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Earlier, Quetta Gladiators won the toss and decided to bat first.
Coming off defeats in their opening games, Quetta Gladiators and Hyderabad Kingsmen will be looking for their first victory when they clash at the Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore. It will be a day game in the scorching heat of Lahore. Spin bowlers from both sides would hold the key as they attempt to get their side’s campaign off to a start.
Quetta Gladiators were defeated by Karachi Kings in their opening game of the season. Led by Saud Shakeel, the Gladiators lost by 14 runs on the 27th March. They boast a strong bowling attack featuring spinners like Abrar Ahmed and Usman Tariq. Alzarri Joseph and Tom Curran are the leaders of the pace attack. However, their batting order is not the strongest. Apart from a fifty from Shamyl Hussain, the batters failed in their first game of the season.
Hyderabad Kingsmen, like their opponents, started their campaign with a loss. They are currently placed at the bottom of the points table as a result of their 69-run loss against the Lahore Qalandars.
Led by Marnus Labuschagne, the Kingsmen were right in the middle of one of the rarest incidents in their opening match. During their hefty loss against the defending champions, Lahore Qalandars, Labuschagne’s side noticed that rubbing the white ball against their kits turned the ball pink.
It was a complete batting failure for the Kingsmen in their opening game. The skipper top-scored with a 26-run knock in 22 balls. Openers Saim Ayub and Usman Khan failed and scored 26 runs off 19 balls collectively. Their poor results at the top of the order resulted in a sound defeat for their side.
Saud Shakeel (C), Shamyl Hussain, Khawaja Nafay, Rilee Rossouw, Hasan Nawaz, Ben McDermott (wk), Tom Curran, Ahmed Daniyal, Alzarri Joseph, Abrar Ahmed, Usman Tariq, Sam Harper, Bevon Jacobs, Brett Hampton, Bismillah Khan, Ahsan Ali, Jahanzaib Sultan, Wasim Akram, Jahandad Khan, Khan Zaib, Saqib Khan
Marnus Labuschagne (C), Saim Ayub, Usman Khan (wk), Kusal Perera, Irfan Khan, Rizwan Mehmood, Hassan Khan, Hammad Azam, Riley Meredith, Akif Javed, Mohammad Ali, Sharjeel Khan, Maaz Sadaqat, Shayan Jahangir, Syed Saad Ali, Maheesh Theekshana, Mohammad Tayyab Arif, Hunain Shah, Asif Mehmood
Usman Khan missed a stumping off Marnus Labuschagne’s bowling in the 10th over. However, it turned out that Labuschagne had committed the cardinal sin of overstepping as a spinner. The free hit resulted in a six from Shamyl Hussain to make matters worse.
Spinners have dominated the proceedings for Hyderabad Kingsmen. Despite only two wickets falling to Riley Meredith’s express pace, it is the spinners who have bowled the bulk of the overs at the halfway mark of the innings. Seven of the first 10 overs have been bowled by spinners including two from skipper, Labuschagne.
Seeing the purchase that Saim got, Marnus Labuschagne did not waste any time to bring himself into the attack. The right-arm leg-spinner was welcomed with a four off the first ball but gave away only seven runs in eighth over.
Saim Ayub has started brilliantly for his team with the ball in hand. In spite of being wicketless, the spinner has created an impact with his controlled bowling giving only seven runs off his first two overs.
Both Shamyl Hussain and Hasan Nawaz struck a boundary each in the final over of the power play to gain momentum for their side. Akif Javed was the bowler on the receiving end as he conceded 15 runs in his opening over.