Fawad Ahmed News

Quetta’s fourth successive loss at the toss continued a trend, as all 12 preliminary round matches have been won by teams chasing with all six captains opting to field first after winning the toss. Peshawar Zalmi, Islamabad and Lahore Qalandars share a three-way tie atop the leaderboard after the conclusion of fourth round matches, with each having won three of their four games. Ashraf sent Cameron Delport’s off-stump cartwheeling off his first delivery before trapping Sarfaraz leg before wicket in his return spell as Quetta could score only one six and a four in their last seven overs.

He said out of the fresh three positive cases, one cricketer belonged to the Islamabad United franchise whose player Fawad Ahmed tested positive on Monday (March 1) sparking a scare in the PSL. The PCB official also said that the test results of one team were still awaited.  Islamabad United player Ahmed’s positive result on Monday led to the postponement of their match against Quetta Gladiators.

Last week there had been an instance of bubble breach when Peshawar Zalmi head coach Darren Sammy and captain Wahab Riaz had unknowingly met team owner Javed Afridi. The Peshawar Zalmi duo were quarantined briefly before being reinstated amid alleged threats of a boycott by the franchise – something that the PCB denies. All remaining members of Islamabad United and the entire Quetta Gladiators squad tested negative, the PCB said.

Ahmed, born in Marghuz in Pakistan, has played three ODIs and two T20Is for his adopted country.

Not impressed with it, Bangladesh coach Chandika Hathurusinghe said Tamim appeared to have had "a brain fade".

Ahmed, born in Marghuz, has played three ODIs and two T20Is for his adopted country.

He went onto score 47 off 22 balls with the help of five sixes.