{"id":56643,"date":"2018-03-16T15:15:52","date_gmt":"2018-03-16T10:15:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=56643"},"modified":"2018-03-16T15:15:52","modified_gmt":"2018-03-16T10:15:52","slug":"peshawar-zalmi-will-face-qalandars-in-the-quest-for-play-off-qualification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=56643","title":{"rendered":"Peshawar Zalmi will face Qalandars in the quest for play-off qualification:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Islamabad\/Sharjah, March 16 (TNS):<\/strong> Peshawar Zalmi will go head-on against Lahore Qalandars in the Sharjah cricket stadium on Friday in the hope to qualify for the top four spots in the PSL standings.<\/p>\n<p>For , Peshawar Zalmi sit in 5<sup>th<\/sup> place with eight points, 1 point adrift from Multan Sultans (9 points).Whereas, Karachi is for now at third place with 9 points, in the PSL table.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a \u201cdo or die\u201d game for Zalmi. A win today will mean they will progress for the play-off stages. Either Multan Sultans or Karachi Kings will be eliminated.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand if Peshawar suffers defeat against Lahore Qalandars they will become the first Defending champions to be eliminated at group stages.<\/p>\n<p>Karachi is also in peril of elimination as they face Islamabad United, who are in red hot form at the moment as they are currently relishing a 6 game winning streak.<\/p>\n<p>Any loss to Karachi more than 16 runs will mean that Karachi will bow out of PSL this season without playing the playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>Or if Islamabad chases the target against them in more than 2 overs remaining, Kings will have to face the consequences and suffer elimination.<\/p>\n<p>Due to a better run-rate Zalmi have a greater chance to qualify, Zalmi have a (+0.399) run-rate. While Karachi Kings and Multan Sultans have (-0.118) and (-0.191) run-rate respectively.<\/p>\n<p>In spite of the tense scenario of the qualification fight, Darren Sammy seemed to be in a light mood at the toss against Karachi yesterday and stated: his men in yellow will try their level best to qualify for the play-offs and travel again to Pakistan and give the people of Pakistan and (KPK) joy again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad\/Sharjah, March 16 (TNS): Peshawar Zalmi will go head-on against Lahore Qalandars in the Sharjah cricket stadium on Friday in the hope to qualify for the top four spots in the PSL standings. For , Peshawar Zalmi sit in 5th place with eight points, 1 point adrift from Multan Sultans (9 points).Whereas, Karachi is for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56644,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[330],"class_list":["post-56643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56643"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56645,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56643\/revisions\/56645"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/56644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}