QUE vs KAR Live Score - PSL Live Score & Commentary | Quetta Gladiators vs Karachi Kings Score

28th T20 • Lahore

166/4 (20)

143/8 (20)

QG won by 23 runs

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Playing XI

Player of the Match Khurram Shahzad

4/22

QG s

KK s

Info

Quetta Gladiators s

166/4 (20)

Batters

Jason Roy

128.13

c Asif b Hamza

Will Smeed

90.91

c Gregory b Usman Shinwari

James Vince

120.83

b Gregory

Umar Akmal

40.00

c Gregory b Wasim

Iftikhar Ahmed

150.00

Not out

Hassan Khan

150.00

Not out

Extras

(B: 10, LB: 6, NB: 0, W: 3)

TOTAL

(20 Ov, RR: 8.3)

166/4

Did not Bat

Sarfaraz Ahmed, Ashir Qureshi, Naseem Shah, Khurram Shahzad, Mohammad Irfan

Bowlers

EXT

6.75

8.00

8.25

6.25

7.33

11.00

Fall Of Wickets

SCORE

OVER

Will Smeed

c Gregory b Usman Shinwari

1-21

2.6

James Vince

b Gregory

2-111

12.5

Umar Akmal

c Gregory b Wasim

3-117

13.6

Jason Roy

c Asif b Hamza

4-162

19.4

Karachi Kings s

143/8 (20)

Batters

Joe Clarke

133.33

b Irfan

Babar Azam

105.88

b Shahzad

Sharjeel Khan

228.57

b Shahzad

Qasim Akram

90.00

c Smeed b Shah

Rohail Nazir

66.67

c Smeed b Shah

Imad Wasim

110.00

c Akmal b Qureshi

Lewis Gregory

33.33

b Shahzad

Tom Lammonby

0.00

b Shahzad

Umaid Asif

66.67

Not out

Usman Khan- Shinwari

100.00

Not out

Extras

(B: 0, LB: 5, NB: 1, W: 0)

TOTAL

(20 Ov, RR: 7.15)

143/8

Did not Bat

Mir Hamza

Bowlers

EXT

3.50

10.75

7.00

5.50

Ashir Qureshi

7.75

Fall Of Wickets

SCORE

OVER

Babar Azam

b Shahzad

1-87

10.5

Sharjeel Khan

b Shahzad

2-107

12.4

Joe Clarke

b Irfan

3-109

13.5

Qasim Akram

c Smeed b Shah

4-120

15.5

Rohail Nazir

c Smeed b Shah

5-128

17.3

Lewis Gregory

b Shahzad

6-139

18.5

Tom Lammonby

b Shahzad

7-139

18.6

Imad Wasim

c Akmal b Qureshi

8-139

19.1

Match Info

Date & Time

20 Feb, 03:00 PM IST

Venue

Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore

Match

28th T20,

Pakistan Super League

Umpires

Aleem Dar (Pakistan), Asif Yaqoob (Pakistan), Rashid Riaz (Pakistan, TV)

Referee

Ali Naqvi (Pakistan)

Toss

Quetta Gladiators elected to bat

1 1 0 1 1 1

Over 17

Runs: 5

1 1 W 0 1 1

Over 18

Runs: 4

1 6 0 nb 1 W W

Over 19

Runs: 8

W 1 1 0 1 1

Over 20

Runs: 4

All Overs

Player of the Match Khurram Shahzad

4/22

Commentary

MATCH SUMMARY

Quetta Gladiators, batting first - 166 runs for the loss of 4 wickets in their 20 overs; Jason Roy 82 (64)
Karachi Kings, batting second - 143 runs for the loss of 8 wickets in their 20 overs; Joe Clarke 52 (39)

Player of the Match: Khurram Shahzad - [4-0-22-4]

Quetta Gladiators beat Karachi Kings by 23 runs.

What seemed to be a steady and assured run chase at the halfway stage of the 2nd innings turned out to be too much for Karachi Kings as they have now become the first team in PSL history to win only one match in an edition.

