WATCH: Frustrated Mohammad Rizwan slams bat in pitch after run out at non-striker’s end

Pakistan batter Mohammad Rizwan has been in jaw-dropping form over the last 12 months and there’s not many ways a bowler has been able to get him out. Having scored over 2000 T20 runs in 2021, he started off the year in an auspicious manner. The 29-year-old led the Multan Sultans to three back-to-back wins in the 2022 Pakistan Super League (PSL).

But on Tuesday’s match against Islamabad United, the rub of the green didn’t go his way. During the game at the National Stadium in Karachi, Rizwan got out in the most unfortunate of manners. He started his knock with two cracking fours and looked to amass another massive score. But fate had other ideas as Rizwan was run out at the non-striker’s end.

In the fifth ball of the fifth over, Shan Masood tried to go downtown to fetch a four off Mohammad Wasim Jr. The bowler tried to stop the ball in his run-up, but failed to do so. However, the ball deflected off Wasim Jr’s hands and crashed onto the stumps. Rizwan was well out of his crease and he started making the walk-back immediately.

Here’s the video of Mohammad Rizwan showing his frustration

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— PakistanSuperLeague (@thePSLt20) February 1, 2022

Even as the Sultans are sitting pretty on top of the points table, Rizwan’s own form with the bat has been worth envying. In the Sultans’ first game of the tournament, he scored an unbeaten 52 in a tense run-chase against the Karachi Kings. Thereafter, he played another match-winning knock of 69 against the Shaheen Shah Afridi-led Lahore Qalandars.

But in the Sultans’ third game against the Quetta Gladiators, led by former national captain Sarfaraz Ahmed, he fetched a duck. As far as the ongoing game is concerned, apart from Rizwan, hard-hitter Sohaib Maqsood also got run out.

Maqsood was caught short at the striker’s end after he failed to complete two runs. Asif Ali and Azam Khan combined to complete the run out. Masood went on to score 43 runs off 31 balls with five fours and two sixes before Marchant de Lange accounted for his wicket.

The Sultans won the 2021 edition of the PSL after Rizwan replaced Masood as their skipper. Rizwan has been among their leading run-scorers and has time and again showed his class with the bat.