Quetta Gladiators earn first PSL win by beating Multan Sultans by 22 runs

Quetta Gladiators finally notched their first win in the Pakistan Super League by beating Multan Sultans by 22 runs on Wednesday.

The Gladiators' victory came after four straight losses and ended a 13-match streak of teams successfully chasing down the targets since the tournament began on February 20th.

Quetta lost the toss for the fifth time in a row and posted 176-7 on the back of rookie opening batsman Usman Khan’s 81 off 50 balls.

Multan lost their last six wickets off 20 deliveries before eventually getting bowled out for 154 in 19.3 overs.

Zahid Mahmood was denied a hat trick when Ben Cutting dropped a sitter of Imran Tahir at long off after the legspinner had captain Mohammad Rizwan (66) and Sohail Khan (8) caught in the deep off successive deliveries in the 18th over.

Afghanistan legspinner Qais Ahmed (3-21) had earlier claimed wickets in his first three overs which pegged back Multan’s run-chase.

Multan and Quetta both are languishing at the bottom of the six-team event with two points each after playing half of their league games.