Islamabad United defeated Lahore Qalandars comfortably on Friday 11th of April 2025 at the Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium to begin the Pakistan Super League (PSL) X season 10.

With just (2) wickets lost and (14) balls remaining, the current champions easily chased down the goal of (140).

After losing rookie starter Andries Gous in the 2nd over with just (8) runs scored, the home club had a difficult start to their run chase.

Munro Is Perform Bang Bang

Following this early loss, Sahibzada Farhan and Colin Munro stepped out to bat together, and the two of them recovered by scoring (55) runs for the 2nd wicket. Farhan, who scored (25) runs off of (24) balls, was bowled out by Haris Rauf in the 9th over, though.

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The squad won because of “Munro’s (80) run partnership with Salman Ali Agha, which was the match winning partnership”.

While Salman Ali Agha scored (41) not out from (34) balls, including 3-fours and a six, while Munro led the way with an undefeated (59) runs off (42) balls, including 7-fours and a six.

Abbas Afridi and Haris Rauf both took (1) wicket for the Lahore Qalandars.

Great Bowling Towards Jason Holder

Shadab Khan, the captain of United, had earlier made a brilliant choice by choosing to bowl 1st. The Qalandars were reduced to (139) runs in 19.2 overs by the United bowlers, who were headed by Jason Holder’s (4) wicket get.

Fakhar Zaman was dismissed for just (1) run in the 2nd inning, giving the Qalandars a bad start to their innings.

The only bright light for the visitors was Abdullah Shafique, who batted at number-3 and scored (66) runs off of (38) balls. He formed important partnerships with Sikandar Raza and Daryl Mitchell, but the rest of the squad found it difficult to handle the United bowlers.

United’s supremacy was established by Jason Holder’s outstanding bowling statistics of (4/26) in (4) overs.

Imad Wasim, Naseem Shah, and Riley Meredith each claimed (1) wicket, with Shadab Khan contributing three. United, who were at ease during the chase, won thanks to Colin Munro’s undefeated half-century.

Whereas rawalpindi cricket stadium had a lovely opening ceremony to start off the 10th season of the Pakistan Super League (PSLX).