on this side of the border, only they were permitted to cross and go to their homes,” said Abdullah Farooqi, Afghan border police spokesman.
The border has “not reopened” for other people, he said.
The land border has been shut since October 12, leaving many people with no affordable option of making it home.
“I am happy with the steps the Afghan government has taken to open the road for us, so that my friends and I will be able to return to our homes” during the winter break, Anees Afridi, a Pakistani medical student in eastern Afghanistan’s Nangarhar province, told AFP.
However, worries remain for the hundreds of students about returning to Afghanistan after the break ends.
“If the road is still closed from that side (Pakistan), we will be forced to return to Afghanistan for our studies by air.”
Flights are prohibitively expensive for most, and smuggling routes also come at great risk.
Anees hopes that by the time they return for their studies “the road will be open on both sides through talks between the two governments.”
