2019 Multan Sultans season

Multan Sultans

2019 season
Coach	Johan Botha [1]
Captain	Shoaib Malik
PSL 2019	5th (eliminated)
Most runs	Shoaib Malik (266) [2]
Most wickets	Shahid Afridi (10) [3]
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The Multan Sultans is a franchise cricket team that represents Multan in the Pakistan Super League. The team made its PSL debut in the 2018 season. ^{[4] [5]} The team finished 5th after group stage matches, winning only three out of their ten matches and failing to reach the play-offs for the second consecutive year. ^[6]

Background

Multan Sultans 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. ^[7] Prior to the start of the fourth season, Schon Properties failed to pay the $5.2 million annual fee, and Pakistan Cricket Board had cancelled their franchise.. ^[8] After the cancellation, the PCB took responsibility of all player and coach contracts while the public tender process took place to grant the repackaged rights of the team. The PCB asked interested bidders to collect the bidding documents from its offices by 14 December 2018. The financial proposal of the technically qualified bidders is due to be opened on 18 December 2018. ^[9] On 20 December 2018, PSL announced that Ali Tareen-led Multan consortium had won the franchise rights for the sixth team for a seven-year period, by exceeding the PCB's reserve price set at $5.21 million per year. ^[10] Tareen's bid was for $6.35 million per year, making this the most expensive franchise. ^[11]

Squad

• Players with international caps are shown in bold
• Ages are given as of the first match of the season, 14 February 2019

No.	Name	Nationality	Birth date	Batting style	Bowling style	Year signed	Notes
Batsmen
14	James Vince	England	(1991-03-14)14 March 1991 (aged 27)	Right-handed	Right-arm medium	2019	Overseas
30	Shan Masood	Pakistan	(1989-10-14)14 October 1989 (aged 29)	Left-handed	Right-arm medium-fast	2018
1	Umar Siddiq	Pakistan	(1992-12-30)30 December 1992 (aged 26)	Left-handed	Right-arm off break	2018
32	Laurie Evans	England	(1987-10-12)12 October 1987 (aged 31)	Right-handed	Right-arm medium-fast	2019	Overseas
49	Steve Smith	Australia	(1989-06-02)2 June 1989 (aged 29)	Right-handed	Right-arm leg spin	2019	Overseas
24	Joe Denly	England	(1986-03-16)16 March 1986 (aged 32)	Right-handed	Right-arm leg spin	2019	Overseas
All-rounders
7	Nauman Ali	Pakistan	(1986-10-07)7 October 1986 (aged 32)	Right-handed	Slow left-arm orthodox	2019
10	Shahid Afridi	Pakistan	(1980-03-01)1 March 1980 (aged 38)	Right-handed	Right-arm leg spin	2019
12	Andre Russell	West Indies	(1988-04-29)29 April 1988 (aged 30)	Right-handed	Right-arm fast	2019	Overseas
18	Shoaib Malik	Pakistan	(1982-02-01)1 February 1982 (aged 37)	Right-handed	Right-arm off break	2018	Captain
73	Hammad Azam	Pakistan	(1991-03-16)16 March 1991 (aged 27)	Right-handed	Right-arm medium	2019
54	Dan Christian	Australia	(1983-05-04)4 May 1983 (aged 35)	Right-handed	Right-arm medium-fast	2019	Overseas
Wicket-keepers
29	Nicholas Pooran	West Indies	(1995-10-02)2 October 1995 (aged 23)	Left-handed	—	2018	Overseas
78	Shakeel Ansar	Pakistan	(1978-11-11)11 November 1978 (aged 40)	Right-handed	—	2019
23	Tom Moores	England	(1996-09-04)4 September 1996 (aged 22)	Left-handed	—	2019	Overseas
25	Johnson Charles	West Indies	(1989-01-14)14 January 1989 (aged 30)	Right-handed	Slow left-arm orthodox	2019	Overseas
Bowlers
33	Ali Shafiq	Pakistan	(1996-11-16)16 November 1996 (aged 22)	Right-handed	Right-arm medium-fast	2019
83	Junaid Khan	Pakistan	(1989-12-24)24 December 1989 (aged 29)	Right-handed	Left-arm fast	2018
17	Irfan Khan	Pakistan	(1989-08-01)1 August 1989 (aged 29)	Right-handed	Right-arm leg break	2018
26	Mohammad Abbas	Pakistan	(1990-03-10)10 March 1990 (aged 28)	Right-handed	Right-arm fast-medium	2018
27	Mohammad Irfan	Pakistan	(1982-06-06)6 June 1982 (aged 36)	Right-handed	Left-arm fast	2019
27	Mohammad Ilyas	Pakistan	(1999-03-21)21 March 1999 (aged 19)	Right-handed	Right-arm medium-fast	2019
93	Chris Green	Australia	(1993-10-01)1 October 1993 (aged 25)	Right-handed	Right-arm off break	2019	Overseas
	Mohammad Junaid	Pakistan	(2002-03-21)21 March 2002 (aged 16)	Left-handed	Slow left-arm orthodox	2019
32	Qais Ahmed	Afghanistan	(2000-08-15)15 August 2000 (aged 18)	Right-handed	Right-arm leg break	2019	Overseas

Kit manufacturers and sponsors

Shirt sponsor (chest) Shirt sponsor (back) Chest branding Sleeve branding Pepsi Afsaneh Lay's OLX, Asia Ghee Mill F.C.

