Quetta Gladiators in 2019

The Quetta Gladiators is a franchise cricket team that represents Quetta in the Pakistan Super League. They were one of the six teams that had a competition in the 2019 season.

Quetta Gladiators
2019 season
Coach Moin Khan
Captain Sarfraz Ahmed
PSL 2019Champions[1][2]
Most runs Shane Watson (430)[3]
Most wickets Sohail Tanvir (15)[4]
← 2018 2020 →

The team was captained by Pakistani Skipper Sarfraz Ahmed, coached by Moin Khan and mentored by Viv Richards, while Abdul Razzaq served as Assistant Coach. They became the Champions for the first time ever, after being the Runners-up twice in 2016 and 2017 seasons. They became champions after defeating their arch-rivals Peshawar Zalmi in the final on 17 March at National Stadium.[1][2][5] They finished second after the completion of their group stage matches, winning seven matches from their ten matches.[6] They defeated Peshawar Zalmi in the Qualifier to reach the finals. [7]

Australian player Shane Watson was team's and season's best batsman with 430 runs from 12 matches.[3] He won the Green Cap and Hanif Mohammad award for best batsman of the season, while Sohail Tanvir with 15 wickets from 12 matches was the leading wicket taker for the team and finished in top five bowlers of the season. [4]

Squad
Quetta Gladiators
No. Name Nat. Birth date Bat Bowl Sign Notes
Batsmen
04 Rilee Rossouw (1989-10-09) 9 October 1989 L R off break 2019 Overseas
05 Saud Shakeel (1995-09-05) 5 September 1995 L L orthodox 2019
19 Ahmed Shehzad (1991-11-23) 23 November 1991 R R leg break 2018
23 Ahsan Ali (1993-12-10) 10 December 1993 R R leg break 2019
All-rounders
21 Mohammad Nawaz (1994-03-21) 21 March 1994 R slow L orthodox 2018
33 Sohail Tanvir (1984-12-12) 12 December 1984 L L medium fast 2018
N/A Shane Watson (1981-06-17) 17 June 1981 R R fast medium 2018 Overseas
47 Dwayne Bravo (1983-10-07) 7 October 1983 R R medium fast 2019 Overseas
48 Anwar Ali (1987-11-25) 25 November 1987 R R fast medium 2018
814 Dwayne Smith (1983-04-12) 12 April 1983 R R medium 2019 Overseas
N/A Danish Aziz (1995-11-20) 20 November 1995 L slow L orthodox 2019
N/A Sunil Narine (1988-05-26) 26 May 1988 L R off-spin 2019 Overseas
N/A Jalat Khan (1986-02-03) 3 February 1986 L Slow L orthodox 2019
Wicket-keepers
45 Azam Khan (1998-08-10) 10 August 1998 L — 2019
54 Sarfaraz Ahmed (1987-05-22) 22 May 1987 R — 2019 Captain
96 Umar Akmal (1990-05-26) 26 May 1990 R R off spin 2019
Bowlers
010 Max Waller (1988-03-03) 3 March 1988 R R Leg Break 2019 Overseas
10 Ghulam Mudassar (1999-09-24) 24 September 1999 R R off break 2019
11 Harry Gurney (1986-10-25) 25 October 1986 R L medium fast 2019 Overseas
17 Mohammad Asghar (1998-12-28) 28 December 1998 L slow L orthodox 2019
22 Mohammad Irfan (1995-05-15) 15 May 1995 R R fast 2019
N/A Mohammad Hasnain (2000-04-05) 5 April 2000 R R fast 2019
52 Fawad Ahmed (1982-02-05) 5 February 1982 R R Leg-break 2019 Overseas
N/A Naseem Shah[lower-alpha 1] (2003-02-15) 15 February 2003 R R fast 2019
  1. Injured, replaced by Mohammad Hasnain in the squad

Season standings

Points table
Pos Team Pld W L T NR Pts NRR
1 Peshawar Zalmi (R) 10 7 3 0 0 14 0.828
2 Quetta Gladiators (C) 10 7 3 0 0 14 0.376
3 Islamabad United (3rd) 10 5 5 0 0 10 0.127
4 Karachi Kings (4th) 10 5 5 0 0 10 −0.673
5 Multan Sultans 10 3 7 0 0 6 0.173
6 Lahore Qalandars 10 3 7 0 0 6 −0.837
Source: ESPNcricinfo
  • The top 4 teams qualified for the playoffs
  •   Advanced to Qualifier
  •   Advanced to Eliminator 1

Notes:

  • C = Champions;
  • R = Runner-up;
  • (x) = Position at the end of the tournament;

Season summary

Gladiators finished the group stage with second position by winning seven of their matches and losing three.[8] They then defeated Peshawar Zalmi in the qualifier by 10 runs to reach the final.[9]

In the final in Karachi, Gladiators won the toss and elected to field. Gladiators restricted Zalmi to 138-8 in 20 overs with pacer Mohammad Hasnain finishing his four overs with the figures of 3-30 and Dwayne Bravo finishing with 2-24. In the second innings, Ahmed Shehzad scored unbeaten 58 runs off 51-balls. Rilee Rossouw, who made 39 not out off 32 balls, took the winning single. Gladiators achieved the target in 17.5 overs defeating Peshawar Zalmi by 8 wickets to win their first title. Gladiators' Hasnain was awarded man of the match award.[1]

Reference
  1. "PSL Final 2019: Quetta Gladiators clinch maiden PSL title". The News International. 18 March 2019.
  2. "Quetta Gladiators overwhelm Peshawar Zalmi to clinch the maiden PSL Title". Dawn. 17 March 2019. Retrieved 24 April 2019.
  3. "Records / Most Runs / 2019 Season / Quetta Gladiators". ESPNCricinfo. Retrieved 18 March 2019.
  4. "Records / Most Wickets / 2019 Season / Quetta Gladiators". ESPNCricinfo. Retrieved 18 March 2019.
  5. "Quetta Gladiators defeat Peshawar Zalmi, clinch PSL-4 trophy". Dunya News. Retrieved 18 March 2019.
  6. "Points Table –Pakistan Super League 2019". Retrieved 17 March 2019 – via ESPNCricinfo.
  7. "Shane Watson stars with bat and ball to put Quetta Gladiators in the finals". Dunya News. Retrieved 18 March 2019.
  8. "Gladiators seal berth in PSL 2019 final with 10-run victory over Zalmi". Dawn. 13 March 2019. Retrieved 14 March 2019.
  9. "Quetta Gladiators into PSL 2019 final after beating Peshawar Zalmi". Samaa.
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