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The Pakistan Super League (PSL) 2019 is beginning from 14th February and will last till 17th March. This thread is dedicated to the discussion related to this league's matches.

The schedule for the league is provided here at the official website of PCB: https://www.pcb.com.pk/downloads/PSL%202019%20-%20Schedules%20(2).pdf

PSL 4 (2019) will begin from today.

The list of players of the six teams can be found here:

https://www.cricingif.com/news/25355/PSL-Squads-2019--PSL-Teams-and-Players-List

The first match (today) will be played between Islamabad United and Lahore Qalandars; I'm expecting Lahore Qalandars to win this one.

Read here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5102095.msg49735708#msg49735708

Let me know if you are up. I guess we can do something about it.

Cheers :-)

Good to see PSL 2019 is started , I have almost no knowledge about this super league. All I know is it is organized by Pakistan Cricket board.I have one question which is I am seeing almost all international team like IND,AUS,NZ,BAN,SA,SL are busy with their own international matches.So definitely many big players will be mission on PSL which might affect the tournament.  

The first match of PSL (between Lahore Qalandars and Islamabad United) in Dubai seems to be heating up, and even with just 7 overs left in the conclusion of the match, the result could go either way. Islamabad United requires 57 runs off 40 balls, and they still have 7 wickets in hand. However, my guess is that they won't be able to win this one due to a quite weak middle-order.

EDIT: Looks like Islamabad United won this one by 5 wickets.


Hah, well, that thread could be kept for international ICC T20 series & matches (instead of T20 leagues), so it's not like that I'm trying to steal its activity! ;D

About the prize pool, I think it'd not be appropriate if we do that here in the "Gambling discussion" section. AFAIK, games like these should be posted in "Games and rounds", not in this section.

Today there are two matches and I have time to watch the matches. By the way, which team do you have the best possibility to win? I have no clue about their strengths.


I think this board is the right place for this. Check this: Bitcointalk's UEFA Champions League Football Preditor Pool £25 in btc to join (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4919683.0), it's in this same board.

ahh really nice to see PSL Matches,big stars players joined PSL.i supporting Lahore Qualenders ;D ;D ;D

Currently Multan Sultans vs Islamabad United is going on. Multan Sultan won the toss and decided to chase. Islamabad United seems to be in big trouble as they are down 2 wickets while scoring just 26 runs in 5 overs. Luke Ronchi is still out there in the middle though scoring 21 of 18 balls. Need a big innings from him. I think Multan Sultans will win it without much trouble though as they have a formidable batting line up with Shoaib Malik, Andre Russel, Jason Charles and the perfect man for T20 cricket, Shahid Afridi. That line up looks prime to chase down any target lower than 160 with ease.

PSL is missing a lot of players this season till now. It will be more interesting when some more player will join. Otherwise, it will be risky to predict since most of the players are unknown.

Predicting on a player you don't even know is hard because you don't know how that player play but there are also an unknown player that you didn't know but a good player like a new rising superstar. If the players still the same theb you only gamble small amount for your prediction.

Like IPL even PSL also getting prioritised on this forum I guess. However this is really good initiations and people will get attracted and play with cryptos for PSL too.
Let's see who is going best player or man of series in league matches.
Indian team picks the  best player from that local series they also need to do such initiation.

In an hour Islamabad United vs Quetta Gladiators is going to start. Who is waiting to watch the match? I have not done much research so not sure who is going to win however I am looking forward to see few matches before I make my own assumptions.

Edit:
After winning the toss Quetta skipper decided to bowl first.

Islamabad United is the one of the weakest team of this tournament in 2019. (Although they were the winners last Year).
92/6 after 14 overs seems they will lose this match too. They need to play out remaining overs and ball to their best in order for them to have any chance in this match.

Thanks for the feedback now I know about the Islamabad team a little.

The first over from tanvir was killer. It was a maiden two wickets. From 1st and last balls. Now they scored 116 runs after losing 6 overs. 4 overs to go. May be they will cross 150 runs but in T20 150 is not enough. At-least recent T20s.

