In the finals, Lahore Qalandars won the toss and opted to bat. The final took place at Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore.
Lahore Qalandar didn’t start firmly. The team was 3 down for 25 in the 5th over. They needed a foundational partnership and Kamran Ghulam and Hafeez certainly delivered it.
However, Hafeez was the run scorer in that partnership while Ghulam batted quite slowly and struggled to hit boundaries. Consequently, he lost his wicket in the 12th over, having scored 15 off 20 balls.
Thereafter, Hafeez and Harry Brooks went after Mutan Sultans bowlers and made 58 run partnership in less than 6 overs.
Brooks scored 41 off 22 balls and Hafeez scored 69 off 46 balls. And again, something identical from the last match took place. David Wiese, hero of the eliminator match, scored 28 of 8 balls which he did in the last match against IU.
Khushdil and Imran Tahir bowled economically and the former bagged 3 wickets for just 19 runs. Tahir remained wicketless but conceded only 22 runs in 4 overs.
David Willey and Raees conceded too many runs which gave Lahore Qalandars advantage to score a good total of 180 runs.
In a final, 180 is considered a good score. Multan Sultans started pretty well and scored 36 runs in the first four overs. From thereafter, their batting started to collapse.
Captain Rizwan was bowled by Hafeez in the 5th over and in the following over, the other opener was run out by Fakhar Zaman.
T20 specialist Rilee Rossouw, too, struggled and scored 15 off 22 balls before losing his wicket to Zaman Khan.
In the 11th over, Multan Sultans were at 63 runs having lost 5 wickets. In the course of 27 runs, the team lost 5 wickets. From such turmoil, the victory looked unattainable.
Credit to the bowling attack of Lahore Qalandars, all of them were economical and made significant contributions in putting Lahore Qalandars under pressure.
The young captain Shaheen Afridi took 3 wickets for 30 runs. Hafeez and Zaman shared 2-2 wickets each. Haris Rauf and David Wiese shared 1-1 wicket each.