8 runs needed in the last over to win. Imad Wasim struck Naseem Shah with one run off pacer Mohammad Ali’s first ball. Nasim took the match in hand by hitting a boundary on the second ball. 4 requires 3.
If two runs are scored in the next two balls, it takes only 1 from 2 balls. Islamabad United’s victory was then only a matter of time. Drama again at such a time. On the fifth ball, Ali dismissed Nasim, who played a 17-run 9-ball innings.
As a result, Islamabad needed 1 run from the last ball. The Multan camp did not give up. If there is a dot, then the match is super over. But Naseem Shah could not finish but his brother Hunain Shah hit a boundary in the last ball. The Islamabad camp burst into cheers.
Multan Sultans reached the final of the Pakistan Super League for the fourth time in a row. But behind this success there are also stories of failure. They became champions in 2021. In the next two seasons, dreams are broken in the finals.
For the third time in a row, Multan had to suffer from the pain of breaking their dreams in the final. Shadab Khan’s Islamabad United won the PSL title for the third time after defeating Mohammad Rizwan’s team by 2 wickets in a tight fight. Earlier, the team won the championship in 2016 and 2018.
Islamabad was set a target of 160 runs to win in the final held in Karachi. Opener Martin Guptill scored 50 from 32 balls and Azam Khan scored 30 from 22 balls, but they lost 7 wickets for 129 runs due to the failure of the rest.
From there, Imad Wasim and Naseem Shah’s 16-ball 30-run partnership led Islamabad to victory. After that, the tension of the last over was overshadowed by the last laugh of Shadab’s team. Imad left the field as the winner with 19 runs off 17 balls.
Earlier, after winning the toss, Usman Khan’s fifty and Iftikhar Ahmed’s great fight at the end, Multan Sultans made a capital of 159 runs for 9 wickets.
Multan lost 9 wickets for 127 runs despite Mohammad Rizwan’s 26 off 26 balls and Usman Khan’s 40 balls of 57 runs. From there, Iftikhar brought fighting capital to the team.
Iftikhar added 32 runs off 19 balls with Mohammad Ali on the last wicket. In this, Ali played 3 balls and did not get any runs, Iftikhar scored all the runs of the pair. This batsman remained unbeaten on 32 runs off 20 balls with 3 fours and sixes.
Multan’s foreign batsmen Johnson Charles (4 off 6), Chris Jordan (0 off 1) failed. David Willie (6 from 3 balls) could not benefit by dropping to number three.
Imad Wasim alone took 5 wickets with 23 runs. Another spinner Shadab Khan got 3 wickets at the cost of 32 runs.
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