Babar Azam and Joe Clarke got Karachi off to a very good start with the former scoring the runs at his own pace and the latter taking the bowling on and finding the boundaries regularly. The Quetta bowling did not find any answers against the opening partnership as things looked bleak for Sarfaraz Ahmed's side, till the time Babar played on.

Sharjeel Khan joined forces with Joe Clarke and the pair threatened to take the match away extremely quickly from the Gladiators, with some powerful hitting. But like Babar, Sharjeel went, bowled to Khurram Shahzad, leaving a bit too much for Clarke to do to finish things off. And that turned out to be the difference as Joe Clarke played a rash shot under pressure to Mohammad Irfan and got castled, leaving two young and inexperienced Karachi batters to take their side home.

Naseem Shah and Khurram Shahzad were clinical at the end as well, with both hitting the right lengths and bowling at their respective paces to both take wickets and check the flow of runs. The second last over from Shahzad saw a no-ball that created a window of opportunity for Karachi Kings to come back into the match, but he then came back to take two crucial wickets to almost put to bed, all the remaining Karachi hopes.

Ashir Qureshi too bowled the last over well and Quetta pulled off a fine victory on a tricky pitch to bat on.

In the 1st innings, after the initial few overs, it got more and more difficult to time the ball properly and hit it to the boundaries. But Jason Roy's batting. almost right through the innings, ensured that one end was anchored, and that Quetta could put up a score of over 160 on the board.

Quetta Gladiators keep a glimmer of hope alive still for play-off qualification, with Islamabad United playing later on tonight against Multan Sultans. If the Mohammad Rizwan-led side can hammer the Islamabad team tonight to a comprehensive victory, Sarfaraz and his side can go through. So Quetta will keep their fingers crossed for this one, though the odds are stacked in favour of Islamabad.

That is all for now from the Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore, but do not forget to tune in to Sportskeeda for the second match of the day! It was an absolute pleasure bringing you all the live action till now, please allow us now - the pair of Pradeep and Bidipto - to take your leave!

Quetta Gladiators captain, Sarfaraz Ahmed: Our batters did try their best to put a big total on the board but the pitch was not that easy to bat on. We won the match though, let's see what happens now, hope Islamabad does not come out to bat tonight! But yes, Khurram Shahzad was brilliant in only his second game. Naseem was good right throughout, we really cannot complain of our bowling, that' for sure.

Karachi Kings captain, Babar Azam: There were positives for sure but we could not delight our fans unfortunately. The injuries did not help us. Mir Hamza was excellent though, but on the whole, the prospect that we had, unfortunately could not bear fruit this season.

Khurram Shahzad has been adjudged the Player of the match for his splendid spell of bowling, picking up four scalps!

Shahzad: I always try to land the ball in the right areas, it came off very well today and I'm quite happy with the end result. Yes, have played just two matches but I got a lot to learn from the peers who I share dressing room with, I always stay positive and perform well.

Quetta Gladiators manage to get the win by 23 runs!

overs

143 /8 score

runs

Umaid Asif

2 (3)

Usman Shinwari *

2 (2)

Ashir Qureshi

1 /31

19.6 Ashir Qureshi to Usman Shinwari, THAT'S IT! IT'S ALL OVER! Gladiators win the crucial encounter but they haven't been able to better the net run rate, depends a lot on the next game that is coming up. Length delivery on the off-stump, Shinwari comes down the track and mistimes it past mid-wicket for a single.

19.5 Ashir Qureshi to Umaid Asif, OH MY GOODNESS! Now Roy who almost pulled up a blinder, length delivery on the off-stump, Asif clobbers it down to long-off, Roy comes flying to his right, gets a hand to it, but as he goes down the ball comes out of the hand as well, he has a laugh in the end.

19.4 Ashir Qureshi to Umaid Asif, fires a short delivery on the fourth stump line, Asif has a big hoick but misses, through to the keeper.

19.3 Ashir Qureshi to Usman Shinwari, tossed up a good length, turning into Shinwari on the middle and off, goes down his knee to heave, goes through to mid-wicket for just a single.