The equation had boiled down to 17 runs from 10 balls. With six wickets in hand, on paper, it was Peshawar Zalmi's game. However, Quetta Gladiators had made a superb fightback to bring the equation down to that. Sabbir Rahman had just hit a boundary, but for 24 balls before that, there was none. The platform which was laid by the 54-run stand between Mohammad Hafeez and Tamim Iqbal seemed all but lost. Even their partnership, towards the end, seemed to stutter and slow down.
And just then, Sabbir looked to play a slog sweep. Good for him that the ball was a low full toss. But he failed to connect it and holed out to the fielder at deep mid wicket. Zalmi's chase seemed to have fallen apart way too easily. But just then, walked out the captain. Darren Sammy, who had walked off the field a couple of hours before due to a knee injury decided to rescue the side with the bat.
He was struggling to run, hopping his way between wickets. But all it took him was four balls to seal the deal - 2 sixes, a boundary and 16 runs in the space of all that. A game in which they seemed to have lost after everything was in control, was revived and won with five wickets in hand and two balls to spare. Sammy threw his bat, stretched and everyone from the Zalmi dugout came charging on to the field to celebrate the victory.
