KARACHI – A cameo all-round per­for­mance by for­mer West In­dies Twen­ty20 cap­tain, Car­los Brath­waite, went in vain as his Mul­tan Sul­tans crashed to a three-wick­et loss to two-time cham­pi­ons Is­lam­abad Unit­ed in the Pak­istan Su­per League on Sun­day.

Sent in, Sul­tans post­ed 150 for eight off their 20 overs at the Na­tion­al Sta­di­um, with cap­tain Mo­ham­mad Rizwan top-scor­ing with 71 off 53 balls and South African Rilee Rossouw chip­ping in with 25 from 14 de­liv­er­ies.

Open­er Rizwan struck eight fours and a cou­ple of six­es, first in a 48-run sec­ond wick­et stand with James Vince (16) and then in a 35-run, third wick­et part­ner­ship with Rossouw, who belt­ed two fours and six­es.

Once Rossouw holed out to short third man off leg-spin­ner Shadab Khan, Unit­ed lost three wick­ets for 21 runs be­fore Brath­waite ar­rived to pum­mel two fours and a six in a 14-ball un­beat­en 22, in­spir­ing a 32-run sixth wick­et stand with Rizwan.

Teenaged seam­er Mo­ham­mad Wasim (3-29) yorked Rizwan off-stump to break the stand in the penul­ti­mate over of the in­nings and al­so re­moved vet­er­an all-rounder Shahid Afri­di with the very next de­liv­ery, sky­ing to Shadab at short cov­er.

In re­ply, Unit­ed reached their tar­get with an over to spare, with Lewis Gre­go­ry hit­ting an un­beat­en 49 to see them over the line.

They were scram­bling at 74 for six in the 12th over but Gre­go­ry struck half-dozen fours and a six off 31 de­liv­er­ies, putting on 43 for the sev­enth wick­et with Fa­heem Ashraf (22) and a cru­cial 34 in an un­bro­ken eight wick­et stand with Za­far Go­har (3 not out).

Eng­lish­man Alex Hales had ear­li­er hit 29 off 20 de­liv­er­ies with two fours and six­es.

Brath­waite fin­ished with two for 23 from his four overs of medi­um pace.

In the oth­er game at the venue, Guyana and West In­dies all-rounder, Sher­fane Ruther­ford, struck 26 from 24 de­liv­er­ies but his Pe­shawar Zal­mi went down by four wick­ets to La­hore Qa­lan­ders.

And on Sat­ur­day, vet­er­an West In­dies open­er Chris Gayle hit 39 from 24 balls for Quet­ta Glad­i­a­tors fold­ed for 121 and Karachi Kings eas­i­ly over­hauled their tar­get in the 14th over.

CMC