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“This is the tournament Khushdil Shah levels up as a player”: Khushdil Shah grabs a stunning catch to dismiss Will Smeed during Quetta Gladiators vs Multan Sultans PSL 2022 match

Gurpreet Singh
|PublishedJan 31, 2022

"This is the tournament Khushdil Shah levels up as a player": Khushdil Shah grabs a stunning catch to dismiss Will Smeed during Quetta Gladiators vs Multan Sultans PSL 2022 match

Khushdil Shah grabs a stunning catch during Quetta Gladiators versus Multan Sultans match at the National Stadium in Karachi.

During the seventh match of the ongoing seventh season of the Pakistan Super League between Quetta Gladiators and Multan Sultans at the National Stadium in Karachi, Multan’s left-arm spinner Khushdil Shah took a blinder of a catch to dismiss Gladiators’ opening batter Will Smeed.

The event happened during the second delivery of the 3^rd Over with Quetta chasing the score of 174/3 posted by Multan.

Khushdil bowled a short but a quick delivery around the stomach height to right-handed Smeed as his eyes got lit up and mind ready to dismiss the ball from his sight. He went on the back foot alright, but got hurried away courtesy the pacey delivery, and ultimately managed to smack the delivery straight back towards the umpire.

Quick to react, Khushdil threw himself to his right and grabbed a two-handed stunner to send Will Smeed packing at the score of 3 (5).

On what seems to be a relatively tacky surface, Multan skipper Mohammad Rizwan handed the new ball to Khushdil, and the 26-year-old did oblige by giving away only three runs in the opening Over.

Post picking up the first wicket in only his second Over, Khushdil picked up yet another wicket in his 3^rd Over to get rid of in-form Ahsan Ali. His bowling figures so far, at the time of writing, read 3-0-7-2.

Khushdil Shah grabs a stunning catch to dismiss Will Smeed

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Gurpreet Singh

Gurpreet Singh is a Cricket writer at The Sportsrush. His platonic relationship with sports had always been there since childhood, but Cricket managed to strike a special, intimate nerve of his heart. Although his initial dream of playing the sport at the highest level couldn't come to fruition, Gurpreet did represent the state of Jharkhand at the under-14 level. However, almost like taking a pledge to never let the undying passion for Cricket fade away even a tad, he made sure to continue the love relationship by assigning the field of journalism as an indirect Cupid. He thus, first finished his bachelor's in journalism and then pursued the PG Diploma course in English journalism from the Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC). Soon after and since 2019, he has been working at The Sportsrush. Apart from sports, he takes keen interest in politics, and in understanding women and gender-related issues.