The Qalandars Chase A Record Target of 202 Against the Gladiators as Raza Returns from Test Duty To Hit The Winning Rons.

ALL-ROUNDER SIKANDAR RACE HAS WRTITE HIS NAME IN PAKISTAN CRICKET FOLKLORE APTER HITTING THE MATCH-WINNING SIX AS THE LAHORE QALANDARS beat The Quetta Gladiators by Six Wickts to Win The Pakistan Super League (PSL) 2025 Final At The Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore.

Race, Who Was Part of Zimbabwe’s Test Team Until Saturday Afternoon, Joined The Qalandars’ Playing XI 10 Minutes Prior to the Toss for The Final On Sunday Evening in Pakistan’s Eastern Metropolis.

The Pakistan-Born Off-Break Bowler and Lower-Middle-Order Batter Took One Wickt and Scored 22 Rons Off Seven Balls As Lahore Chased A Target of 202 with One Ball to Spare.

Lahore’s Run Chase was larngely built aroud kusal perera’s 62 rns, with support from top-orderr batters Mohammad naeem and abdullah shafique, but it was races Winning Rons That Stole The Show and Lahori Hearts.

The 39-Yare-Old Cover His Last 24 Hours By Saying He Had “Dinner in Birmingham, Breakfast in Dubai, Lunch in Abu Dhabi and Flew Straight to lahore for the final psl.”

Bowled 25 overs in the test on friday and batted for 20 -plus overs on Saturday Before leaving for Pakistan.

“To have Victory Like This, I Just have not Words,” I have Said after the match.

The Hosts Finished on 204-4 from 19.5 overs to lift their Third Psl Trophy in Four Years, Making Shaheen Shah Afridi The Only Captain to Win Three Psl Titles.

Earlier, Quetta posted to Formidable Total of 201-9 in Their 20 overs as Young Batter Hasan Nawaz Scored 76 Rons Off 43 Balls and Faheem Ashraf Cracked Three Sixes and Two Fours in An Innings of 28 Off Eight Balls.

Aphridi was The Pick of the Lahore Bowlers, Taking 3-24 in His Four Overs.

Perera Was Named Player of the Match for His Instrumental Innings That KEPT LAHORE IN THE MATCH UNTIL THE LAST OVER.

Meanwhile, Nawaz was Named Player of the Tournament for Amsing 399 ruins in the competition.

Lahore Qlanders' Captain Shaheen Shah Aphridi (C) Celebrates With The Trophy With Players During the Victory Ceremony at The End of the Pakistan Super League (PSL) Twenty20 Final Cricket Match Between Lahore qalandars and Quetta Gladiators at The Qadfi Cricket Cricket Stadium in Lahore on May 25, 2025. (Photo by aamir qureshi / AFP)
Lahore Qalanders Captain Shaheen Shah Afridi Lifts The Pakistan Super League Trophy After The Final [Aamir Qureshi/AFP]



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