Multan Sultans have raced into the Pakistan Tremendous League playoffs with a simple win over Karachi Kings on the Nationwide Stadium in Karachi on Sunday. Effectively powered by Usman Khan’s hundred, the Sultans made 189 within the first innings earlier than proscribing the house facet to 169. With this, they’ve turn into the primary crew to achieve into the PSL playoffs after securing six victories in seven video games.
The Kings have been with out Kieron Pollard, who travelled to India for the pre-wedding perform of Anant Ambani and Radhika Service provider. In his absence, the Kings introduced Leus de Plooy into the Taking part in XI and in addition changed Anwar Ali with Mir Hamza. Nonetheless, they missed Pollard in an enormous method because the Kings have been all the time taking part in catch-up within the run chase. Chasing a goal of 190 and a required fee 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 crew solely at 89.
Though they have been hanging to not let the required fee 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 fee 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.
Usman Khan, who made 96 in Multan’s earlier match, acquired to his three-figure mark this time round with a stellar knock of 106* from 59 balls. Other than him, captain Rizwan made 58 from 44 balls to energy the crew to a good-looking complete of 189.
Multan are the primary crew to achieve the PSL playoffs. They’re the table-toppers of the season and have misplaced just one recreation to Peshawar Zalmi. In the meantime, Karachi Kings have 2 wins of their 6 video games.