LAHORE – Lahore Qalandars beat Multan Sultans by 52 runs in the 17th match of the Pakistan Super League (PSL) seventh season at Lahore’s Gaddafi Stadium on Friday.
Lahore Qalandars set a 183-run target for Multan Sultans in 20 overs at the loss of four wickets. Chasing the target, the entire Multan Sultans team collapsed at 130 runs in 19.3 overs.
From Lahore Qalandars’ side, Fakhar Zaman scored 60 runs off 37 balls, Mohammad Hafeez 43 runs off 29 balls and Kamran Ghulam 42 runs off 38 balls.
Multan Sultans’ pacer Anwar Ali took one wicket and conceded 11 runs in two overs, Imran Tahir took one wicket and conceded 30 runs in four overs and Shahnawaz Dahani took one wicket and conceded 31 runs in three overs.
Chasing the target, Multan Sultans batsman Sohaib Maqsood scored 29 runs off 26 balls, Tim David 24 runs off 12 balls and Khushdil Shah 22 runs off 16 balls.
Lahore Qalandars’ bowler Zaman Khan took three wickets and conceded 21 runs in 3.3 overs, Haris Rauf took two wickets and conceded 20 runs in four overs and Shaheen Afridi took two wickets and conceded 26 runs in four overs.
Earlier, unbeaten Multan Sultans won the toss and decided to field first.
The @lahoreqalandars went all out and broke @MultanSultans’s winning streak. It was a match to watch, and there was just the crowd for it. Action has begun in Lahore 🎉 #HBLPSL7 l #LevelHai l #LQvMS pic.twitter.com/4RAU8RZMg3
— PakistanSuperLeague (@thePSLt20) February 11, 2022
Last season’s champions have been unstoppable this time as well as they won six straight games in PSL 2022.
In the first fixture between these two sides Sultans chased down Qalandars’ 206 target in the last over with Shan Masood (83 from 50) and Mohammad Rizwan (69 from 42) setting the tone for the chase before Khushdil Shah smashed 18 runs in the final over.
Lahore have won three games and lost two. The games they have lost have been tight, where they have set 200-plus and been beaten in the last over. The first came against Multan, and the second was their last game, when a Jason Roy century massively assisted in Quetta Gladiators chasing down 204.
The Sultans’ opening batting pair have been devastating. Shan Masood has smashed four fifties, and his partner Mohammad Rizwan has passed the half-century mark on three occasions.
Lower down the order, Tim David has blasted 231 runs, while also striking the ball with the strike rate of 200.
The spin bowling duo for the Sultans has been in good nick, Imran Tahir has taken 11 wickets, and Khushdil Shah has 12.
Head-to-head record
Matches played: 10
Multan Sultans wins: 6
Peshawar Zalmi wins: 4
Squads
Lahore Qalandars: Shaheen Shah Afridi, Rashid Khan, David Wiese, Haris Rauf, Mohammad Hafeez, Sohail Akhtar, Zeeshan Ashraf, Ahmed Daniyal, Fakhar Zaman, Phil Salt, Harry Brook, Abdullah Shafique, Kamran Ghulam, Dean Foxcroft, Zaman Khan, Maaz Khan, Samit Patel, Syed Faridoun
Multan Sultans: Mohammad Rizwan, Rilee Rossouw, Sohaib Maqsood, Imran Tahir, Shan Masood, Khushdil Shah, Shahnawaz Dhani, Tim David, Odean Smith, Rumman Raees, Asif Afridi, Anwar Ali, Rovman Powell, Imran Khan Sr., Abbas Afridi, Amir Azmat, Blessing Muzarabani, Ihsanullah
