2021 Multan Sultans season

Multan Sultans

2021 season
Coach	Andy Flower
Captain	Mohammad Rizwan
PSL 2021	Champions
Most runs	Mohammad Rizwan (500)
Most wickets	Shahnawaz Dahani (20)
← 2020 2022 →

The Multan Sultans is a franchise cricket team that represents Multan in the Pakistan Super League. The team made its PSL debut in 2018 season. ^{[1] [2]} Multan Sultans beat Peshawar Zalmi in the final by 47 runs to win their first PSL title. ^[3]

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. ^[4] 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. ^[5] 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. ^[6] 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. ^[7] Tareen's bid was for $6.35 million per year, making this the most expensive franchise. ^[8]

Kit manufacturers and sponsors

Shirt sponsor (chest) Shirt sponsor (back) Chest branding Sleeve branding Pepsi Fatima Group G.F.C Fans Snack Video, Asia Ghee

Playing kit

Points table

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	NR	Pts	NRR
1	Islamabad United (3rd)	10	8	2	0	16	0.859
2	Multan Sultans (C)	10	5	5	0	10	1.050
3	Peshawar Zalmi (R)	10	5	5	0	10	0.586
4	Karachi Kings (4th)	10	5	5	0	10	−0.115
5	Lahore Qalandars	10	5	5	0	10	−0.589
6	Quetta Gladiators	10	2	8	0	4	−1.786

Source: ESPNcricinfo

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

Statistics

Most runs

Rank	Name	Innings	Runs	High score
1	Mohammad Rizwan	12	500	82 not out
2	Sohaib Maqsood	12	428	65 not out
3	Shan Masood	7	209	73
4	Rilee Rossouw	12	177	50
5	James Vince	5	174	84

• Source: ESPNcricinfo ^[9]

Most wickets

Rank	Name	Matches	Wickets	Best bowling
1	Shahnawaz Dahani	11	20	4/5
2	Imran Tahir	7	13	3/7
3	Imran khan	7	12	3/24
4	Blessing Muzarabani	6	10	3/31
5	Sohail Tanvir	8	5	3/17

• Source: ESPNcricinfo ^[10]

See also

• 2021 Pakistan Super League squads

References

1. Ali Ahmed (1 August 2017). "Wasim Akram joins PSL's newest baby". Business Recorder . Retrieved 3 August 2017.
2. Umar Farooq (2 August 2017). "Multan Sultans reunite Wasim, Waqar for PSL". ESPNcricinfo . Retrieved 6 August 2017.
3. "Multan Sultans complete turnaround title win on back of Sohaib Maqsood, Rilee Rossouw fifties". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 26 January 2022.
4. Faizan Lakhani (22 September 2017). "Tom Moody appointed head coach of Multan Sultans". Geo News . Retrieved 22 September 2017.
5. "PCB terminates franchise agreement with Schon Group for Multan Sultans". Dawn. 11 November 2018.
6. "PCB invites interested bidders for sale of sixth PSL team". Dawn. 1 December 2018.
7. "Ali Tareen-led Multan consortium wins franchise rights for sixth PSL team". Dawn. 20 December 2018.
8. Farooq, Umar (20 December 2018). "PSL sixth team ownership rights won by Ali Tareen consortium". ESPN. Retrieved 28 December 2018.
9. "Multan Sultans most runs in 2021". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 24 June 2021.
10. "Multan Sultans most wickets in 2021". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 24 June 2021.