Multan Sultans, Quetta Gladiators report 515 runs in PSL recreation – highest ever in a T20 match

Multan Sultans and Quetta Gladiators recorded the very best match mixture ever in a T20 recreation of their Pakistan Super League (PSL) 2023 conflict in Rawalpindi on Saturday.

Multan and Quetta totalled 515 runs in a match the place the previous eked out a nine-run win regardless of posting 262 for 3 – the very best whole ever within the PSL.

The groups went previous the 501-run mark set by Titans and Knights in a CSA T20 Challenge match in South Africa in October 2022.

Multan’s mammoth whole, the primary 250-plus rating within the PSL, was arrange on the again of uncapped opener Usman Khan’s 43-ball 120 which included 12 fours and 9 sixes. Usman’s 36-ball century was the quickest within the league’s historical past.

The Gladiators’ chase was fuelled by half-centuries from Omair Yousuf (67 off 36) and Iftikhar Ahmed (53 off 31). However, Multan seamer Abbas Afridi recorded a hat-trick within the demise overs to depart the Gladiators in need of the end line.

The frenetic recreation additionally noticed Gladiators leg-spinner Qais Ahmed register figures of two/77 in 4 overs – the third-worst spell ever in a T20 recreation. Ahmed additionally conceded 9 sixes – essentially the most by a bowler in any T20 match.