-Vinay Kumar
In the title match of Season-7 of Pakistan Super League (PSL 2022), the team of captain Shaheen Shah Afridi and Company won the trophy by defeating Lahore Qalanders Multans Sultans. In the final match of the PSL 2022, Lahore Qalandars defeated Multan Sultans at the top of the points table by 42 runs. At the same time, the second-ranked team Lahore Qalandars won and became the fourth team in the history to become the champion by staying at number two in the points table.
Prior to Lahore Qalanders, Quetta Gladiators (in 2019), Karachi Kings (in 2020) and Multan Sultans (in 2021) became champions despite finishing second. In the final match of this fresh season, the hero of Lahore Qalandars’ victory was Mohammad Hafeez, who first scored 69 runs in 46 balls while batting first and then 2 for 23 in 4 overs. Drop it
In this match, this final match for Multan Sultans, captain Mohammad Rizwan’s team, was completely bad luck and missed out on winning their second consecutive title. In the PSL 2022, Multans Sultans had to face only one defeat in the league stage in total played 11 matches. This team was on top of the points table from start to finish. But, the second-ranked Lahore Qalanders won their first PSL TROPHY, breaking the dream of Multan Sultans.
Talking about this match, batting first, Lahore Qalandars scored 180 runs for the loss of 5 wickets in 20 overs and gave Multans Sultans a target of 181 runs to win. Lahore Qalandars had a shaky start after losing 3 wickets for 25 runs. After this, Mohammad Hafeez, along with Kamran Ghulam (15) to some extent, took the innings and added 54 runs. Harry Brooke supported Hafeez after Kamran’s dismissal.
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In the last, David Wiese scored 28 runs in 8 balls with the help of 1 brilliant four and 3 sixes to take Lahore Qalandars’s score to 180. Brooke also played a fine innings of 41 runs off 22 balls which included 2 fours and 3 sixes. Mohammad Hafeez hit 9 fours and 1 six in his powerful innings of 69 runs.
After this, Multan Sultans, who came into the field to chase down the target of 181 runs for victory, started well, but after the dismissal of the team’s strong captain Mohammad Rizwan on the score of 36, wickets fell. It rained. On seeing the score of 63 runs, half the team was made to run. After this Tim David (27 runs) and Khushdil Shah (32 runs) tried to handle the innings to some extent, but they also could not stay long at the crease.
Multan Sultans’ entire team was bundled out for 138 runs in 19.3 overs with 3 balls to spare and Lahore Qalanders won the PSL 2022 title match by 42 runs. Team’s Gabru captain Shaheen Shah Afridi took 3 wickets for 30 runs in 4 overs, presenting the look of excellent bowling. Apart from them, Mohammad Hafeez and Zaman Khan took 2-2, Haris Rauf and David Weiss took 1-1 wickets.