Lahore Qalandars managed to score 175/6 though Karachi Kings will not find it too difficult to overcome this target. Lahore Qalandars' bowling department has been pretty decent but the overall performance is not as good as the teams at the top of the points table. Now it is to be seen how well Lahore Qalandars can perform and win today's match to secure their first victory in this year's Pakistan Super League.

Lahore Qalandars are playing on their home ground. I do not know if this home ground pressure goes in favor of them or it goes against them. The good thing about the Lahore Qalandars team was that Sahibzada Farhan who was the opener for the Lahore Qalandars, stayed on the crease till the whole 20 over and remained not out. He also scored at a good rate of 160 (strike rate) as he made 72 runs in 45 balls. The probelm with the lahore team was that no one stood with Sahibzada Farhan and they kept losing wickets on regular intervals. I guess George Linde stood in the end and helped Sahibzada Farhan and Lahore Qalandars to reach a reasonable target.

176 runs are not going to be enough for the Lahore Qalandars, if they do not take early wickets. Shaheen Shah Afridi and Zaman Khan (the opening bowlers for Lahore Qalandars) need to strike quick and hard. Karachi Kings are 19 for no wickets down and they have started well. Shan Masood and Muhammad Akhlaq have started good and they would want to continue.

The New Zealand team performed well in the first T20 match against Australia. Even after the New Zealand team gave their best performance, they could not win the first T20 match. New Zealand lost in second T20 match New Zealand bowlers performed very well in second T20 match unfortunately New Zealand batsmen could not bat that well in second T20 match due to which New Zealand team lost second T20 match against Australia. Australia went on to win the series as they lost against Australia in the second T20I. Third Twenty20 Match New Zealand's batsmen or bowlers will certainly want to try their best in the third Twenty20 match to avoid a whitewash against Australia.

Linde & Sahibzada Farhan scored 54 runs from 26 balls in the seventh wicket partnership as Lahore set Karachi Kings a defensible target of 176 runs. Karachi Kings are now batting, they lost four wickets in the power play to get 44 runs. The Kings have taken 86 runs in 11 overs so far. To win, Karachi Kings still need 90 runs from 54 balls. At this moment it is difficult to say which team will win. Kieron Pollard & Shoaib Malik batting in fifth wicket partnership. If the Lahore bowlers can't overcome this pair of wickets, the game can turn around in two to three overs. Lahore have not won a single match so far this season, they must bowl well to win.

Lahore's batsmen have batted well in the previous matches as well. The team's batting order is strong. Despite batting well in the last three matches, the team lost. They lost against Islamabad United despite being set a target of 196 runs and against Quetta Gladiators after being set a target of 188 runs. Although the batsmen of the team performed well, the performance of the bowlers was quite poor. The team has given a big target in today's match. Even so, I would say that if the bowlers don't perform well, they won't be able to win.

Karachi Kings lost 4 important wickets to collect 44 runs. Pollard and Shoib Malik now at the crease. At the end of 12 overs, the team collected 91 runs. Karachi team must collect 85 runs from 48 balls. If these two batsmen can stay at the crease then Karachi have a chance to win. But so far Lahore is the most likely to win.

Currently, after end of the 16 overs we have very entertaining end of this match while Karachi Kings are chasing 176 runs against Lahore Qalandars, and they lost few early wickets but veteran Shoaib Malik and Keron Pollard bring them back into match with their timely impressive innings right now we have 142 runs with lost of the 5 wickets and requirement is 33 runs from the 21 balls Shaheen Afridi after having six on first ball now got the wicket of Pollard which give good chance to Lahore Qalandars for fighting back into match but here we have still few good hitters for the Karachi which can bring win for them in this thrilling encounter.

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Harris Rauf got the Shoaib Malik in his last and 17th over of the match, which is a big setback for the Karachi Kings.

Currently, this match of Pakistan Super league competition was finished now and outcome of this match was Karachi Kings defeated Lahore Qalandar team very badly and this match was very impressive and both squads performance was also appreciable. At last over of this match, Karachi Kings squad needed 11 scores off 6 deliveries for emerging victory, Hasan Ali and Irfan Khan were batting on crease. In First delivery of this over, Hasan Ali collected six score after hitting six and in next delivery successfully collected one score and then Irfan collected three scored in next two deliveries. Now, Karachi Kings needed one score in two deliveries but sadly, Hasan Ali got out and new batter Mir Hamza picked one score in last delivery and got victory, this match was quite thrilling and intense among these sqauds.

20th over's first ball six from Hassan Ali was enough for the Karachi Kings to hand over 4th successive defeat to Lahore Qalandars which is now at the bottom of league table as their bowlers completely fail to defend a decent target even they take 4 early wickets but Shoaib and Pollard both done good job and bring 2nd win for their team in their 3 matches.

Duo of Shaheen Afridi and Harris Rauf which was one of the best in 2022 now lost their all magic and currently having tag of one of the worst in cricket as in 2023 and now 2024 are having not good for them and both are conceding runs with not success for their national team and now Lahore Qalandars are suffering humiliating defeats which are going to be worst for them and their management which spend huge amount for them to have class bowlers and few top quality batsmen into this team.

In this three game series, 3 rd last game of this series will held on ground after 37 mins and Australia won old two games and I also select that Australia team also won this final game and end this series by winning all game. There is no doubt both teams are strong in international cricket, New Zealand also beated many strong teams like Pakistan etc but in this series, they did not played well, in 1 st they set very good target of 215 runs but their bowler did not strong effort then Australian batsman, in next game, Australia team set 174 runs target this small as matched with 1 st game target but in this game, New Zealand team batsman did not showed good struggle and lost this game. Now final game will be played and let's watch which team win this last game.

New Zealand had a chance to win the second T20 as New Zealand restricted Australia to 174 runs. But New Zealand's performance in the second T20 at home is really disappointing. now running match,  New Zealand vs Australia in the last T20 match of the series. Australia are now batting, their team score 72/2 over 6.2. The game has been suspended due to rain. If the game is not shortened due to rain due to DLS method and if the game is played on the field then Australia can give New Zealand a target of 200+. Australia are in form in both batting & bowling formats. I think Australia will whitewash New Zealand 3-0.