KARACHI: Sarfaraz Ahmed-led Quetta Gladiators  thrashed  Lahore Qalandars  on Monday in the fifteenth match of the Pakistan Tremendous League (PSL) on the Nationwide Stadium in Karachi.

Gladiators batter Jason Roy’s century steered the Gladiators to a nail-biting seven-wicket victory as he smashed 19 boundaries — 11 fours and eight sixes.

Each James Vince and Roy continued to punish the bowlers and make the conflict one-sided. Vince hit 49 off simply 38 balls with 5 fours.

No bowler of Qalandars was in a position to maintain charged Roy from sending the balls to the boundary.

Glaiators chased down the 205-run goal posted by Qalandars in 19.3 overs at the price of simply three wicket.

Roy was the top-scorer of the match as he made 116 runs off 57 bowls. In the meantime, Mohammad Nawaz scored 25 runs off 12 deliveries.

Amongst bowlers Haris Rauf, Kamram Ghulam and David Wiese managed to take one wicket every.

Lahore’s innings

Fakhar Zaman’s half-century helped Qalandars put up a powerful rating on the board, handing Gladiators a 205-run goal.

Shaheen Shah Afridi had been put to bat first after dropping the toss, however the resolution bore fruit because the Qalandars have been in a position to rating over 200 for the lack of 5 wickets.

Fakhar made 70 runs off 45 balls, with the assistance of three fours and three sixes, whereas Abdullah Shafiq smashed 32 off 27 balls with the assistance of 1 4 and two sixes.

The autumn of wickets started in the eighth over when Ghulam Mudassir picked up the primary and essential wicket of Abdullah (32), who was on a roll together with his opening companion Fakhar .

Within the twelfth over, Iftikhar Ahmed took the wicket of Kamran Ghulam (19), piling up stress on the Qalandars.

Mohammad Hafeez was the third man to go for eight off 4 balls and the person to dismiss him was Mudassir. The fourth scalp of Philip Salt (8) was taken by Luke Wooden. In the meantime, Mudassir bowled Fakhar (70) in the seventeenth over.

Each Qalandars and Gladiators have been taking part in their fifth fixture in the present day.

Taking part in XI:

Quetta Gladiators: Jason Roy, Ahsan Ali, James Vince, Sarfaraz Ahmed (c)(wk), Iftikhar Ahmed, Shahid Khan Afridi, Mohammad Nawaz, Luke Wooden, James Faulkner, Naseem Shah, Ghulam Muassir

Lahore Qalandars: Fakhar Zaman, Abdullah Shafique, Mohammad Hafeez, Kamran Ghulam, Phil Salt (wk), Harry Brook, David Wiese, Rashid Khan, Shaheen Afridi (c), Haris Rauf, Zaman Khan