Tag: T20 Record

  • Multan Sultans first team of PSL to win nine matches in group stages

    Multan Sultans first team of PSL to win nine matches in group stages

    Pakistan Super League’s (PSL) franchise Multan Sultans has made a record of PSL history after becoming the first team to win nine out of 10 matches in the group stage of the league.

    Read More – Sultans’ skipper Mohammad Rizwan adds another record to his name

    After defeating Islamabad United on Sunday by six wickets, defending champions Multan Sultans produced another stellar all-round performance to finish the double-league round-robin stage of the PSL 7.

    United set an easy 106-run chase, Sultans had crashed to 43 for four in 7.2 overs as Dawson followed-up on his 22-run batting contribution with three wickets in his opening spell with the new ball.

    Skipper Mohammad Rizwan came to his side’s rescue with an unbeaten inning of 51 off 42 balls.

    Rizwan added 68 runs in the unbroken fifth-wicket stand with David Willey who made 28 off 32. Rizwan finished the match with a majestic six over the extra cover boundary that took him past his 50.

    Sultans finished their chase with 16 balls to spare.

    Meanwhile, Rizwan is at number two in the PSL 7 batting charts with 479 runs behind Qalandars’ Fakhar Zaman, who has scored 521 runs.

    Multan will be playing the Qualifier match on Wednesday with Qalandars or Zalmi, whoever ends on the second spot of the table.

    United will be playing Eliminator 1 against Qalandars or Zalmi on Thursday.

  • Aakash Chopra schools Indian netizen who called Rizwan ‘loser’

    Aakash Chopra schools Indian netizen who called Rizwan ‘loser’

    Former Indian cricketer and commentator Aakash Chopra schooled a netizen after the latter called Pakistan wicket keeper-batter Mohammad Rizwan a ‘loser’.

    Read More – ‘Sirf Allah se hota hai’: Mohammad Rizwan after scoring 2,000 record T20 runs in a year

    Chopra had recently published a video, praising Rizwan’s performance in the T20 format. However, a netizen posted a screenshot of that video and claimed that India’s star batter Virat Kohli had already achieved the feats before Rizwan, which was factually incorrect.

    https://twitter.com/ItzAbhizz/status/1472818226123849728?s=20

    Responding to the Twitter user, Aakash shared the stats for the most T20 runs scored in a calender year, which clearly showed that Rizwan was ahead of Kohli.

    He further wrote: “People see what they want to see. It wasn’t a comparison with anyone. It’s a fact. Number of innings/matches irrelevant. It’s incredible that we can’t even appreciate an effort without caveats.”

    It must be noted that the prolific batter also has the most runs — 1326 — in T20I cricket, this year, at a stunning average of 73.66 and strike-rate of 134.89. His runs tally includes 12 fifties, most by any player this year, and a hundred. He also stands at the top of the table in terms of sixes hit this year, with 42 against his name.

    Read More – ‘Was breathless’: Mohammad Rizwan talks about health, pillow he carries

    Rizwan’s 158-run opening stand for the first wicket with Babar Azam, in the third T20I against West Indies recently, also helped the duo break the record for most hundred partnerships as a pair, six, in T20I cricket. The record was previously held by India’s Rohit Sharma and KL Rahul, with five century partnerships.