Imad Wasim to Akeal Hosein, out Caught by Cutting!! The wheels are coming off.. Second in the over for Imad and Karachi are two wickets away from sealing this game. Slower and drifted across, Hosein goes for the loft downtown and gets it off the toe-end, Cutting settes near long-on and takes a well-judged catch. Akeal Hosein c Cutting b Imad Wasim 2(3)
Imad Wasim to Brathwaite, out Bowled!! Wowza! There have been some peaches in this innings; Malik to Rossouw, Shamsi to Shah but this has to be the best of the lot. Brathwaite had no clue and is left flabbergasted. Imad gets it to drift from round the wicket, the ball pitches on middle and Brathwaite thinks he has it covered by staying back and playing the line, but the ball spins away and hits the top of off-stump. Karachi have this in the bag now. Brathwaite b Imad Wasim 1(4)
Shamsi to Anwar Ali, SIX, just spoils his figures a bit. But that is a brilliant shot from Ali. He shimmies down, gets to the pitch of the ball and lofts it handsomely over long-off. Shamsi still finishes with impressive numbers - 4-0-18-3
Shamsi to Brathwaite, no run, Brathwaite survives thanks to DRS. Shamsi's reaction might have made umpire Ahsan Raza raise his finger there. Flighted and turns in, Brathwaite prods forward and is beaten on the inside edge, rapped on the pads but the ball was turning too much and would have missed leg-stump
Multan review! Brathwaite is given out LBW and he challenges the onfield call. Shamsi didn't even appeal and was off on a celebratory run. Umpire Ahsan Raza took his time before raising the finger. UltraEdge rules out bat. Ball-tracking shows it to be missing leg-stump. Not Out!
Shamsi to Usama Mir,
out Caught by Cutting!! Third wicket for Shamsi. Why has he not played before? Karachi's management will have to answer that question. Shamsi sees Mir shuffle and floats it up outside off, he makes him reach for the loft and Mir can only toe-end it towards long-off, where Cutting takes a fairly
comfortable catch.
Usama Mir c Cutting b Shamsi 10(6) [6s-1]
Imad Wasim to Usama Mir, SIX, massive! Much needed maximum for Multan. Mir comes down the track, gets close to the ball and that allows him to swing across the line, sends it sailing over deep mid-wicket
Shamsi to Khushdil,
out Bowled!! Cleaned up! Shamsi set him up beautifully. He didn't bowl a single googly to Shah and kept bowling the chinaman, now he slips in the wrong 'un and Shah does not pick it, he was shaping to play the cut but the ball spins in to beat the under-edge and crash into middle-stump. Karachi's spinners are
spinning a web around Multan's batters.
Khushdil b Shamsi 4(9)
Shoaib Malik to Rizwan,
out Caught by Tayyab Tahir!! This is a massive wicket. The home crowd are going bonkers. But excellent bowling from Malik. He persists with the round the wicket angle and gets it to drift across, Rizwan leans forward and looks to work it against the angle into the leg-side, the ball hits the shoulder of the bat and
balloons towards point, Tahir runs in and dives forward to take it inches above the ground.
Rizwan c Tayyab Tahir b Shoaib Malik 29(25) [4s-3]
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