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WATCH: Haris Rauf’s deadliest yorker cleans up David Miller in Pakistan Super League
The opener of the Pakistan Super League was played between Lahore Qalandars and Multan Sultan at the Multan Cricket Stadium. The Lahore franchise defeated Multan’s side to take away 2 points from their first encounter of the league.
Pakistan star wicketkeeper batter, Mohammad Rizwan won the toss and elected to bowl first. Qalandars got off to a great start as opener Fakhar Zaman scored 66 runs from 42 balls and Mirza Baig scored 32 runs of 26 balls.
In the second innings, right-arm seamer Haris Rauf bowled a yorker at 144.3 kph, and South Africa’s middle order batter David Miller was left stunned with the accuracy and pace. He missed the line completely and the ball went on to hit the bottom of the leg stump.
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Qalanders defeat Sultan by 1 run
For the Multan franchise, Ihsanullah and Usama Mir took two wickets each while giving away 37 runs and 25 runs respectively in their spell of four overs. But still Qalandars managed to score a total of 176 runs with the loss of 6 wickets after the completion of the first innings.
While chasing the target, Shan Masood scored 35 off 31 balls, while Rizwan starred with the bat, amassing 75 runs of 50 balls which kept their innings under control. After 18 overs, the Sultans were at 147 for 2. The Sultans needed 29 runs from 12 balls with 8 wickets still in the bank. Miller and former West Indies skipper Kieran Pollard were batting, at that stage.
The Qalandars skipper Shahen Shah Afridi bowled brilliantly in his spell of four overs as he conceded just 27 runs and took one wicket. Rauf bowled brilliantly as well as he gave just 23 runs in his 3 overs, however, he was not able to grab a wicket.
Pollard slammed 6 and 4 in the 19th over which left Sultan to chase a total of 15 runs off the last over. In the last over, 3 wickets fell on the first four deliveries bowled by Zaman Khan. 10 runs were needed off the last two deliveries on which the left-hand batter Khushdil Shah smashed two fours.