{"id":390361,"date":"2026-04-13T20:18:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T20:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/390361\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T20:18:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T20:18:10","slug":"zalmi-increase-lead-in-psl-by-beating-multan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/390361\/","title":{"rendered":"Zalmi increase lead in PSL by beating Multan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Peshawar Zalmi reaffirmed their Pakistan Super League ambitions by beating second-placed Multan Sultans by 24 runs to increase their lead at the top of the standings.<\/p>\n<p>After posting 196-6, Zalmi held firm when Multan needed 51 from the last five overs with six wickets left.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Shan Masood was dismissed for 35 by spinner Iftikhar Ahmed and Zalmi restricted their opponents to 172-8.<\/p>\n<p>Zalmi&#8217;s innings was built around Sri Lanka batter Kusal Mendis, who followed scores of 109 and 74 with 68 from 40 balls.<\/p>\n<p>They now hold a three-point lead at the top of the standings after five wins from six matches.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Franchise Cricket banner\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"158\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/c10b3d4fa64947e5f019910eee53a6b1.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>[BBC]<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1776111490_833_.gif\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Peshawar Zalmi reaffirmed their Pakistan Super League ambitions by beating second-placed Multan Sultans by 24 runs to increase&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":390362,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[185927,85,46,185928,185929,185926,64455,105],"class_list":["post-390361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-iftikhar-ahmed","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-multan-sultans","tag-pakistan-super-league","tag-peshawar-zalmi","tag-shan-masood","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390361\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/390362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}