Shan Masood (eighty-three) and Mohammad Rizwan (69) starred within the highest successful chase in the PSL history as Multan Sultans overhauled Lahore Qalandars' 206 with balls and 5 wickets to spare to make it in two, on the National Stadium in Karachi on Saturday (January 29).
Chasing a stiff target, the Sultans had been off to a dream start with both the openers notching up brisk Nineteen Fifties. The pair went on to publish a 150-run opening stand to hold their aspect continually ahead of the asking price and lay the perfect platform. They scored sixty-six inside the powerplay, and Masood quickly went directly to outscore his companion to bring up a 28-ball fifty at the beginning of the 9th over, and by way of the quit of it, Sultans had already breached the one hundred-run mark. Rizwan raised his 2nd successive fifty, off 28 deliveries. Even as Rashid Khan turned into the handiest one able to limit the drift of runs in his overs, he failed to pretty get the identical assist from the other give up. After giving simply sixteen from his first-3 overs, Rashid came in the firing line as Masood slammed one over the cow nook to convey up the one hundred fifty of the partnership. but, it became the Afghanistan spinner who got his crew a great deal needed step forward as he made a strong comeback off the very next transport to fox the Sultans opener with a wrong'un. by the point Rashid wrapped up his quota, the equation changed into already down to 51 of 30 however it didn't assist in dropping Rizwan in brief succession. Qalandars noticed a glimmer of desire whilst their skipper, Shaheen Afridi - having leaked 39 for 1 in his first three - came returned to bowl an amazing nineteenth over in which he conceded simplest one run and accounted for big hitters Tim David and Sohaib Maqsood one ball aside. but, Haris Rauf struggled to nail his yorkers in the final overs and Khushdil Shah took full toll. With 16 wanted off the remaining six, he dispatched the primary 3 returned over the bowler's head, via greater cover, and point respectively to fetch three obstacles before sprucing off the record chase with a six in a lovely cameo of 18 off simply 4.
In advance within the day, it was Fakhar Zaman's brutal assault that laid the platform for Qalandars' 200-plus overall - the first of the season. Zaman launched a flurry of limitations in his 35-ball 76, getting to his fifty in only 22. He become the aggressor inside the 89-run beginning stand with Abdullah Shafique, who made a 22-ball 24 before falling in the 9th over.
Zaman fell quickly after, having hit eleven fours and a couple of sixes but even as Kamran Ghulam kept the runs coming from one quit, Sultans controlled to apply the brakes. It changed into courtesy David Wiese and Rashid - who each smashed two sixes apiece inside the last overs - that Qalandars succeeded in posting 206/five for his or her allotted overs.
Quick scores: Lahore Qalandars 206 for 5 in 20 overs (Fakhar Zaman 76, Kamran Ghulam forty-three; Khushdil Shah 1-14) lost to Multan Sultans 209 for 5 in 19. four overs (Shan Masood 83, Mohammad Rizwan sixty-nine; Shaheen Afridi three-forty, Rashid Khan 1-28) utilizing five wickets.