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
Hundreds of migrants, including Pakistanis, land in Greece after search operation at sea
- Rescued migrants were taken to a temporary facility on Crete after reaching the port of Agia Galini
- Greece has made deportations of rejected asylum seekers a priority under its migration policy
ATHENS: Greece’s Coast Guard rescued about 540 migrants from a fishing boat off Europe’s southernmost island of Gavdos on Friday, one of the biggest groups to reach the country in recent months.
The migrants were found during a Greek search operation some 16 nautical miles (29.6 km) off Gavdos, a Coast Guard statement said. They are all well and are being taken to a temporary facility on the nearby island of Crete after reaching the port of Agia Galini, a Coast Guard official said, adding most of the migrants were men from Bangladesh, Egypt and Pakistan.
In a separate incident on Thursday, the EU’s border agency Frontex rescued 65 men and five women from two migrant boats in distress off Gavdos, the Greek Coast Guard said.
Greece was on the front line of a 2015-16 migration crisis when more than a million people from the Middle East and Africa landed on its shores before moving on to other European countries, mainly Germany.
Flows have ebbed since then, but both Crete and Gavdos — the two Mediterranean islands nearest to the African coast — have seen a steep rise in migrant boats, mainly from Libya, reaching their shores over the past year and deadly accidents remain common along that route.
Greece, Cyprus, Spain and Italy will be eligible for help in dealing with migratory pressures under a new EU mechanism when the bloc’s pact on migration and asylum enters into force in mid-2026.
The center-right government of Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has said deportation of rejected asylum seekers will be a priority.
