Multan Sultan’s Mohammad Rizwan adds another record to his name

LAHORE: In their match against Quetta Gladiators, Multan Sultans broke their old record of achieving the highest-ever margin of victory in the Pakistan Super League’s (PSL) history.

In match 25 of the ongoing PSL season, the Sultans handed a whopping 117-run defeat to the Sarfaraz Ahmed-led Gladiators.

Before this, the Sultans had made the same record against the same opposition in Abu Dhabi in 2021, when they defeated Gladiators by 110 runs.

Sultans had also managed to score the second-highest total of PSL — 245 for the loss of three wickets.

Moreover, Sultans wicket-keeper batter and skipper Mohammad Rizwan added another feather in his cap when he became the first-ever Pakistani  to complete two-century partnerships in single T20 innings.

Meanwhile, Multan Sultans skipper Mohammad Rizwan added another feather in his cap on Friday when he became the first Pakistani to complete two century partnerships in a T20 innings.

Rizwan, who opens for Multan Sultans, first added 119 off 72 with Shan Masood and then 103 off just 39 deliveries with Rilee Rossouw for the second wicket.

This was the first time that two 100-run partnerships were completed by a batsman in a PSL innings, while overall it was the 12th such instance in a T20 game.

Only eight batters, worldwide, had achieved the milestone of featuring in two century partnerships in a single inning of a T20 match. Agencies