IU vs PZ Head to Head Records in PSL history | Islamabad United vs Peshawar Zalmi Stats | PSL 2021 Eliminator 2

IU vs PZ Head to Head Records: The SportsRush presents for you the Head to Head statistics for PSL 2021 Eliminator 2.

The second eliminator of the ongoing sixth season of the Pakistan Super League will be played between Islamabad United and Peshawar Zalmi in Abu Dhabi tonight.

In what will be the second knockout match of PSL 2021, both teams will have to register a victory to move towards the final of the tournament against Multan Sultans.

Table-toppers in the league stage, United’s winning streak was brought to a halt last night by Sultans after they failed to chase a 181-run target at the same venue.

Better placed than Karachi Kings on the points table, Peshawar sealed a 176-run chase in the last over on the back of opening batsman Hazratullah Zazai scoring his second PSL 2021 half-century on Monday.

IU vs PZ Head to Head Records in PSL

Total number of matches played: 15

Matches won by IU: 7

Matches won by PZ: 7

Matched played in Pakistan: 5 (IU 1, PZ 3)

Matches played in UAE: 10 (IU 6, PZ 4)

IU average score against PZ: 164

PZ average score against IU: 158

Most runs for IU: 179 (Asif Ali)

Most runs for PZ: 439 (Kamran Akmal)

Most wickets for IU: 10 (Shadab Khan)

Most wickets for PZ: 21 (Wahab Riaz)

Most catches for IU: 6 (Faheem Ashraf)

Most catches for PZ: 7 (Wahab Riaz and Kamran Akmal)

The last time when United and Zalmi had faced each other was at the Sheikh Zayed Cricket Stadium less than a week ago. Asked to bat first by Peshawar captain Wahab Riaz, Islamabad scored a gargantuan 247/2 in 20 overs primarily due to Usman Khawaja scoring a match-winning 105* (56) with the help of 13 fours and three sixes.

HUGE from Usman Khawaja overnight for @IsbUnited!#HBLPSL6 pic.twitter.com/9u7bJ5hMqT

— 7Cricket (@7Cricket) June 18, 2021

A high-scoring clash witnessed Zalmi lagging behind by 15 runs despite quickfire half-centuries from veteran batsmen Shoaib Malik (68) and Kamran Akmal (53).

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Born and brought up in Pathankot, Dixit Bhargav is an engineering and sports management graduate who works as a Cricket Editor at The SportsRush. Having written more than 10,000 articles across more than five years at TSR, his first cricketing memory dates back to 2002 when former India captain Sourav Ganguly had waved his jersey at the historic Lord’s balcony. What followed for an 8-year-old was an instant adulation for both Ganguly and the sport. The optimist in him is waiting for the day when Punjab Kings will win their maiden Indian Premier League title. When not watching cricket, he is mostly found in a cinema hall watching a Punjabi movie.

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