Usman's fastest century and Afridi five-for eliminate Gladiators in runfest
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The 28th Match of the Pakistan Super League, 2023 was played today between Quetta Gladiators vs Multan Sultans at Pindi Club Ground, Rawalpindi. In which Multan Sultans defeated Quetta Gladiators by 9 runs.
Quetta Gladiators won the toss and invited Multan Sultans to bat first, Multan Sultans batted first started the inning very strongly, Usman Khan and Mohammad Rizwan came to start the inning and gave a very strong start with a cantury and a half-century paernership of 157 runs for the first wicket, the first wicket has gone for 157 runs in last ball of the 10th over, Usman Khan dismissed after playing a very brilliant quick century inning of 120 runs with the help of 9 powerfull sixes and 12 bounadires in just 43 balls, next batsman Rilee Rossouw came to bat and handled the inning with Mohammad Rizwan, the second wicket has gone for 187 runs in 12.5 overs, Rilee Rossouw dismissed for 15 runs in 9 balls, next batsman Tim David came to bat, after a while the third wicket has gone for 204 runs in 14.3 over, Mohammad Rizwan dismissed after playing a very brilliant quick half-century inning of 55 runs with the help of 2 sixes and 6 boundaires in just 29 balls, followed by Kieron Pollard came to bat and he played an unbeaten inning of 23 runs with the help of 1 six and 2 boundaries in just 14 balls with Tim David, and Tim David also played a very brilliant quick unbeaten inning of 43 runs with the help of 4 sixes and 1 boundary in just 25 balls. In this way, Multan Sultans scored 262 runs for losing just 3 wickets in the stipulated 20 overs and set a very strong target of 263 runs in front of Quetta Gladiators.
Quetta Gladiators bowlers Qais Ahmad took 2 wickets for 77 runs, and Mohammad Nawaz got 1 wicket for 50 runs.
Quetta Gladiators chasing 263 runs in the second inning they could manage just 253 runs after losing 8 wickets in the stipulated 20 overs. Quetta Gladiators started the inning very brillinatly, althought the first wicket has dismissed just for 14 runs, Jason Roy and Martin Guptil came to start the inning, the first wicket has gone for 14 runs in 1.4 over, Jason Roy dismissed just for 6 runs in 6 balls, next batsman Omair Yousuf came to bat and handled the inning with Martin Guptill, the second wicket has gone for 60 runs in 4.3 over, Martin Guptill dismissed after playing a very brilliant quick inning of 37 runs with the help of 4 powerfull sixes and 2 boundaires in just 14 balls, next batsman Mohammad Hafeez dismissed just for 1 run in 2 balls as third wicket in first ball of the 6th over, the team score was 68 runs, followed by Iftikhar Ahmed came to bat handled the inning and played a very brilliant century partnership of 104 runs with Omair Yousuf, the fourth wicket has gone for 172 runs in 14.4 over, Iftikhar Ahmed dismissed after playing a brilliant half-century inning of 53 runs with the help of 4 sixes and 4 boundaires in just 31 balls, next batsman Umar Akmal came to bat, in meanwhile the fifth wicket has also gone for 178 runs in first ball of the 16th over, Omair Yousuf dismissed after playing a very brilliant quick half-century inning of 67 runs with the help of 3 sixes and 7 boundaries in just 36 balls, next batsman Mohammad Nawaz came to bat and played well for a while with Umar Akmal, the sixth wicket has gone for 208 runs in 16.5 over, Mohammad Nawaz dismissed for 16 runs in just 7 balls, followed by Umaid Asif came to bat and he dismissed very quickly in just 1 ball as seventh wicket in last ball of the 17th over, the team score was 208 runs, after that Qais Ahmad came to bat and played well with Umar Akmal, the 8th wicket dismissed for 221 runs in first ball of the 19th over, Umar Akmal dismissed after playing a quick inning of 16 runs with the help of 3 sixes and 2 boundaries in just 10 balls, followed by Naveen-ul-Haq came to bat and he played a quick unbeaten inning of 17 runs with the help of 3 boundaires in just 7 balls with Qais Ahmad , and Qais Ahmad also played an unbeaten inning of 17 runs in just 17 balls. In this way, Quetta Gladiators could manage just 253 runs after losing 8 wickets in the stipulated 20 overs and lost the match by 9 runs.
Multan Sultans bowler Abbas Afridi performed very brilliant bowling, he took 5 wickets just for 47 runs, Ihsanullah 2 wickets for 58 runs, and Anwar Ali got 1 wicket for 48 runs in 3 overs.
Multan Sultans bowler Abbas Afridi was selected as the best player of the match, he performed very brilliant bowling took 5 wickets just for 47 runs in his spell.
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