Rizwan, who scored a century, is asked to be out voluntarily

 

Rizwan scored 110 runs off 64 balls | Photo: AFP

16 from 17 balls, 35 from 32 balls or 51 from 43 balls—this is the timeline of Mohammad Rizwan's innings till he scored his fifty yesterday. Can this timeline be called T20 easy batting? maybe not

Especially when you have batsmen like Kieron Pollard, David Miller and Carlos Braffett in the same team. Commentator Simon Dull also pointed this out. The commentator suggested Rizwan's voluntary dismissal due to slow batting.

But Rizwan gave a new shape to the innings that started slowly yesterday. This batsman who scored his fifty off 42 balls scored his century off 60 balls, that is, he scored the next 50 runs off just 18 balls. However, Simon Dull did not lose his mind in Rizwan's late killing batting.

Rizwan played a career-best explosive innings of 110 runs for Multan Sultans against Karachi Kings yesterday at the Multan Cricket Stadium in a Pakistan Super League match. The right-handed batsman hit 10 fours with four sixes in an unbeaten innings of 64 balls. Rizwan scored 16 runs from the first 17 balls in this innings.

When Multan Sultan scored 90 runs for 1 wicket in 12 overs, Rizwan was still batting with 35 runs from 32 balls. This wicketkeeper batsman also had a light injury. Batsmen like Pollard, Miller, Braffett are yet to come to the crease.

Rizwan was asked to come out voluntarily by Simon Dulchai: AFP

Then Simon Dul, who was in the commentary room, advised Rizwan to get out voluntarily, 'It doesn't feel good to say, but he should continue playing now. Batting at a strike rate of just 109, while many aggressive batsmen are yet to come to the crease. Leave the field, Captain. You are the captain of the team, do what is right for the team. You can't get both runs right. You can't help the batsman at your other end at all. Go away, get treatment, you have done what you have to do.'

Basically, Rizwan became marmukhi only after crossing the quota of fifty runs. In addition to scoring his own century, he took the team's runs close to two hundred. However, Simon Dull did not deviate from his explanation, 'Rizwan had an opportunity to make better use of the balls he wasted early on.' Braffett and Miller did not get a chance to bat in this match. Pollard got a chance to play 2 balls.

Multan Sultan beat Karachi Kings by 3 runs in this match yesterday. Karachi was ahead for a while in the hard-fought match. They scored 105 runs in the first 10 overs. 10 to 16 overs – Karachi could have won the match if not for this period. If Karachi won the match, Rizwan might have to listen to Simon Dull!