After six games, Sultans have now won five of them, while Qalandars have lost all six of theirs.
Multan Sultans 214 for 4 (Usman 96, Shaheen 2-39) beat Lahore Qalandars 154 (Farhan 31, Usama 6-40) by 60 runs
As Multan Sultans defeated Lahore Qalandars by 60 runs on Tuesday, Usama Mir became the first spinner in PSL history to take six wickets. This was the two-time winners’ sixth consecutive loss. Legspinner Mir took six wickets for forty overs in 17 overs, bowling Lahore out for 154.
Table-toppers Multan rested overseas players Dawid Malan, Chris Jordan, and David Willey, however they still managed the season’s highest score of 214 for 4. With a brilliant knock of 96 off 55 balls, Usman Khan of the United Arab Emirates replaced Malan’s shoes, and Iftikhar Ahmed completed the picture with an undefeated 40 off 18 balls.
In the opening over, Shaheen Shah Afridi clean bowled Multan skipper Mohammad Rizwan, causing him to fall for the second time in the previous three games without scoring. The delivery was well curved into the batter.
However, Usman persisted in counterattacking, hitting 11 fours and two sixes to conclude his half-century partnerships with Tayyab Tahir (21) and Reeza Hendricks (40), scoring 60 runs off of just 28 balls with Ahmed in the last overs.
In the final over, Usman—whom Carlos Brathwaite had dropped on 89 at point—holed out to deep square leg, giving Shaheen (2-39) his second wicket.
After Rassie van der Dussen (30) was caught in the deep, Mir rapidly went through Lahore’s middle order, found the outside edge of George Linde’s bat, and bowled Jahandad Khan with a full-pitched delivery in an over. Multan went to the top of the league with five wins in six games when Mir got the final two wickets in his final.