Lahore Qalandars Vs Rawalpindiz Highlights, PSL 2026: Fakhar Zaman Powers LHQ To 32 Run Victory Over RWP

Greetings and welcome, everyone! We are building up to the start of the 27th Pakistan Super League 2026 match, between Lahore Qalandars and Rawalpindiz. Watch this space for pre-match, toss, playing XIs and live updates.

Rawalpindiz: Mohammad Rizwan (wk/c), Usman Khawaja, Yasir Khan, Daryl Mitchell, Abdullah Fazal, Sam Billings, Saad Masood, Asif Afridi, Mubasir Khan, Ben Sears, Mohammad Amir, Kamran Ghulam, Amad Butt, Cole McConchie, Naseem Shah, Mohammad Amir Khan, Jalat Khan, Dian Forrester, Shahzaib Khan, Fawad Ali, Razaullah

Lahore Qalandars: Fakhar Zaman, Mohammad Naeem, Abdullah Shafique, Charith Asalanka, Sikandar Raza, Haseebullah Khan (wk), Mohammad Farooq, Daniel Sams, Shaheen Afridi (c), Usama Mir, Haris Rauf, Ryan Burl, Asif Ali, Dunith Wellalage, Rubin Hermann, Parvez Hossain Emon, Maaz Khan, Tayyab Tahir, Ubaid Shah

The PSL 2026 matches will not be streamed live in India due to political tensions between the two countries. However, those outside India can watch the match on these platforms listed below:

• Pakistan: Pakistan Television (PTV), A Sports, Geo Super, Ten Sports, Tapmad, Tamasha and Myco

• Australia and New Zealand: ESPN

• USA and Canada: Willow TV, Willow Sports and Willow by Cricbuzz

• United Kingdom: ARY Digital, ARY, Tapmad

• Bangladesh: T Sports, Tapmad

• Sri Lanka: Dialog Television

• Nepal: Tapmad

• MENA (Middle East and Africa): Cricbuzz (also via Cricbuzz TV on ELIFE, Switch TV, StarPlay)

• Rest of the world: Tapmad

Lahore Qalandars have won the toss and elected to bat first against Rawalpindiz.

Rawalpindiz: Mohammad Rizwan (wk/c), Shahzaib Khan, Yasir Khan, Daryl Mitchell, Sam Billings, Dian Forrester, Saad Masood, Cole McConchie, Razaullah, Asif Afridi, Mohammad Amir

Lahore Qalandars: Mohammad Farooq, Fakhar Zaman, Abdullah Shafique, Charith Asalanka, Haseebullah Khan (wk), Sikandar Raza, Asif Ali, Daniel Sams, Shaheen Afridi (c), Usama Mir, Haris Rauf

Fakhar Zaman and Mohammad Farooq open the batting for the Qalandars, with Fakhar Zaman on strike first. Asif Afridi gets things underway with the ball for Rawalpindiz, conceding just two runs off the final over. Cole McConchie goes for 11 in the next over with Farooq hitting a couple of boundaries to open his arms.

LQ: 28/0 (3)

Mohammad Farooq and Fakhar Zaman get Lahore Qalandars off to a flying start at the National Stadium in Karachi. It's a flat pitch and both the batter have made the most of the conditions to build a solid base for the next batters.

LHQ 69/0 (6)

Half of the innings is completed and Lahore still haven't lost a single wicket while maintaining a high run-rate of 12 runs per over. Both Fakhar Zaman and Mohammad Farooq have belted Rawalpindi bowlers to all parts of the ground.

LHQ 121/0 (10)

Out! RWP finally get the first wicket and it's the Mohammad Amir, who departs after blazing a fiery 63 off 41 balls. Abdullah Shafique joins Fakhar Zaman in the middle.

LHQ 135/1 (12)

Fakhar Zaman brings up a 30-ball fifty and since fifty, he has been ultra aggressive and forged a 54-run partnership with Abdullah Shafique in no time.

KHQ 175/1 (16)

Asif Ali smashed two sixes off the last two balls to take Lahore to 210 in 20 overs. Fakhar Zaman turned out to the highest scorer of the innings with 84 runs of 54 balls.

LHQ 210/4 (20)

Captain Mohammad Rizwan and Shahzaib Khan get Rawalpindiz' chase of a 211-run target underway. Rizwan's opposite number Shaheen Afridi opens the bowling for the Qalandars, giving away just seven runs in the first over. After a middling over by Charith Asalanka, Shaheen returns to dislodge Shahzaib as well as Rizwan in the space of three balls!

Just as it was looking that RWP are coming back into the chase, Haris Rauf gets the priced wicket of Daryl Mitchell, who departs after scoring 11 off 15 balls. Meanwhile, Yasir Khan is still batting at the other end at 58 off just 28 balls.

RWP 88/3 (9.2)

Haris Rauf completely derails Rawalpindi's chase by picking up the wickets of set batters - Yasir Khan and Daryl Mitchell in a single over followed by Sam Billings' wicket, who was . The chase is getting out of RWP's hands quite quickly now.

RWP 104/5 (12)

Rawalpindi lose another wicket as Daniel Sams gets the wicket of Razaullah for 5 runs. The chase is done and dusted for Rawalpindi as they still need a whopping 77 off 18 balls with two wickets LEFT.

RWP 140/8 (17)

Rawalpindi end the match with a four but it borne no impact in the context of the match as Lahore Qalandars thrashed Rawalpindi by 32 runs. Haris Rauf was the pick of the bowlers for LHQ, with three wickets.

LHQ 178/9 (20)