Today both matches was not good enough but still I able to have bets on both and won because these leagues doing nothing for cricket these are giving some good and handsome money for bookies and punters so today I try with my experience and knowledge of cricket this works and won both matches. Now we have two days rest hopefully in next phase I can predict some good picks in this PSL.

Today easy win for PZ.LQ played very poor cricket.Strong team all out for just 78 score :-\.Congrts PZ

Yes, it was an easy win for Peshawar Zalmi. The target given by Lahore Qalandars batting line-up was too low to defend; the bowlers looked like they had given up from the start of bowling because of this very low target.

Lahore Qalandars is now once again on the bottom of the points table! ::)


I'll check it out!

I have seen only two matches in this PSL both are yesterday.
Islamabad United vs Quetta Gladiators
Lahore Qalandars vs Peshawar Zalmi

So far I got good impression for Quetta and Peshawar Zalmi. I will need to see few more matches before I start making my predictions. Zalmi has a good bowing attack. Well done.

We can say Complete package about Quetta and Zalmi need some time as they are also good but need to work out on some things or taking time Islamabad is also good but they need some good leader which can lead them from front.

I am still digesting information because I am not familiar with any of the teams in PSL. After seeing few more matches I may tell things about the teams. I am looking forward to the next match.

Hafeez won't be able to be a part of remaining matches of PSL 2019:

Fractured thumb forces Hafeez out of PSL 2019 season

https://www.dawn.com/news/1464586/fractured-thumb-forces-hafeez-out-of-psl-2019-season

Bad for Lahore Qalandars... It seems like AB de Villiers will now be the captain of Lahore Qalandars in all of the remaining matches of PSL 2019.

Well, congratulations then because Lahore Qalanders looks strong this time though lost their first match against Islamabad United in the first match of the league. Qalanders have good management and a blend of potential in every area. The league is going great with people gambling around the world on one or another team winning/loosing millions of dollars. This is another underground economy attached to the leagues.

What are the possibilities for Lahore Qalandars to be in the final? I see they won one match out of three. The only win with Karachi Kings.

How about Karachi Kings? I see they have won match against Multan Sultans who is currently in the third position in the point table.

Quetta Gladiators is looking a good team so far to me.

OK, I'll sum up Lahore Qalandar's past performance for you:

2016 PSL: Lahore Qalandars got the 5th position out of the 5 teams in the tournament.
2017 PSL: Lahore Qalandars got the 5th position out of the 5 teams in the tournament.
2018 PSL: Lahore Qalandars got the 6th position out of the 6 teams in the tournament.
2019 PSL: So far, they're on the bottom once again on the points table. ;D

On paper, IMO, Karachi Kings is the strongest team this time.

Thanks Raja. It helps a lot. My eyes are on Karachi Kings and Quetta Gladiators.

Quetta Gladiators have match today with Multan Sultans. I will be watching it. I have no idea about Multan Sultans, the team strength, player's forms. Are they better team than Quetta Gladiators.

Right now both teams equal but Quetta doing some better then Sultans because they are complete package this year they are going to do something big.

Thanks for your input.
I just had a history dug up and I see they have faced each others twice. Both won one against each others last year. The betting odds are same too. Seems like it's hard to pick one based on last years stats however I am going for a blind pick.

Quetta!

Quetta Gladiators just won the third consecutive match today - this time they were up against Multan Sultans; Sarfaraz's team on top of the list (on points table)! :)

Shane Watson, the man of the match, played an awesome inning today - 61 runs off 40 balls. If he can continue playing with the same momentum in upcoming matches of PSL 4, it'll surely help Gladiators in winning the league!

So far I see them the strongest among all of the team in PSL. I may need to see few more matches to predict an outright team to win the tournament.

Today they have Karachi Kings vs Peshawar Zalmi. I have seen Peshawar Zalmi's match and noticed their bowling attack is good. In this match my bet is for Peshawar Zalmi.

