KARACHI: On a new, cool night here at the Public Bank Field on Sunday, the gatherings had come in great numbers and the enthusiastic, week's end personality was perceptible with their relentless presenting.
In any case, it was everything except a player from have bunch Karachi Rulers who showed the fireworks. It was Multan Rulers hitter Usman Khan.
Dispirited by the circumstance in Pakistan, Usman had moved to the Bound together Center Easterner Emirates two or three years earlier, and actually became able to play for the emirate's public side. Pummeling the Karachi bowlers for his second HBL Pakistan Super Affiliation century, Usman reminded what Pakistan missed as he took the Rulers to a 20-run win and into the finish of the time games.
Usman's assault left Karachi's fate hanging as the gathering stuck past the play-off places in the foundation affiliation's standings. Multan, meanwhile, consolidated their circumstance at the most noteworthy place of the table.
After Multan had decided for bat first, everything rotated around Usman's dynamism with the bat. Coming in at first drop, Usman squashed an unbeaten 106 off 59 — a bang featuring 10 fours and five sixes — basically with practically no assistance supporting Multan to 189-3.
The right-hander arrived at the kink after Multan had lost opener Reeza Hendricks early and took the attack on the Karachi bowlers while his captain Rizwan related the strike on the furthest edge.
After Hendricks' upper cut off Gift Muzarabani had ended up heavily influenced by Mir Hamza at significant third man in the second more than, a cut-shot masterclass by Usman took Multan past 50 on the last heap of the powerplay.
The right-hander cut Hasan Ali and Muzarabani's speed through the square region again and again and was comparably perfect against Mohammad Nawaz's bend.
Usman held nothing back unprecedented for his bang when he dropped down the ground to lift Nawaz over extra-cover for an appealing six going before Rizwan played a back to front drive to add four more as Multan showed up at 87-1 at halfway stage.
Usman brought his 50 years up in 32 balls directly following cutting Hasan for another cutoff in the twelfth over.
He rebuked a half-tracker by Shoaib Malik in the accompanying over for a monster six over significant midwicket before Rizwan lifted Muzarabani over mid-on for four more to raise the 100-run association between the pair.
Usman hit spinner Zahid Mahmood high and long in the stands and added a four to his bang in the fifteenth over.
Rizwan (58 off 44) crossed the 50-run mark on 40 balls right after hitting Hasan for two fours in the accompanying over before giving his wicket to Muzarabani.
Iftikhar Ahmed got a mixing welcoming as Chacha, Chacha resonated from the stands. Nevertheless, to the spectators' disappointment, he holed Hasan out to Shan at significant midwicket.
Usman raised his 100 with a draw for six against Hamza in the last completed the process of, bouncing in the air to celebrate as the gathering roared for him.
Karachi lost opener Tim Seifert from the start with the New Zealander run out in the second gotten done and they found themselves more significant in a predicament when Chris Jordan — playing his most paramount match this season — found a genuine scratch off James Vince's bat.
Anyway, the coming Malik and Rulers' chief Shan Masood — who had hit five fours by then, — took the gathering to 53-2 close to the completion of the powerplay.
Usama Mir missed the opportunity to run Shan out following a disorder among him and Malik in the seventh over.
The leg-spinner, regardless, returned by cleaning up Shan in the tenth over as the left-hander tried a significant walk clear before Karachi posted 79-3 at halfway stage.
Malik became Khushdil Shah's loss as the veteran holed the spinner out to Jordan at long-on.
Usama wrapped up his four overs with Leus du Plooy's wicket in the thirteenth over as the left-hander found Rizwan at cover before Karachi raised their 100.
Irfan Khan Niazi squashed chinaman bowler Faisal Akram through the off-side for two limits preceding beating the left-armer for a level six over midwicket in the fourteenth over.
Pacer David Willey offered only three runs in the accompanying over with Karachi requiring 71 off 30 and their essential players back in the bungalow.
Moreover, when Willey continued to pardon Irfan in the seventeenth over, it was truly completed for Karachi. There were two or three powerful inelegantly misses Mohammad Nawaz and Hasan Ali after Irfan's flight, but the pair's undertakings were for minimal more than hurt control.
SCOREBOARD
MULTAN Rulers:
Hitters and techniques for dismissals R B 4s 6s SR
Mohammad Rizwan c Shan b Muzarabani 58 44 5 0 131.81
Reeza Hendricks c Hamza b Muzarabani 13 8 3 0 162.50
Usman Khan not out 106 59 10 5 179.66
Iftikhar Ahmed c Irfan b Hasan 4 4 0 0 100.00
Khushdil Shah not out 6 5 0 0 120.00
Extra things (LB-1, W-1) 2
Complete (for three wickets, 20 overs) 189
Didn't BAT: Tayyab Tahir, Chris Jordan, David Willey, Usama Mir, Mohammad Ali, Faisal Akram
FALL OF WICKETS: 1-16 (Hendricks), 2-164 (Rizwan), 3-171 (Iftikhar)
BOWLING: Hamza 4-0-43-0, Muzarabani 4-0-32-2, Nawaz 3-0-37-0 (1w), Hasan 4-0-34-1, Zahid 4-0-34-0, Malik 1-0-8-0
KARACHI Rulers:
Players and techniques for dismissals R B 4s 6s SR
Shan Masood b Usama 36 29 5 0 124.13
Tim Seifert run out (Willey) 1 4 0 0 25.00
James Vince c Usman b Jordan 7 4 1 0 175.00
Shoaib Malik c Jordan b Khushdil 38 28 5 0 135.71
Leus du Plooy c Rizwan b Usama 12 11 0 0 109.09
Irfan Khan c Usman b Willey 23 19 2 1 121.05
Mohammad Nawaz not out 27 17 3 1 158.82
Hasan Ali c Tayyab b Ali 17 8 1 1 212.50
Mir Hamza not out 4 1 1 0 400.00 Extra things (LB-2, NB-1, W-1) 4
Outright (for seven wickets, 20 overs) 169
Didn't BAT: Zahid Mahmood, Gift Muzarabani
FALL OF WICKETS: 1-6 (Seifert), 2-28 (Vince), 3-75 (Shan), 4-89 (Malik), 5-99 (du Plooy), 6-124 (Irfan), 7-165 (Hasan)
BOWLING: Willey 4-0-32-1, Ali 4-0-40-1 (1nb), Jordan 4-0-34-1 (1w), Usama 4-0-29-2, Khushdil 3-0-16-1, Faisal 1-0-16-0
RESULT: Multan Rulers won by 20 runs.
PLAYER-OF-THE-MATCH: Usman Khan
Circulated in Dawn, Walk fourth, 2024
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