PSL 9.0 started today with an opening ceremony at the Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore. The ceremony was short, crisp and impactful as these were the words shared by the former captain of Pakistan "Waseem Akram".

As i always share some of the highlights of every year's PSL, here are some of the moments of the opening ceremony of the event.

Sri Lanka's top order batsmen are not playing well. Even so, the team is moving towards a bigger collection. At the end of 18 overs Sri Lanka managed to collect 155 runs losing 8 wickets.

Captain Warindu Hasaranga's knock of 67 off 32 balls helped the team to collect big. Had Hasaranga not batted well, Sri Lanka's innings would probably have ended before 140. If the Sri Lankan team can somehow deliver the target of 180 then they have a chance to win.

In T20 format I think Afghanistan team is stronger than Sri Lanka. Playing regularly in various franchise leagues, Afghanistan players are now very strong in the T20 format. Despite not winning the ODI series, Afghanistan will win the T20 series.

Mohammad Niam and Alex Ross managed to build a partnership of 51 runs. These two batsmen have batted very responsibly. But Naim's batting was very slow. He collected only 29 runs off 35 balls. He batted at only 82 strike rate. At the end of 13 overs, the Dhaka team managed to collect only 82 runs. The team has to collect 78 runs in the last 7 overs. Dhaka still has a chance to win if they play well. If the partnership of Alex Ross and Sean Williams is prolonged, Dhaka has the potential to win. Dhaka will not win if these two batsmen do not play well.

The Sri Lankan team surprised me in the death overs. After a great inning from Hasaranga, other batters throw away the chance to give a big target. Sri Lanka lost the last five of their wickets for 14 runs. Poor display of death batting from Sri Lanka. Afghanistan lost Gurbaz early in the innings. Hasaranga and Theekshana will be the keys for Sri Lanak in this match.

Lahore Qalandar is off to a good start in the opening match of PSL. They scored 66 runs in the powerplay; Farhan looked in great touch and played some fabulous shorts. Farhan's wicket here might put pressure on Lahore. Looking at the Islamabad batting lineup, I think a target of over 180 might be a good score on this pitch.

In BPL, Chattogram Challengers posted a target of 160 runs against Durdanto Dhaka; apart from Tanzid and Bruce, no other batter could score. In response, DRD is 93/4 after 15 overs, and they need another 67 runs in 5 overs. CC should win this match comfortably.

Alex Ross is in great form but Shaun Williams is already out with 9 runs from 9 balls. Now Alex Ross is the last hope for victory in today's match. durdanto Dhaka team can win today's match with the responsible batting of Alex Ross. Alex Ross has collected 55 runs from 43 balls so far. durdanto Dhaka team still needs 42 runs from 18 balls to win this match. Now let's see if the Dhaka team can snatch the victory in today's match. On the other hand, the Chittagong team has found it difficult to prevent the victory of the Dhaka team. In the end, let's see which team can do well to win.

Dhaka's icon players did not fare much better especially Dhaka needs hard hitter batting but no batting can bat like that. In BPL today's match was defeated by only 10 runs in the target of only 160 runs although the bowling line of Chittagong Challenger performed so badly in today's match that it felt like watching a local match. In today's match, it looks like the wides are doing bowling practice under 15. However, in today's match Alex Ross could not win due to bad batting performance despite creating a chance to win, so Dhaka did not have all the chances. On the other hand, Chittagong Challenger's chances of qualifying remained.

Fakhar Zaman score runs once in a while and mostly he is just a failure. There is nothing surprise if Fakhar Zaman once again depart at very initial stage of the innings. Lahore Qalandars have done a good job so far by scoring 178 runs in 19 overs. Sahibzada Farhan and Rassie van der Dussen
both scored half centuries. Rassie van der Dussen is still on the crease, scored 60 runs on 36 balls. Lahore team will defiantly score 190 runs and it will be interesting to see united run chase.   

Its getting very excited as I am writing this post. Afghanistan need 11 runs to win on 6 balls with only one wicket left. Ibrahim Zadran is well set batsmen on the crease and he faced last 6 balls. Here is how Ibrahim Zadran played last 6 balls, 0-0-0-0-2-4. Ibrahim Zadran was only able to score 6 runs on last 6 balls and result is Afghanistan losing the game by 4 runs.

In the ODI series, we saw the defeat of the Afghanistan team. However, there has been no change in the Afghanistan team's game in this T20 series. Afghanistan team looks weak in T20 format. In the opening match of the T20 series, the Afghanistan team lost by four wickets against Sri Lanka. Here I will not say that Afghanistan team played badly. Afghanistan team lost the match against Sri Lanka but they opened the game in tough competition.  If the players of the Afghanistan team can change the style of play a little more, then Afghanistan can definitely expect good things in this T20 format.  So now I think Afghanistan team needs to practice hard So that they can expect good things against Sri Lanka in this T20 series

In Durdanto Dhaka vs Chattogram Challengers today game

Chattogram Challengers team won toss and they got a opportunity to take first bowl or bat and they Chattogram Challengers decided to bat first. This game was held on Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium, Chattogram and this stadium was lucky for Chattogram Challengers team.  Chattogram Challengers team set a 159 runs target in 20 overs by losing 6 wickets. T.Hasan made 70 runs in 50 balls and he hitted one 4s and six 6s and due to thus effort T.Hasan got a player of game award when this game ended. T.Bruce also showed outstanding struggle in batting lineup and he scored 48 runs in 35 balls and he hitted three 4s and two 6s. S.hom also dismissed 2 wickets in 3 overs with 12 runs. Durdanto Dhaka team failed to chase down target and lost this game by 10 runs and this is not big margin.