Clinical Multan Sultans secure pad of a best two completion

Legspinner Usama Mir and fast bowler David Willey shared six wickets and routed Quetta Gladiators for 106 as table-toppers Multan Sultans completed their regular season with a 79-run win in the Pakistan Super League on Tuesday. Kings drove the focuses table with seven wins and will take on No. 2 Peshawar Zalmi (12 focuses) in the Qualifier on Thursday with the champ progressing to the last. It was a reminder for the patched up Warriors, who will play their most memorable PSL end of the season games following four years. They will meet Islamabad Joined in the Eliminator on Thursday. Half-hundreds of years by chief Mohammad Rizwan (69) and Johnson Charles (53) of West Indies pushed Rulers to 185 for 4 after they were placed in to bat. Combatants' pursuit went off track in the third over when Jason Roy's run of unfortunate structure went on as Willey (3-22) had him caught leg before wicket and Saud Shakeel (14) got run-out. Willey then thumped back skipper Rilee Rossouw's leg stump with a faultless yorker inside the powerplay and Laurie Evans spooned a cart to midwicket. Mir (3-22), the main wicket-taker of the competition, then eliminated the Combatants' top-scorer Omair Yousuf (37) preceding he immediately went through the tailenders to give Rulers and unequivocal triumph with multiple overs in excess. Prior, Rizwan crushed his fourth 50 years this season and Charles raised the stakes in the demise overs with his 29-ball thump before Iftikhar Ahmed gave an ideal completion a quickfire 20 off eight balls. Multan Sultans 185 for 4 (Rizwan 69, Charles 53, Amir 2-40) beat Quetta Gladiators 106 (Yousuf 37, Willey 3-22, Mir 3-22) by 79 runs