Chennai Super Stars won the toss and chose to field first. Lahore Badshahs bowling was looking sharp after their previous match. Lahore Badshahs looked shattered all this ICL Season 2. When it comes to crucial games, Lahore Badshahs perform their heart out and win matches. Lahore Badshahs have been winning and were confident in winning this match.

Lahore Badshahs opened their batting aggressively and were scoring freely right from the start of the innings. Lahore Badshahs had clearly known that Chennai superstar’s strength is batting and to compete, a huge score is to be posted commented Cricket360. Lahore Badshahs had their highest opening partnership of 76 runs.

Imran Nazir scored 44 runs off 23 balls featuring 4 boundaries and 4 sixes. Farhat scored 67 runs off 38 balls featuring 8 boundaries and 3 sixes. The middle order batsmen of Lahore Badshahs also scored quickly and boosted the run rate. Lahore Badshahs maintained a consistent run rate of 10 per over and finished their innings in style posting a cricket score of 211 runs for the loss of 4 wickets.

This score was competitive against Chennai Super Stars but still not a match winning one. Chennai Super Stars’ bowling was taken to the rags. Chennai Super Stars used 7 bowlers and all were demolished by the Pakistani batsmen. The only admiring aspect about the bowling of Chennai Super Stars is that they gave away only a single extra.

Chennai Super Stars opened their batting positively and were scoring aggressively. At the end of 7 overs, Chennai Super Stars were 84 runs for the loss of 2 wickets. At this moment, the chase was on. The problem with Chennai superstar’s innings was there was no steady partnership reports Cricket360. Lahore Badshahs bowlers broke the partnerships at crucial moments and remained in the game. Rana Naved once again bowled excellently and claimed 4 wickets giving away just 26 runs in this high scoring ICL game.

Chennai Super Stars lost their way from the 14th over and were out of the chase. Chennai Super Stars ended their innings posting a cricket score of 198 runs for the loss of 9 wickets. Lahore Badshahs won the match by 13 runs and booked their seat in the ICL Semi final. Naved and Farhat were declared joint man of the matches. These two teams will meet again tomorrow in the first semi final to decide the final spot in this ICL Season 2.

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