Lahore Qalandars 206/5
Multan Sultans (19.4/20 ov,
Sultans won by 5 wickets (with 2 balls remaining)
Sultans wanted 16 of the closing over, and Khushdil sealed the win with 4 consecutive boundaries
Multan Sultans 209 for 5 (Masood eighty-three, Rizwan 69, Khushdil 18, Afridi 3-forty) beat Lahore Qalandars 206 for 5 (Zaman 76, Ghulam 43) by five wickets
The fifties from Mohammad Rizwan and Shan Masood, accompanied by way of a few past-due strength-hitting from Khushdil Shah, helped Multan Sultans pull off the best a successful chase in PSL records, against Lahore Qalandars in Karachi.
Faced with a steep goal of 207, Sultans made a fast start to their innings, with the openers Masood and Rizwan racing to one hundred fifty interior 15 overs. Masood was initially the extra aggressive foil, slamming 14 fours and a six for his 50-ball 83, earlier than Rizwan additionally picked up the pace, scoring 69 - his second consecutive half of-century - with six fours and three sixes.
However, Rashid Khan halted that momentum as he struck to dispose of Masood inside the 15th over, and David Wiese observed it up with a cheap six-run over. That left Sultans desiring forty-five from the remaining 4 overs. When Shaheen Shah Afridi bowled Rizwan inside the seventeenth over, Qalandars seemed to have wrested the benefit, but Sohaib Maqsood and Rilee Rossouw clubbed the fast bowler for three limitations at once.
With the healthy finely poised, Afridi struck more decisive blows in the penultimate over, removing each Maqsood and Tim David. That brought the equation right down to sixteen runs needed off the closing over, bowled by using Haris Rauf with Khushdil on strike. Going into this sport, no chasing crew in PSL history had ever scored greater than sixteen runs off the very last over.
Khushdil, but, modified that, as he sealed the 5-wicket victory with 4 swings of his bat. He blasted Rauf for 3 consecutive fours, earlier than finishing off with a six-over cover.
Earlier, Qalandars had made 206 for five, at the lower back of a speedy 1/2-century from their opener Fakhar Zaman. He shared an 89-run establishing stand with Abdullah Shafique, earlier than being brushed off for a 35-ball seventy-six inside the twelfth over. Kamran Ghulam (43 off 31) stored the score ticking before Wiese and Rashid chipped in with on-hand blows down the order to push the full beyond 200.
