{"id":57308,"date":"2018-03-21T23:59:15","date_gmt":"2018-03-21T18:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=57308"},"modified":"2018-03-21T23:59:16","modified_gmt":"2018-03-21T18:59:16","slug":"zalmi-eliminates-kings-as-peshawar-will-face-islamabad-in-final-of-psl-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=57308","title":{"rendered":"Zalmi eliminates Kings as Peshawar will face Islamabad in final of PSL-3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lahore, March 21 (TNS): Kamran Akmal hits fastest half-century in history of the Pakistan Super League as Karachi Kings lost to Peshawar Zalmi in the final eliminator in Lahore.<\/p>\n<p>The 32-year-old Kent Cricket Academy Akmal smashed 77 off 22 balls including eight sixes.<\/p>\n<p>His 27th T20 50 came off 34 balls with a towering straight six off the bowling of Umaid Asif.<\/p>\n<p>Peshawar opener Kamran Akmal struck a 17-ball half-century to inspire Peshawar to 170-7 off 16 overs in rain hit match.<\/p>\n<p>Kings fought back with wickets from Ravi Bopara (3\/35) and Tymal Mills (2\/23) to restrict Zalmi to 50-5 in the final six overs of a rain-reduced 16-over innings.<\/p>\n<p>In reply, Denly and Babar recovered from the early loss of Mukhtar Ahmed to add 117 off 79 balls.<\/p>\n<p>Babar Azam (63) eventually holed out to Liam Dawson midway through the 15th over leaving Denly and Colin Ingram a virtually impossible task.<\/p>\n<p>Peshawar now face group leaders Islamabad United in the final in Karachi on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Courtesy: Kent Cricket<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lahore, March 21 (TNS): Kamran Akmal hits fastest half-century in history of the Pakistan Super League as Karachi Kings lost to Peshawar Zalmi in the final eliminator in Lahore. The 32-year-old Kent Cricket Academy Akmal smashed 77 off 22 balls including eight sixes. His 27th T20 50 came off 34 balls with a towering straight [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57309,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57308","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=57308"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57310,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57308\/revisions\/57310"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/57309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}