Table-topper Multan routs Quetta for 106 in the last league game of PSL
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KARACHI, Pakistan, March 13, (AP): Leg-spinner Usama Mir and David Willey shared six wickets and routed Quetta Gladiators for 106 as table-topper Multan Sultans completed its regular season with a 79-run win in the Pakistan Super League.
Multan led the points table with seven wins and will take on No. 2 Peshawar Zalmi (12 points) in the qualifier on Thursday with the winner advancing to the final.
It was a wake-up call for revamped Quetta, which will be playing its first PSL playoffs after four years. It will meet Islamabad United in the eliminator on Thursday.
Half-centuries by captain Mohammad Rizwan (69) and Johnson Charles (53) of the West Indies propelled Multan to 185-4 after Quetta won the toss and elected to field.
Quetta’s chase got derailed in the third over when Jason Roy’s run of poor form continued as Willey (3-22) had him trapped leg before wicket and Saud Shakeel (14) got run out.
Willey then knocked back captain Rilee Rossouw’s leg stump with an impeccable yorker inside the power play and Laurie Evans spooned a dolly catch to mid-wicket.
Mir (3-22), the leading wicket-taker of the tournament, then removed Quetta’s top-scorer Omair Yousuf (37) before he quickly ran through the tailenders to give Multan an emphatic victory with more than four overs to spare.
Earlier, Rizwan smashed his fourth half-century and second against Quetta this season and Charles upped the ante in the death overs with his 29-ball knock before Iftikhar Ahmed provided an ideal finish with a quickfire 20 off eight balls.
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