2018 season | |||
Coach | Tom Moody | ||
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Captain | Shoaib Malik | ||
PSL 2018 | 5th | ||
Most runs | Kumar Sangakkara (269) | ||
Most wickets | Imran Tahir (13) | ||
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The Multan Sultans is a franchise cricket team that will represent Multan in the Pakistan Super League. [1] [2] They are the sixth team to join the league. 2018 was their inaugural season. After the league was started in 2016, this was the first expansion of the league. Tom Moody serves as their coach. [3] They finished as the fifth placed team after the league stage ended and failed to qualify for the playoffs.
No. | Name | Nationality | Birth date | Batting style | Bowling style | Year signed | Notes | |
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Batsmen | ||||||||
6 | Saif Badar | Pakistan | 3 July 1998 (aged 19) | Right-handed | Right-arm leg break, googly | 2018 | ||
19 | Ahmed Shehzad | Pakistan | 23 November 1991 (aged 26) | Right-handed | Right-arm leg break | 2018 | ||
30 | Shan Masood | Pakistan | 14 October 1989 (aged 28) | Left-handed | Right-arm medium-fast | 2018 | ||
46 | Darren Bravo | West Indies | 6 February 1989 (aged 29) | Left-handed | Right-arm medium | 2018 | Overseas | |
92 | Sohaib Maqsood | Pakistan | 15 April 1987 (aged 30) | Right-handed | Right-arm off break | 2018 | ||
93 | Abdullah Shafique | Pakistan | 20 November 1999 (aged 18) | Right-handed | Right-arm off break | 2018 | ||
94 | Umar Siddiq | Pakistan | 30 December 1992 (aged 25) | Left-handed | Right-arm off break | 2018 | ||
All-rounders | ||||||||
55 | Kieron Pollard | West Indies | 12 May 1987 (aged 30) | Right-handed | Right-arm medium-fast | 2018 | Overseas | |
18 | Shoaib Malik | Pakistan | 1 February 1982 (aged 36) | Right-handed | Right-arm off break | 2018 | Captain | |
33 | Sohail Tanvir | Pakistan | 12 December 1984 (aged 33) | Left-handed | Left-arm medium-fast | 2018 | ||
44 | Ross Whiteley | England | 13 September 1988 (aged 29) | Left-handed | Left-arm medium | 2018 | Overseas | |
45 | Kashif Bhatti | Pakistan | 25 July 1986 (aged 31) | Left-handed | slow L orthodox | 2018 | ||
Wicket-keepers | ||||||||
11 | Kumar Sangakkara | Sri Lanka | 27 October 1977 (aged 40) | Left-handed | — | 2018 | Overseas | |
29 | Nicholas Pooran | West Indies | 2 October 1995 (aged 22) | Left-handed | — | 2018 | Overseas | |
Bowlers | ||||||||
7 | Hardus Viljoen | South Africa | 6 March 1989 (aged 28) | Right-handed | Right-arm fast | 2018 | Overseas | |
12 | Junaid Khan | Pakistan | 24 December 1989 (aged 28) | Right-handed | Left-arm fast | 2018 | ||
26 | Mohammad Abbas | Pakistan | 10 March 1990 (aged 27) | Right-handed | Right-arm fast-medium | 2018 | ||
27 | Mohammad Irfan | Pakistan | 6 June 1982 (aged 35) | Right-handed | Left-arm fast | 2018 | ||
55 | Umar Gul | Pakistan | 14 April 1984 (aged 33) | Right-handed | Right-arm fast-medium | 2018 | ||
99 | Imran Tahir | South Africa | 27 March 1979 (aged 38) | Right-handed | Right-arm leg break | 2018 | Overseas | |
Irfan Khan | Pakistan | 1 August 1989 (aged 28) | Right-handed | leg break | 2018 | |||
Zahir Khan | Afghanistan | 20 December 1998 (aged 19) | Left-handed | Slow left-arm wrist-spin | 2018 | Overseas |
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