Multan Sultans 145 for 5 (Hendricks 58, Rizwan 43, Naseem 2-27) beat Islamabad United 144 (Salman 52, Cox 41, Ali 3-19, Afridi 3-33) by five wickets
Multan Sultans limited the batting power of Islamabad United through pace and notched their second straight win in the Pakistan Super League on Tuesday.
Islamabad lost the wickets of Alex Hales and Colin Munro cheaply inside the batting powerplay after Rizwan won the toss and elected to field.
Ali shattered the stumps of Munro with a sharp delivery that darted into the lefthander from around the wicket and Hales was caught at deep square leg while attempting a big shot against David Willey.
Afridi varied his pace intelligently and had Shadab clean bowled off a length ball and then Khushdil made amends of his two early fielding lapses by having Salman caught in the deep off Afridi’s leg-cutter.
Ali wrapped up the tail by grabbing two wickets in the last over before running out Naseem off the last ball.