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Steve Smith went berserk against RawalPindiZ bowlers in match number 31 of the PSL 2026 season. Opening the innings for Multan Sultans at the National Stadium in Karachi on Tuesday, April 21, the legendary Australian batter pumped out 56 electrifying runs off just 31 deliveries with five boundaries and three huge sixes.
Punishing RawalPindiZ bowlers, Smith seemed to have taken a special liking to uncapped star Razaullah, as he dispatched the young fast bowler for 23 runs in a single over. The Australian run machine launched the young paceman for a boundary and three successive sixes to extract 22 runs in the space of four deliveries itself to set up stage of an empathic Multan Sultans win.
Steve Smith goes bonkers against RawalPindiZ’s Razaullah
Steve Smith, batting at 21* off 18 balls at the end of the eighth over of the Multan Sultans innings, smoked RawalPindiZ fast bowler Razaullah for a scorching boundary towards the off side. Off the very next delivery, the cricketer moved across and dispatched the youngster over square leg for a huge six.
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Smith followed it up with two more sixes, including a majestic ramp over the wicketkeeper’s head to replicate former South African captain and T20 behemoth AB de Villiers. In the process of his batting mayhem, the vintage Australian more than doubled his score, racing to 43* off 22 deliveries.
Smith hammers his second PSL 2026 fifty
The innings also marked Steve Smith’s second half-century of the ongoing PSL 2026 season. Earlier in the tournament, the cricketer struck a match-winning 53 off just 35 balls for the Multan Sultans against the Quetta Gladiators back on April 5 in Lahore.
Playing his maiden PSL season, the 36-year-old has so far minted 231 runs in just eight innings at an average of 28.87 and with a staggering strike rate of 148.07. Steve Smith’s prolific PSL pretty much echoes his BBL 2025-26 heroics earlier this year for the Sydney Sixers.
Multan Sultans solidify themselves at number two
RawalPindiZ won the toss and opted to bat first. Opening batter Shahzaib Khan was dismissed for a four-ball duck by Mohammad Imran, while captain Mohammad Rizwan struggled to get going in his sluggish 26 off 29 balls.
Daryl Mitchell at number three punched out a regal 58* off 46, and Dian Forrester blasted 37* off 15 deliveries with three boundaries and three sixes to surge RawalPindiZ to a competitive 166-4 in 20 overs.
In any case, Steve Smith’s batting heroics at the top, and captain Ashton Turner’s blistering cameo blazed Multan Sultans past the RawalPindiZ with relative ease. Registering their sixth win of the PSL 2026 season in eight matches, the Multan Sultans franchise has now solidified itself at number two on the eight-team points table.
They are trailing only behind hitherto unbeaten Peshawar Zalmi at the top of the standings.
With 12 points in eight matches, Multan Sultans will now face Hyderabad Kingsmen in match 33 of the tournament on Wednesday, April 22.
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