PSL 2022: Multan Sultans thrash Islamabad United by 20 runs

Karachi: Multan Sultans thrashed Islamabad United by 20 runs on Tuesday in the eighth match of the Pakistan Super League's (PSL) seventh edition.

Shadab Khan's 91 wasted as Sultans beat United. After the top order's early collapse, Shadab Khan played a sensational inning and scored 91 runs off 42 balls with the help of five fours and nine sixes.

No other batter could score even 25 runs against a strong Multan Sultans' bowling attack, who were able to restrict the United to 197 for the loss of 10 wickets in 20 overs.

Khushdil Shah picked up four wickets, David Willey three, while Anwar Ali and Rumman Raees took a scalp each.

Multan's Innings

Multan Sultans set 218-run target for Islamabad United.

Tim David (71) and Rilee Rossouw (67) played exceptionally well to help Multan Sultans hand a 218-run target to Islamabad United.

After being invited to bat first at the National Stadium, the Sultans were in a fix as Mohammad Rizwan (12) and Sohaib Maqsood (13) were dismissed under five overs.

But Shan Masood kept playing and scored 43 runs off 31 balls with the help of five fours and two sixes. His partnership with Rossouw ended in the ninth over when Marchant de Lange got his wicket.

Later, Rossouw and David punished the United's bowlers and put up impressive runs on the board. In the 19th over, Mohammad Wasim dismissed David for 71, but the damage had been done.

The last over was also good for the Sultan as Hasan Ali took a wicket but Rossouw kept the scoreboard ticking and added 21 runs to the total, with the help of three sixes.

Earlier, Islamabad United won the toss and elected to bowl first against Multan Sultans in the eighth match of the ongoing seventh edition of the Pakistan Super League (PSL) at National Stadium Karachi.

The match started at 07:30 Pakistan Standard Time. 

It is noteworthy here that Islamabad have won their only game, whereas Multan have won all three of their games. 

Squads: 

Islamabad United: Shadab Khan (c), Asif Ali, Athar Mahmood, Azam Khan (wk), Danish Aziz Marchant de Lange, Faheem Ashraf, Alex Hales, Hasan Ali, Mohammad Huraira, Mohammad Wasim, Mubasir Khan, Muhammad Akhlaq (wk) Muhammad Musa, Colin Munro, Rahmanullah Gurbaz (wk) Paul Stirling, Zafar Gohar, Zahir Khan, Zeeshan Zameer. 

Multan Sultans: Mohammad Rizwan (wk, c) Aamer Azmat. Abbas Afridi, Anwar Ali, Asif Afridi, Johnson Charles (wk), Tim David, Dominic Drakes. Ihsanullah, Imran Khan, Imran Tahir, Khushdil Shah, Blessing Muzarabani, Rovman Powell, Rizwan Hussain, Rilee Rossouw, Rumman Raees, Shahnawaz Dahani, Shan Masood, Sohaib Maqsood.