Multan sultan defeated Lahore Qalandars at their home ground. Qalanders scored 138 with the loss of 8 wickets this is the pitch where run can be scored but Qalandars failed to spread their magic yet again and Multan Sultan Outplayed Qalandars, its Multan Sultan’s 5-wicket victory against Lahore Qalandar.
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Match Summary
Multan Sultan won the toss and opted to field first.
Lahore was good at the start of the innings as openers Fakhar Zaman and Chirs Lynn scored 59 runs in the first 5 overs. It seemed like they both will set a grand total but all of sudden top and middle order collapsed and from 59 runs to 63 three players were back to the pavilion. Muhammad Hafeez scored just 14 runs while Cris Lynn scored 39 on 19 and Fakhar Zaman scored 63 runs.
Later Skipper scored 39 and was unbeatable. The middle-order miserably failed to score double figures and set the total target set of 138/8 in 20 overs.
Multan’s innings started with skipper Shan Masood and James Vince, Shan scored 38 runs and misses the ball-playing across the line and bowled by Wiese while James scored 18 and Shaheed Shah Afridi took his wicket.
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Riley Rosso hits back with 2 fours and 1 six and put his team at the threshold of victory with his contribution of 32 runs. Then Afridi came with the bang and scored 21 on 12 balls by hitting one six and two fours he didn’t disappoint his fans and scored the winning runs with the boundary. Multan easily achieved their target in 16.1 overs with the loss of 5 wickets.
Brief Score
(Lahore Qalandars) Chris Lynn 39, Sohail Akhtar 34, Fakhar 19, Imran Tahir 2/22
(Multan Sultan) Shan Masood 38, Rilee Rossouw 32, Shahid Afridi 21, Shaheen Afridi 1/18
Player of the Match
Imran Tahir was the player of the match with 2 wickets for 21. Spinners helped Sultans to achieve this victory Moeen Ali and Muhammad Ilyas also took 2 2 wickets and they were phenomenal throughout the match.
