Luke Ronchi’s rankling 74-run thump helped Islamabad United destroy Multan Sultans by eight wickets in their 2020 Pakistan Super League fixture at Lahore’s Gaddafi Stadium on Saturday.
United, who were pursuing an objective of 165 runs set for them by Sultans, arrived at their objective easily with 20 balls to ball.
Their two misfortunes were Colin Munro (50 off 32), who was bowled out by Shahid Afridi, and player of the match Ronchi, who lurched distinctly in the seventeenth over subsequent to agreeing with his position to simply flees from triumph with his splendid 45-ball 74.
Prior, subsequent to being sent in to bat, the Sultans completed with a score of 164-8 toward the end of their apportioned 20 overs.
The Shan Masood-drove group had begun its batting solid, storing up 31 runs toward the finish of five overs with no misfortunes. In the 6th over, be that as it may, captain Shan was gotten by Muhammad Musa off Faheem Ashraf.
The tenth over brought more difficulty for the Sultans, with Amad Butt expelling both Moeen Ali and Rilee Rossouw. Butt went on to likewise guarantee the wickets of JM Vince and Sohail Tanvir.
United won the toss and opted to bowl first in what was the fifth game of the fifth edition of PSL.
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