In the eighth edition of the Pakistan Super League, Multan Sultans continued their excellent form and defeated Quetta Gladiators thanks to Usman Khan’s record-breaking fastest century.
In the match played at the Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium, Quetta Gladiators won the toss and decided to bowl first, which proved to be very disastrous.
Usman Khan, who played the first match in the tournament, took an aggressive approach from the first over and along with captain Muhammad Rizwan, established a partnership of 157 runs in just 10 overs.
Taking full advantage of the opportunity, Usman Khan first completed a half-century in just 22 balls and then showed more smoky batting in the next 14 balls, reaching three digits by scoring a century in just 36 balls, the fastest of the event. Recorded a century.
Usman played a brilliant innings of 120 runs off just 43 balls with the help of 9 towering sixes and 12 fours.
Riley Russo, who scored a century in just 41 balls yesterday, this time ended on just 15 runs and he became the wicket of Qais Ahmed.
Captain Rizwan Ahmed scored 55 runs off 29 balls with the help of six fours and two sixes, but Qais put a full stop to his innings.
In the last five overs, Tim David and Kieran Pollard added 58 runs while batting aggressively, Tim David scored 43 runs while Pollard scored 23 runs.
Multan Sultans scored 262 runs for the loss of 3 wickets in the allotted overs and made the highest total in the history of the tournament on the scoreboard.
Qais was the most successful bowler for Quetta Gladiators with 2 wickets but for that he conceded 77 runs in his quota of 4 overs and proved to be the most expensive bowler in the history of the league.
In pursuit of the target, Gladiators’ innings did not start well and Jason Roy, who played an innings of 145 runs against Peshawar Zalmi, returned to the pavilion in the first over.
Martin Guptill went on the offensive and combined with Umir bin Yousaf to take the score to 60, but Guptill’s 14-ball 37-run innings, laced with 4 sixes, kept going.
Gladiators were not even able to recover from this loss as Mohammad Hafeez also became the wicket of Abbas Afridi after scoring only one run.
After the fall of three wickets for 68 runs, Iftikhar Ahmed came in to support Umair and the duo put on a 104-run partnership for the fourth wicket to bring the Gladiators back into the match.
Iftikhar Ahmed scored 53 runs off 31 balls and Umair played 67 runs off 36 balls but then both players lost their wickets one after another.
Umar Akmal also showed a few hands and played an innings of 28 runs off 10 balls, while in the final overs, Qais Ahmed and Naveen-ul-Haq played turns of 17 and 17 runs, but even this effort of theirs proved to be insufficient to give victory to the Gladiators.
During the innings, Abbas Afridi also accomplished the feat of dismissing Mohammad Nawaz, Umeed Asif and Umar Akmal Akmal on three consecutive balls.
Quetta Gladiators team managed to score 253 runs for the loss of 8 wickets in the allotted overs and Multan Sultans won by 9 wickets.
On behalf of Multan Sultans, Abbas Afridi bowled the best and took 5 wickets including a hat-trick while Ehsanullah took two wickets.
With this defeat, the Quetta Gladiators team has been eliminated from the play-off stage of the Pakistan Super League.
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2024-07-29 02:28:40
