Multan Sultans have raced into the Pakistan Super League playoffs with a simple win over Karachi Kings on the National Stadium in Karachi on Sunday. Well powered by Usman Khan’s hundred, the Sultans made 189 within the first innings earlier than limiting the house facet to 169. With this, they’ve become the first team to attain into the PSL playoffs after securing six victories in seven video games.
The Kings had been with out Kieron Pollard, who travelled to India for the pre-wedding perform of Anant Ambani and Radhika Merchant. In his absence, the Kings introduced Leus de Plooy into the Playing XI and in addition changed Anwar Ali with Mir Hamza. However, they missed Pollard in a giant means because the Kings had been at all times enjoying catch-up within the run chase. Chasing a goal of 190 and a required charge of 9.50, they misplaced key batters Tim Seifert and James Vince fairly early. When Shoaib Malik and skipper Shan Masood tried inflicting hope into the house facet, they misplaced the previous for 38 within the twelfth over with the team solely at 89.Â
Even although they had been hanging to not let the required charge exit of hand fully, the Kings hit their first six within the 14th over after going 5 down. That didn’t assist issues both as by then the required charge had crossed 12 and the Kings had solely 5 wickets in hand. Mohammad Nawaz, Irfan Khan and Hasan Ali tried doing the inconceivable however issues went out of hand as they slumped to a 25-run loss.Â
Usman Khan, who made 96 in Multan’s earlier match, received to his three-figure mark this time round with a stellar knock of 106* from 59 balls. Apart from him, captain Rizwan made 58 from 44 balls to energy the team to a good-looking whole of 189.Â
Multan are the first team to attain the PSL playoffs. They are the table-toppers of the season and have misplaced just one sport to Peshawar Zalmi. Meanwhile, Karachi Kings have 2 wins of their 6 video games.
