Quetta Gladiators 188 for 5 (Nafay 60*, Shakeel 40, Raza 1-25) beat Lahore Qalandars 187 for 7 (Farhan 62, Jahandad 45*, Hosein 2-17) by five wickets

Quetta Gladiators clinched a second win from two matches in the PSL 2024 by defeating scrappy defending champions Lahore Qalandars by five wickets.

Gladiators romped to 188 for 5 with five balls to spare after Qalandars' 187 for 7. Qalandars lost a second successive home home after dropping three catches.

Jahandad claimed the momentum in the death overs by hitting four sixes and three boundaries. He upped the ante when he smacked Abrar Ahmed for three sixes in the leg-spinner's last over which went for 23.

Both batters fell in successive overs after dominating the powerplay. Zaman clean-bowled Shakeel with a yorker and Roy swiped wildly at spinner Raza's short ball that hit the middle stump.

Qalandars' part-time wicketkeeper Farhan had another lapse in the field when he dropped former Gladiators captain Sarfaraz Ahmed off the first ball he faced from Rauf.