Sultans vs Gladiators, 28th Match at Rawalpindi, PSL 2023, Mar 11 2023 - Ball by Ball Commentary

Qais Ahmed flays Anwar Ali for a six over square leg's left and brings the defeat margin to 9 runs. Another run-fest and once again Rawalpindi proved to be a delight for the batters but it is Multan Sultans who prevailed over Quetta Gladiators. Phenomenal performance from both these teams! 515 runs scored tonight which is the highest match aggregate in T20 history

Steers it away to point who can't pick it up cleanly and they wind up getting a run

Rossouw plops it at cover, pitched up on off, he got himself in an awkward position, throwing his hands at it and playing away from his body, swinging Anwar high into the Rawalpindi sky, fielder got underneath but it just burst out of his hands

Gets down low to it in a bid to scoop it past fine leg, lost the sight of the ball in the air and hence there is no solid connection, fine leg cuts it off , three sixes required

Almost a carbon copy of the previous delivery, lands it on seventh stump line, he gets a thick inside edge and it races away to fine leg boundary, record number runs have been scored in this T20

Fires in a wide yorker, he gets down to low it and lifts it aerially but cannot generate power inot the shot and it just lands short of the fielder at extra cover, Anwar is sticking to his plan and is looking to bowl wide yorkers, keeping it away from his swinging arc

Round the wicket, aiming for a yorker but he read his mind early, drills it down the ground with disdain and away it trickles to the boundary between long on and long off, Anwar was too far away that tramline and it's a no ball, 24 off 6 required

A yorker right into the blockhole on sixth stump, he digs it out to deep cover-point and another fine spell from Abbas Afridi, Umar Gul's nephew, comes to an end.

Tries to play a cheeky shot past fine leg, can't get a solid connection as the ball caroms to fine leg

Springs down the track and smites him through extra cover for another elegant boundary

Goes for the yorker, shoveled away to midwicket, they run hard and get the second run

Overpitched and room on offer, he holds his stance and smokes it over extra cover and it skittles away to the rope

Slow ball on a fuller length, lands it outside leg stump, wide called

Afridi on a hattrick and he gets it! That's the first PSL 8 hattrick and the young tearaway quick richly deserved it, spears in a supernova on a hard length and induces a false shot, it's a massive wicket, Akmal was looking threatening. Tim David takes a sprawling catch at long-off

Misses the yorker by a mere inches and gets drilled down the ground for a blistering boundary, bisects long-on and long-off with surgical precision. 42 off two overs needed

Flail and a miss! A hooping delivery on an unimpeachable line, he gives his all and puts a lot of effort behind the delivery, he goes for the pull but can't connect

Goes deep in his crease and powerfully knocks it down the ground into the acreage at midwicket for a run

A tocuh shorter and angled in from outside off, pace off the ball and he goes for the pull again, not timed well on this occasion and will have to settle for a single

Akmal continues to use his bat like a swinging door! Thrases it meriily through the line and it skittles away to midwicket boundary. Such a joy to watch when he is in full flow

Short of a length, kicking and screaming off the deck outside off, Akmal goes for the full-blooded pull, gets a top edge and it just goes beyond Rizwan's glove