KARACHI: David Willey’s phenomenal bowling and Shan Masood’s 88-run helped Multan Sultans to seal a victory against Quetta Gladiators in the seventh match of the Pakistan Super League (PSL) at National Stadium, Karachi on Monday.
The Gladiators were smelling victory in the last over as they needed eight runs from six balls, but Willey did not let them get the better of the Sultans at the National Stadium.
Willey dismissed two players — Sohail Tanvir (13) and Naseem Shah (1) — to take Multan Sultans to a 6-run victory, as Gladiators were all-out at 168, with a ball remaining.
Quetta Gladiators’ innings
Earlier, after being invited to bat, the Sultans managed to hand Quetta a 175-run target in 20 overs for the loss of four wickets. The lead run-scorer of PSL 7, Mohammad Rizwan, was dismissed in the second over — and that too for a duck.
After the skipper went down, Sultans were sailing smoothly, but in the ninth over, James Faulkner was dismissed for 21. During these dismissals, and Rilee Rossouw’s run out in the middle of it, Masood was leading the way and keeping the Mutaln’s boat afloat.
Finally, he was also sent packing in the second ball of the 19th over after scoring 88 runs, with the help of six fours and four sixes. In the last over, Tim David and Khushdil Shah put up a good fight as they scored 16 runs.
Of the seven games played between the two sides, so far, Sultans have won three and Quetta pocketed victories in four games.
Playing XI
Multan Sultans: Shan Masood, Mohammad Rizwan (c)(wk), Sohaib Maqsood, Rilee Rossouw, Tim David, Khushdil Shah, David Willey, Imran Khan, Shahnawaz Dahani, Imran Tahir, Abbas Afridi
Quetta Gladiators: Will Smeed, Ahsan Ali, Ben Duckett, Sarfaraz Ahmed(c)(wk), Iftikhar Ahmed, Mohammad Nawaz, Sohail Tanvir, James Faulkner, Ashir Qureshi, Mohammad Hasnain, Naseem Shah
