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| Multan Sultans PSL 6 winner |
Positive positivity and well-being are also important. Mind-making comes from thought, and hardly anything is more powerful than thought.
As the Multan Sultans suffered successive defeats in the PSL's Karachi 'League', in this defeated dressing room environment, instead of grievances and sarcasm, positivity was flourishing to such an extent that it was interpreted as optimistic. It will not be unnecessary to do so.
The team would have been losing from the field and coach Andy Flower would have welcomed all his players with open arms as champions. Talking to Karak Info, Sohaib Maqsood says that sometimes we would laugh that we have lost but our coach still calls us champions.
But Andy Flower was adamant that whether his team won or lost, his attitude should be the same as that of the champions. Anyway, the attitude of the captain of this team, Mohammad Rizwan, has been that of a champion since the International Comeback.
Captaincy in T20 is a lot of courage and patience. Making changes to bowling on key occasions, making adjustments on the field and boosting the confidence of your bowlers if the required run rate is low, if the boundaries are hit, are all very difficult tasks.
But this second birth of Mohammad Rizwan in his cricketing career has so far proved to be astonishing that a year ago today, no one was ready to accept him as a T20 specialist, let alone a regular player in a game of 20 overs. In the first five seasons of PSL, he was rarely seen as part of an XI, otherwise he would have been sitting on the bench and applauding.
When the captaincy of Multan was handed over to him, it was a surprising decision for many. Earlier, they had proved their worth in the T20 Internationals, but in the case of Multan, it was the top team in the table last season and there was nothing wrong with Shaun Masood's captaincy that led to his sudden dismissal.
The highlight of Mohammad Rizwan's captaincy was that he was seen smiling even in moments of intense pressure. While he felt that the bowler would make a mistake in trying to counter-attack, he encouraged him and said something that put a smile on the face of the square eater. In any case, the winner in the battle of the nerves is the one who does not let the tension pass.
Among the few things that played a key role in Multan's success was the excellent discipline of Multan's bowlers. This team threw the least nine balls. Until the final, it was the only team whose bowling unit gave opponents only three free hits.
Then Rizwan's leadership skills gave the batting unit the advantage that the batsmen of this team played at least dot balls unlike all other franchises. Dotball is very important in T20, in death overs, dot balls are considered to be equivalent to one and a half wickets.
As a whole, the discipline and teamwork of this group was so good that even a youngster like Shahnawaz Dhani got excited and the same emerging bowler who was worried about his economy rate at the beginning of the tournament, was finally declared the best bowler of the tournament.
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| Sohaib Maqsood (Multan Sultans)- PSL 6 Final |
Similarly, very few hopes remained attached to Sohaib Maqsood's career. It was ridiculous to think that six years later he would be able to back down in the national team, but his form impressed everyone so much that the national selectors may have used Haider Ali's bubble protocol as an excuse were waiting.
Before the match, Sohaib Maqsood had said that he knew what plan Zalmai would bring against him. He also said that he would come up with a complete counter-attack plan against this plan.
Before the match, Zalmai's captain Wahab Riaz was also saying that all the pressure has been absorbed. According to him, reaching the final of the team on the verge of being eliminated from the tournament meant that the team has learned its lesson.
Wahab's words carried a lot of weight. It was also clear from Zalmai's last few performances that there really was no pressure left on the group.
But last night's final revealed that even though all the pressure had been absorbed, Sohaib Maqsood's pressure was still there and he made such a mistake in Zalmai's bowling that Rousseau also took a deep dip in the flowing Ganges and the Sultans Take the title.
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