In the 21st match of Pakistan Super League 9, Peshawar Zalmi defeats Multan Sultans by four runs after a thriller match in Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium.

Peshawar Zalmi captain Babar Azam won the toss and elected to bat first against Multan Sultans.

Peshawar Zalmi inning

Peshawar Zalmi scored 204 runs for the loss of 5 wickets in the allotted 20 overs, captain Babar Azam scored 64 runs. Apart from this, Saim Ayub scored 46 runs, Haseebullah scored 31 runs and Asif Ali scored 11 runs. Rovman Powell scored 23 runs and Aamir Jamal scored 12 runs.

Usama Mir took 3 wickets and Chris Jordan took 2 wickets for Multan Sultans.

Multan Sultan inning

Chasing the target of 205 runs, Multan Sultan took aggressive start by hitting 14 runs in first over. Multans captian Muhammad Rizwan scored 32 runs, Chris Jordan 30 while Iftikhar Ahmed scored 60 runs of just 21 balls but could not chase down the total.

Multan scored 200 runs for the loss of five wickets in alloted 20 overs.

From Peshawar’s side Aamir Jamal took two while Mehran Mumtaz and Naveen ul Haq took one wicket each.