The first match of the day was played between Multan Sulatns and Karachi Kings. Karachi Kings did pretty well outplaying the bowlers of the opposite team scoring 150 runs in 15 overs for the loss of no wicket which was followed by quick loss of wickets and just 20 runs in 5 overs. I have this instinct that Multan Sultan could win the game only if they played the first ten overs well. My favorite for the second match of the day is Peshawar Zalmi.

You mean the first match of Karachi Kings vs Multan Sultans? This was the 2nd match of the tournament. I could not watch the match but I followed the score and it was really upsetting to score 183 even after a great opening partnership of 157 runs. Luckily Karachi Kings won.

It will be interesting to see how far they will go today against Peshawar Zalmi.

Hello t20 fans! Make some buzz here!

As I predicted yesterday, Peshawar Zalmi won.

Today in between Lahore Qalandars vs Multan Sultan, my bet is for Multan Sultan. After losing the toss they were asked to bat and so far they have scored 155 runs after losing only 2 wickets. And guess what? Only 14 overs gone!

We are going to see some massive scores.

It's 200 after 20 overs for losing 6 wickets. That's a good score. Well done by Vince. I hope Multan will win the match although Lahore has the greatest batting line of like ABD, Fakhar and Salman Butt, nice to see him here.

After seeing 155 only from 14 overs I thought they were going to score more runs. The blowers did well to pick some wickets at the end. Still 200 runs are very good target though. I don't think Multan Sultans's bowlers will do bed bowling to allow Lahore Qalandars to score it.

I am still 100% confident that Multan Sultans are going to win.

Agreed but you can't deny that Lahore has a good batting line up. If a single player can hit a big score, it will be an easier chase at the end. I am looking at ABD and hope he will show something good.

Guys Lahore is really playing well. They need 42 from 19 balls. De Villiers is rocking! In-fact both David Wiese and De Villiers is playing very well. They can even change the equation.

Good game so far.

EDIT: WOW! Wiese gets a life. Drama

The second match (between Islamabad United and Peshawar Zalmi) has been won by Islamabad United; the last-over hat-trick by Mohammad Sami really helped the team in getting this win.

Two interesting matches coming up tomorrow:

1) Quetta Gladiators v Lahore Qalandars
2) Islamabad United v Karachi Kings

Fnatastic knock from Lahore. Chasing 200 runs is not an easy work and they did it. Fakhar, ABD and Wiese really gave great effort. I missed the second innings. Sorry Royse, you have lost in the bet.

Yh but I am good. This is how it works. Multan Sultans had it but de Villiers and Wiese had something else in mind. I will give credits to both of them. Without Wiese I don't think de Villiers could make it.

This time your prediction went wrong and Lahore Qalandars won the match. Thanks to aggressive batting by AB de Villiers, who really helped a lot in that winning and of course it would not have been possible without the last ball six by the Lahori Qalandars   ;)

yh but as I said always I did not have much idea about the team.

I am watching Lahore and Quetta Gladiators match now. Quetta is my team so far LOL. It will be interesting to see what de Villiers do today. He is betting now. Scored so far 29 out of 22 balls.

Well again you choose the wrong team  ;)   
De Villiers is still batting and the overall score looks good for Lahore. If they manage to score about 175 +, i can easily bet on Lahore Qalandars. However Quetta is one of the strongest team of the competition.

Not sure but the reason of choosing Quetta is because of their strength. De Villiers is still betting. Wiese out. Lahore Qalandars is now have 128 runs after losing 5 wickets. 18 over is going to start now.

Well, Quetta won this nail bitter match only on the last ball. This was a great game of cricket and went right down to the last ball of the match.
PSL matches are becoming more tense as the tournament is progressing.

It's becoming more clear to me that Quetta will win the tournament. They have the strength and confidence to win it. Lahore played well today like yesterday but it was not their day. Well done Quetta.

