Ms Vs LQ Highlights: Qalandars Suffer Sixth Consecutive Defeat by Usman Khan and Usama Mir.
Defending Champions Lahore Qalandars lost their sixth straight match of the Pakistan Super League season nine to table-toppers Multan Sultans.
Multan posted 214/4 before restricting Shaheen’s men to 154, thereby winning by 60 runs. Usama Mir was Multan’s bowling star as, he claimed career-best figures of 6/40 in four overs. They are fourth on the list of best bowling figures in the tournament.
Fakhar Zaman and Sahibzada Farhan began with a partnership that looked solid for the first wicket, but there were no other significant contributions after their dismissal. In his sixteenth delivery faced by Aftab Ibrahim, Fakhar got bowled out by a scorching yorker, thus adding 23 runs to his total score.
A total of 31 runs marked a commendable batting performance by Farhan until he, was dismissed off Khushdil Shah ball. The early wickets made it difficult while Rassie van der Dussen attempted to consolidate, but insufficient support, was received from his teammates.
Kamran Ghulam and Sikandar Raza followed suit. Both fell victim to Faisal Akram with scores of 12 (off nine balls) and 17 (off seven balls), respectively. Multan ended their innings at 214-4 from their assigned twenty overs, in which they had batted first and made a strong comeback.
In the initial innings of PSL 9 away from home, Multan was selected to bat. However, Lahore got an early breakthrough when Shaheen Afridi dismissed Mohammad Rizwan in the first over. Then the Sultans were back on course with Reeza Hendricks and Usman Khan forming a brilliant 70-run partnership before Sikandar Raza unseated the former one.
He struck seven boundaries, including one six, his way to scoring 40 off just 27 balls. Scoring at run a ball Usman, play aggressively as he shared a dominant third wicket stand with Tayyab Tahir, who turned out to be an empty scorecard after amassing only 77 runs off 40 balls.
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By Carlos Brathwaite in the fifteenth over for 21 is all Tahir could manage, leaving them at 151 on the scoreboard. Iftikhar Ahmed joined Khan and wreaked havoc with an unbeaten cameo of forty runs that came off eighteen balls, hitting two fours and three sixes.
But scoring 96 off fifty-five deliveries, littered with thirteen fours, including two maximums. It fell short by four runs of being a hundred as he, was caught by Carlos Brathwaite in the last over, thus getting out.
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