Karachi Kings 167 for 3 (Tayyab 65, Wade 46, Ihsanullah 2-22) beat Multan Sultans 101 (Rizwan 29, Malik 3-16, Shamsi 3-18) by 66 runs
Karachi Kings' see-saw ride in this season's PSL continued, as the pattern of tight finishes and rather one-sided wins alternated for the fourth match in a row. The latest addition in the list was when they thumped Multan Sultans by 66 runs on Sunday, just days after falling short by three runs against the same team.
Put in to bat James Vince got off to a rapid start for Kings. First over onwards, he took on Akeal Hosein and Anwar Ali - both of whom had come into Sultans' XI - and had raced to 27 off 11 deliveries, before skying a catch to mid-on off Anwar in the fourth over.
Tayyab attacked the off side and leg side with equal ease, and hit eight fours as he brought up his half-century off 33 deliveries. With his fifty up in the 14th over, he hit Abbas Afridi for his only six in the next, but slowed down after that as Sultans bowled 31 deliveries without conceding a boundary.
And soon after in the 11th over, Tayyab's fantastic day continued when he took a superb diving catch at point off Rizwan's leading edge to give Malik his second wicket. Shamsi then struck in each of his next two overs, castling Khushdil Shah and getting Usama Mir to hole out at long-off to finish with figures of 3 for 18 that earned him the Player-of-the-Match award.
Sultans' innings seemed to head towards a hurried conclusion, as Imad then removed Carlos Brathwaite and Hosein in the 15th over, before Akif Raja also claimed his second wicket when Anwar Ali sliced a catch to deep point.