The real issue with Quetta Gladiators is the loss of momentum at the time when the tournament is about to finish. They've been in the finals for a couple of times, but they face real difficulty in semi-finals and finals. Quetta Gladiators might win all of these (ten) matches, but if they're unable to win the finals, these wins will actually be totally useless. I personally would like to see Sarfaraz winning this league as it'll prove that he is the best option available (for captaincy) for the ICC World Cup 2019.

I did not have their history in mind. I was judging them seeing their performance in this tournament and I see a very strong team comparing to others. So my bet still stay for Quetta. I hope they win the tournament.

Today they have match with Karachi Kings. They should win it easily. I am wondering about Multan Sultans vs Peshawari Zalmi Match. I can not pick any from them.

Peshawari Zalmi easily won the match as they are much stronger team. Multan Sultans  may not make it to the last 4. There team is good but they have lot a lot of matches.
For the 2nd match, karachi needs to win it in order to stay in the tournament and it will be tough to beat the unbeaten Quetta team today.

Karachi is probably going to lose this one too; Umar Akmal and Russouw are putting some good scores right now. However, what makes you so sure that Karachi will be out of the tournament if they lose this one? It's still just the 5th match of the 10 matches (for Karachi)!

Good to see that Peshawari won the match. Multan Sultans were doing well in one stage. They scored 92 or 93 runs from only 10 overs but then Shoaib Malik  and DT Christian started to waste balls for the next 5/6 overs. I have no idea what was their game plan. This slowed down the run rate or they could easily score 190+ runs.

Chasing 145 runs was an easy target for Zalmi but Multan bowlers restricted them until the 2nd last balls to win.

I am watching Quetta vs Karachi Kings. If I am not wrong then I am expecting an easy win for Quetta.

By the way, if you are into IPL then I would like a feedback for this: IPL 2019 Perdition Pool [proposal] (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5113733.0)

Yes, there are still 5 matches to go for karachi after this one, but then they have to win maybe 4 of them atleast and it will not be an easy task considering their current performances.

Karachi won the match against Quetta, thanks to the massive 100+ run inning of Colin Ingram!


Heh, from next time, try to be a bit accurate with your words... :P

I was quite accurate with my words  but never expected this type of comeback from karachi !!!
Karachi win was no less than a miracle. Colin Ingram first century for this PSL turned out to be a match winner.  Well with this win the tournament is wide open for any four teams to quality for top 4.

Today was a break day; the next match will be played between Islamabad United and Multan Sultans in Dubai tomorrow.


Actually, if Karachi loses another match (or even two matches), it's not like they'll be out of the tournament.

I was expecting Multan Sultan to win and they did. Although Multan Sultan and Islamabad United played one more matches than others but having 2 points for Multan Sultan was great.

Islamabad United has another match today with Karachi Kings. My calculation is that Islamabad United should win the match and in between Quetta Gladiators and Lahore Qalandars my bet is for Quetta Gladiators.

https://i.imgur.com/NbISZdU.png

https://i.imgur.com/ekPncLp.png

Well, Qalandars won against Gladiators and United won against the Kings. The first match went completely one-sided, with Qalandars leading all the way from the very start; however, the second one brought an unexpected result at the end. Asif literally took away the match from Kings within just a few overs!

I was right about Islamabad United but not sure what is going on with Quetta Gladiators? They have lost their 2nd match if I am not wrong and it's a consecutive lose.

Anyway, Qalandars are betting now against Karachi Kings. I am expecting them Qalandars to win this too.

Quetta Gladiators are losing there momentum here which is not good for them. They should focus more in the dept matches of the tournament.
For the current match, the Lahore Qalandars are not doing well and are at 97-4 in 15.3  overs. If Karachi bats well, then Qalandars will have to face another loss.

So they were able to score 133 runs altogether. Not a good score to defend however it will be interesting to see how Karachi Kings plan? Sometimes low scoring matches turns out to be the best entertaining match.

