Usama getting rid of the tail quickly, bowls a beautiful legbreak that turned sharply from leg and crashed onto the stumps.
Sultans vs Gladiators, 30th Match at Karachi, PSL, Mar 12 2024 - Match Result
That's all for today. We'll be back with playoffs action after a day's break. We hope you enjoyed our coverage. Until next time, it's goodbye and goodnight from me, Rvel Zahid
Multan Sultans are back to business as usual and have sent a loud and clear warning to the other three teams that they're hungry for another title. They finish at the top of the tree with 14 points. It was a resounding win as they outclassed Quetta Gladiators in all departments of the game. Multan Sultans and Peshawar Zalmi will lock horns in the Qualifier 1 while Quetta Gladiators will face Islamabad United in the Eliminator 1. David Willey triggered the slide in the powerplay and then Abbas Afridi and Usama Mir didn't allow them to get off the hook. We didn't get a nail-biter today, unlike the story of last week. It wasn't the highest quality of cricket from Quetta but they have some time to gather their thoughts and remap their strategy before the all-important playoffs. On a tricky surface, Mohammad Rizwan and Johnson Charles did the bulk of the scoring for a par score and then Iftikhar Ahmed put the cherry on top with an eight-ball 20-run cameo. In reply, Quetta were going nowhere with the chase and their progress was beset by frequent loss of wickets. The fate of the game was decided once the top guns were neutralized early in the piece
Here's the updates points table at the end of league stage:
Lovely googly that spun back, but he's equal to the task and shields his stumps well
Taha: "@Motown Faheem Ashraf is another candidate. He's got plenty of experience"
Beauty, fuller and slides across off appreciably, lunges forward and more fresh air
Play and a miss, flight and rip, turns away outside off,
Airing it fuller on middle, squeezing his room, defended to cover with a smile
Goes fuller on middle, hopping into the line plinked out to cover-point
Mean short ball at his shoulder, fended to point
KKIANI: "Arafat Minhas is a quality all rounder as per U-19 world cup but was not utilized properly. Saim Ayub is the other option for good all rounder. This PSL produce quality spinners Mehran Mumtaz , Saim Ayub"
Abrar threw the kitchen sink at it, shortish and hung away outside off, he wanted to pump that over midwicket but ended up nicking it back to the bowler, clear sound of the bat
Gets the wide yorker right, scratches it away awkwardly towards mid-off
Wohoho! Goes full on leg, he whacks it in the air with all his gung ho-ness over deep backward square for a six, it mostly stays a hit when he swing it like a swinging door
Shrieking for an lbw and finger stays down. Targets the knee roll, it landed on shortish length and hit the thigh on the back leg as he tried to lift him up and over midwicket, pitched outside leg and let's save some time
Delicious slower mysterious legbreak turning away markedly from a length outside off, two slips lurking, he was uncertain what to do with it, lucky it didn't find an edge
Bemused him with a peach of a wrong'un that pitches full and spins sharply to uproot middle pole, execution was perfect, that's more like it. Gotta toss it up and allows it to spin. Amir stepped down and looked to swing him over midwicket, didn't account for the turn, Usama was supremely accurate on this occasion, it was too good for a tailender
Slower ball, fuller length and it turns away from middle, draws him forward in defends, takes the outside edge and dribbles away to short third, a quicker through would have created trouble
Fuller legbreak, down on one knee and tries to slog sweep him, can't time it well
Fired it quick and full at middle, he is firmly rooted in his crease, straight bat dogged block
Quicker legbreak just outside off, makes room and slashes it away to short backward point
On a length and kept going with the arm away from marker on off, wide called
Motown: "@Malik - Aamer Jamal maybe, although his bowling hasn't been consistent. Jahandad Khan perhaps for the future. Otherwise Shadab seems to still be the only legitimate all rounder."
Goes full with full force, drills it downtown and long-on makes a well-timed intervention to prevent a boundary
Hurls an intimidating bumper on a suffocating off-stump line, lifts his leg and tries to power it over the keeper's head, beaten by the pace and searing bounce
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National Stadium, Karachi | |
Toss | Quetta Gladiators, elected to field first |
Series | |
Season | 2023/24 |
Player Of The Match | |
Hours of play (local time) | 21.00 start, First Session 21.00-22.30, Interval 22.30-22.50, Second Session 22.50-00.20 |
Match days | 12 March 2024 - night (20-over match) |
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Match Referee | |
Points | Multan Sultans 2, Quetta Gladiators 0 |
Over 16 • QG 106/10