Playing kit

Points table

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	T	NR	Pts	NRR
1	Peshawar Zalmi (R)	10	7	3	0	0	14	0.828
2	Quetta Gladiators (C)	10	7	3	0	0	14	0.376
3	Islamabad United (3rd)	10	5	5	0	0	10	0.127
4	Karachi Kings (4th)	10	5	5	0	0	10	−0.673
5	Multan Sultans	10	3	7	0	0	6	0.173
6	Lahore Qalandars	10	3	7	0	0	6	−0.837

Source: ESPNcricinfo

• The top 4 teams qualified for the playoffs
•   Advanced to Qualifier
•   Advanced to Eliminator 1

Notes:

• C = Champions;
• R = Runner-up;
• (x) = Position at the end of the tournament;

Season summary

Multan Sultans started their season against Karachi Kings with a close defeat by just 7 runs. ^[12] In the next game against Islamabad United they registered their first win after restricting the opponents to only 125 runs and managing to chase the target pretty easily. ^[13] After their first five games, they lost 4 and won only once. They had their chance against Lahore Qalandars where they posted the highest total batting first of the tournament (200), but bad bowling in last few overs costed them the match, resulting in losing the match on the last ball. ^{[14] [15]} They won their second match of the season against Islamabad United by 6 wickets. ^{[16] [17]} Team's bad performance continued as they suffer three more loses, resulting in them being the first team to be eliminated from the season. ^{[18] [19]}

After playing ten matches, they managed to get over the line in three matches with the 3rd win coming against Lahore Qalandars in their final game of the season, played at National Stadium. ^[20] As a result, They finished 5th on the points table for the second consecutive year. ^[21]

Skipper Shoaib Malik was the team's leading runs-scorer with 266 runs, ^[2] while Shahid Afridi with 10 wickets in 8 matches was the team's leading wicket-taker for the season. ^[3]

References

1. "Johan Botha appointed as team's new Head Coach" . Retrieved 17 March 2019– via www.sacricketmag.com.
2. "Records / Multan Sultans / Most runs / 2019 seasons". ESPNCricinfo. Retrieved 11 March 2019.
3. "Records / Multan Sultans / Most wickets / 2019 seasons". ESPNCricinfo. Retrieved 11 March 2019.
4. Ali Ahmed (1 August 2017). "Wasim Akram joins PSL's newest baby". Business Recorder . Retrieved 3 August 2017.
5. Umar Farooq (2 August 2017). "Multan Sultans reunite Wasim, Waqar for PSL". ESPNcricinfo . Retrieved 6 August 2017.
6. "Points Table –Pakistan Super League 2019" . Retrieved 17 March 2019– via ESPNCricinfo.
7. Faizan Lakhani (22 September 2017). "Tom Moody appointed head coach of Multan Sultans". Geo News . Retrieved 22 September 2017.
8. "PCB terminates franchise agreement with Schon Group for Multan Sultans". Dawn. 11 November 2018.
9. "PCB invites interested bidders for sale of sixth PSL team". Dawn. 1 December 2018.
10. "Ali Tareen-led Multan consortium wins franchise rights for sixth PSL team". Dawn. 20 December 2018.
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14. "PSL-highlights 2019 – Match 10 – Lahore Qalandars' de Villiers and Wiese rout Multan Sultans by 6 Wickets". The News. Retrieved 25 February 2019.
15. "PSL-highlights 2019 – Match 14 – Peshawar Zalmi vs Multan Sultans, Zalmi recover to beat Sultans in psl". The News. Retrieved 25 February 2019.
16. "PSL 2019 Match 16: Multan Sultans thrash Islamabad United by six wickets". The News. Retrieved 27 February 2019.
17. "Multan Sultans beat Islamabad United by 6 wickets". AAJ News. Retrieved 27 February 2019.
18. "Pollard, Amin smash Peshawar Zalmi to victory". ESPNCricinfo. Retrieved 28 February 2019.
19. "Karachi Kings knock Multan Sultans out of psl 4". Dunya News. Retrieved 4 March 2019.
20. "Lahore Qalandars finished last again after walloping from Multan Sultans". ESPNCricinfo. Retrieved 11 March 2019.
21. "PSL 2019 – Points table, Multan finished 5th for the second straight year". ESPNCricinfo. Retrieved 11 March 2019.