Islamabad united 209 for 8 (Ashraf 51*, Shadab 44, Munro 40, Anwar 3-33, Ihsanullah 2-35) Multan sultans 205 for 5 (Masood 75, David 60, Shadab 2-26) by two wickets
United does this a lot. They are pure T20, led by an all-rounder who loves his data and fueled by hitters who leave no room for second thought. They lost eight wickets in the course of this chase. They were 32 for 2, 99 for 4 and 159 for 7. But the longest they went without hitting a boundary after each of those dismissals was seven balls. And in penance they struck the eighth and ninth for four. United kept coming. They just kept coming and coming and coming.
Until those last few moments, it felt like a sultan’s game. Shan Masood topped the rankings with 75, only he didn’t hit a single six. David came in at number 4 and countered with a vengeance by clattering four of them off back-to-back balls in a 16th over by Rumman Raees that took 30 runs. But just as things started to look really bleak, United snuck in an eight-run 19th over from Fazalhaq Farooqi and a six-run 20th over from Wasim and that proved to be the difference.
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