Kamran Akmal

Asif Ali's three successive sixes off Hasan Ali in the 16th over tilts the scales in Islamabad's favour after a sensational middle-order collapse

Opener's 27-ball 77 sets up huge total, before bowlers suppress Karachi's steady surge to give Peshawar an opportunity to defend their crown

Peshawar Zalmi piggy-backed on Kamran Akmal's fourth T20 century, and second fifty-plus score in as many days, to brush aside Lahore Qalandars by seven wickets

Peshawar dominated Karachi in a must-win game and completed a massive 44-run victory to open up the race for semi-final spots

The defending champions managed to retain the spine of the title-winning team from last year and look formidable heading into this edition

The middle-order batsmen put together a fifth-wicket stand of 120 after WAPDA had taken four wickets early on

Lahore Whites and Lahore Blues triumphed over Faisalabad and FATA respectively as Saeed Ajmal bowed out in Rawalpindi

The pair added an unbroken 209-run partnership as Lahore Whites thumped Islamabad by 109 runs

In the day's second game, Sarfraz Ahmed and Anwar Ali completed a slender win for Karachi Whites over Peshawar

While Lahore Whites' 213 proved to be too much for FATA, Anwar Ali's 4 for 30 meant Rawalpindi fell short of their target against Karachi Whites

Players from Pakistan, the West Indies, Bangladesh and Zimbabwe were among those who went under the hammer in the highest-profile auction yet for Afghanistan's domestic T20 league, the Shpageeza Cricket League, in Kabul on Thursday

The development marks a tumultuous three months for Azhar, who was captain of that side in Australia, before being stripped of the leadership role and omitted from the ODI squad altogether.

Ahmed Shehzad, who had been overlooked for a year, also finds a spot in the limited-overs squads for the tour of West Indies. Azhar Ali, the former 50-over captain, was dropped

All the runs scored away from cameras in domestic cricket in the last two years could easily be written off by cynics, but Kamran Akmal's chart-topping exploits in the PSL are much harder to ignore

Kamran Akmal's 104, the first century of the 2017 Pakistan Super League, to propel Peshawar Zalmi past Karachi Kings by 24 runs and into the final on Sunday in Lahore

Lahore lost five wickets for one run to stumble in their chase of 167 and fell short by 17 runs in their PSL clash against Peshawar in Dubai

Brad Haddin struck 73 off 39 balls to power defending champions Islamabad United to a seven-wicket win over Peshawar Zalmi on the opening night of PSL 2017

A round-up of the fourth round of Quaid-e-Azam 2016-17 matches, also featuring a counterattacking hundred from Kamran Akmal

A five-wicket haul from Zia-ul-Haq led National Bank of Pakistan into the final of the National One-Day Cup with a six-wicket win over United Bank Limited at the Gaddafi Stadium