KSS vs ALZ

That's it for this match, folks! Do switch tabs to catch some more T10 action from Kristianstad in 5 minutes. For now, this is Rudransh and Bidipto taking your leave. Have a good rest of the day!

Kristianstad win by 4 wickets.

Ihsanullah Wafa 40 (12) | Farhad Sahak 3/15
Zabihullah Niazy 16 (10) | Qurdratullah Mir Afzal 3/8

Scenes, proper scenes! Kristianstad, struggling to survive in the tournament, have just handed Alby Zalmi CC their first wicket of the season! Not that it wasn't expected after they kept the mighty batting lineup to just 89 in the first innings. But it got very very tricky at the end.

The openers did well for Kristianstad, especially Wafa, who put up a freakish show, going after everything that Alby Zalmi threw at him with full force and collecting boundaries with middle, top-edges, and leading edges on the way to his 12-ball 40. Kristianstad became very defensive once he got out, trying to wrest back control with a few wicketless overs but Mir Afzal turned the tables on them by picking two wickets in the eighth over. Kamran Rashid bowled an excellent ninth over and so did Usman Jabbar in the tenth but Gujer and Zaheer pounced on their slightest errors to collect a boundary each against them and win the match!

Kristianstad are still alive and kicking in the tournament and now have collected a bit of momentum, such matches are generally galvanizing. Alby Zalmi, meanwhile, will want to brush it off as a blip and work on their batting strategy.

9.4 Usman Jabbar to Noman Zaheer, KRISTIANSTAD CC WIN! Full on off-stump. Noman goes deep in his crease and crunches it through the covers. He manages to find the gap and sends it to the deep cover fence for the victory! 

9.3 Usman Jabbar to Noman Zaheer, OH! Full on off-stump. Tapped back to the bowler from the front foot and Noman still wanted to run! Jabbar threw it back to the keeper who took the bails off but by then, Noman was back in his crease! This is getting interesting now! 

Oh, that's the moment of the match! Poor fielding at square leg and the excellent over from Rashid went stale in a minute. Just three needed of the last over.  

8.6 Kamran Rashid to Samiulhaq Gujer, FOUR RUNS! Slightly short on off-stump. Pulled away really well down to the right of deep mid-wicket for a crucial boundary! 

8.5 Kamran Rashid to Samiulhaq Gujer, short over off-stump. A swing and a miss this time with the attempted pull shot on the back foot! No run. 

8.3 Kamran Rashid to Samiulhaq Gujer, good length ball on off-and-middle. Thumped off the back foot but not off the middle of the bat. They get a run down to long-on though. 

8.2 Kamran Rashid to Noman Zaheer, good length ball around off-stump. Punched hard but straight to cover point. A slight misfield allows for a single. 

Qudratullah Mir Afzal have kept Alby Zalmi CC in the game every so slightly. He's like ECS's Vernon Philander, bowling that irritating medium pace at the stumps which is so difficult to get away. Excellent field position too from the bowling side. A bit over coming up!

7.6 Qudratullah Mir Afzal to Akmal Popal, LBW! Full and straight, right up in the block hole. Popal plays right across the line and gets struck in front of the stumps. The umpire upholds the appeal instantly!

Akmal Popal lbw b Qudratullah Mir Afzal 1 (2b, 0x4, 0x6)