Multan Sultans vs Lahore Qalandars, Pakistan Super League 2020, Today Match Prediction 15 Nov 2020

mls vs lhq Match Prediction & Analysis

PSL2020 is all set to a grand finish with the play-offs matches between the top-4 teams. Multan Sultans lost to Karachi Kings in a thrilling super over contest in the Qualifier 1 and will play the Eliminator 2 match. Lahore Qalanders beat the Peshawar Zalmi comfortably to go ahead into the eliminator 2 match.  Both teams will need to win this match to go to the finals where they will meet Karachi Kings for the PSL title. The loser of this match will be knocked out of the league and both teams will look to put their best performance to give themselves a chance to win the PSL title.

TEAMS PREVIEW

Multan Sultans Preview

Multan Sultans crumbled to 40/4 with all their top-4 batsmen being dismissed at the end of the power play. Ravi Bopara rebuild the innings with his 40 runs while Sohail Tanvir produced the finishing touched with his 13-ball 25 runs.  Multan Sultans ended with a competitive total of 141 runs on board in the last game.

Multan Sultan bowlers despite failing to take wickets in the first half of the chase came back strongly to tie the match. Sohail Tanvir led the bowling attack with 3 wickets while Mohammed Ilayas and Imran Tahir bolwed well in tandem to have combined bowling figures of 8-0-51-2 in the match.

Top players to bet on:

Sohail Tanvir – Tanvir was the MVP of the team with bowling figures of 4-0-25-3 and scored 25 runs off 13 balls with the bat. He also bowled the super over for the team but was unlucky to end up on the losing side.

Mohammed Ilyaas – Ilyas had bowling figures of 4-0-29-1 in the Qualifier 1 and he defended 7 runs off the last over to take the match to the super over. He will look to continue his top form with the ball in this match too.

Multan Sultans Predicted Playing XI:

Adam Lyth, Zeeshan Ashraf (wk), Shan Masood (c), Rilee Rossouw, Ravi Bopara, Khushdil Shah, Shahid Afridi, Sohail Tanvir, Mohammad Ilyas, Imran Tahir, Mohammad Irfan/Junaid Khan

Lahore Qalandars Preview

Lahore Qalanders chased down a massive total of 170 runs in the last game against Peshawar Zalmi. They were struggling at 33/3 before Mohamed Hafeez took on the bowling attack scoring 76 runs off 45 balls. Ben Dunk, Samit Patel, and David Wiese chipped with vital cameos to provide good support at the other end.

Their bowlers were taken for a lot of runs despite taking wickets at the regular intervals. Dilbar Hussain picked up 3 wickets in the middle overs to strangle the opposition. David Wiese and Haris rauf picked up 2 wickets ach but leaked runs at over 10 RPO. Shaheen Afridi was the best bowler with figures of 4-0-19-2 in the match.

Top players to bet on:

Shaheen Afridi – Shaheen Afridi made a superb mark in the Vitality T20 blast at England and will look to continue his good form with the ball in PSL too. He is one of the busy players after the pandemic across the different leagues.   

Mohammed Hafeez – Hafeez is having an excellent year with the bat scoring runs at all T2 matches. He was sublime last night in the chase to take his team to the next stage of the tournament.

Lahore Qalandars Predicted Playing XI:

Fakhar Zaman, Tamim Iqbal, Mohammad Hafeez, Sohail Akhtar (c), Ben Dunk (wk), Samit Patel, David Wiese, Muhammad Faizan, Shaheen Afridi, Haris Rauf, Dilbar Hussain

PITCH AND WEATHER CONDITIONS

Weather Conditions

Karachi has a hot and sunny weather with bright sunshine on the match day. We expect no weather interruptions in this match.

Venue Details

Karachi pitch has a good balance between the bat and ball with slightly in favor of batsmen. The ball will come onto the bat at nice pace and pacers will get good carry on this track. We expect the average scores to be around 160 runs in this pitch.

Toss: To Bowl

Chasing teams almost won both the matches played here last night and both captains will look to chase down the total.