My good wishes for Lahore Qalandars.

Karachi Kings is probably going to win this one. They require just 52 runs off 48 balls right now and have 7 wickets remaining.

This is one of the very few low-scoring matches of this tournament - most of the matches of PSL have managed to cross 150+ runs in the first inning. T20s are meant to be high-scoring, IMO.

Yh seems like as the days are going the PSL matches are becoming unpredictable. I thought Lahore Qalandars were better team but seeing the performance by Karachi Kings it seems they will win this match.

Karachi Kings require another 47 runs with 6 wickets and 35 balls remaining?

Look at this
https://i.imgur.com/NlfrjlB.png

Last over 4 wickets by Wahab Riaz.

Islamabad United could score 200+ runs if they would not lose these wickets in the last few overs. My bet is for Peshawar Zalmi in this match despite Islamabad scored 176 runs.

Karachi Kings won this match however there a moment near the 10th over or so, then Lahore was doing good bowling and restricting the karachi. The Lahore score was quite low and it was difficult to defend such a small score in T20 on the batting wickets of Dubai.

Yh that's old news
What do you think about the match is running now?
Peshawar Zalmi require another 56 runs with 5 wickets and 36 balls remaining. I predicted Peshawar to win. Looking at the score they should win the match.

Are you going to lose again? That's sad. Peshawar Zalmi seems to be lost this match. They need 56 runs from 36 balls with 5 wickets remaining. If they lose a wicket now, it will not be their day anymore, IMO.

The match is still 50/50 and I feel like Peshawar will win. Dawson needs to hit. 29 balls left and need to score 49 runs. Islamabad are fielding very well in this stage. Just saved a four.

Peshawar Zalmi needs 36 runs from 18 balls, they still have 5 wickets. Now that I think PZ may win since they didn't lose a wicket earlier but it still is not sure. Yeah, it's 50/50.

Sammy is wasting balls I think. He needs to hit it hard with an open eye. Peshawar Zalmi needs from 18 from 7 balls. It seems the match is going to Islamabad United's side.

Now that it requires 14 runs from last over, I will blame Sammy if they lose the match. Anyway, I think it's easy for Peshawar to win. 14 runs is not a big one when there is two set batsman in the field.

And Peshawar won. Last ball needed 4 runs and Dawson did not miss it. A great win by Peshawar. Sammy was making the job hard after the run out but again Sammi helped to win when he scored 6 in the 3rd ball. Anyway, it's part of the game.

Congrats Peshawar Zalmi.

Yeah, Peshawar Zalmi won. I have seen too. The match was indeed a good one. Although it was easy for Peshawar and they made it harder. Anyway, congrats on your win. I would lose if I bet today.

Peshawar Zalmi were almost losing this match until the last few overs which really made the difference by their excellent batting. Now we have two days rest and then we see the action from Abu Dhabi from Monday.

The battle for the last four qualification is getting tougher and tougher.  :)

I think we have already 3 out of 4 for qualifiers now just need to decide from Lahore and Karachi other 3 already in and Multan is already out.

Guys two match today.

Peshawar Zalmi vs Quetta Gladiators
and
Karachi Kings vs Multan

My picks are: Quetta Gladiators and Multan

Opinions?

Quetta Gladiators just had a very easy match. Shane Watson 91 runs from only 55 balls and Ahmed Shehzad's 50 gave the easy win for Quetta. Next match Karachi Kings vs Multan Sultans. Multan is already out from the tournament however my pick for this match will be Multan.

What do you think?

I am also going for Multan because now they are playing only for pride so they can give very tough time to Kings as they are also hungry for win and stay in this league.

Multan is not totally out of the tournament now. They still have the chance provided that Multan wins the next two matches and Lahore loses its last two matches. It is difficult to happen but then nothing is impossible in cricket.

@Usman Shinwari is on target for Kings just 7 balls and 2 wickets look like Multan players mentally out of this league body language is also not good and Kings also in attacking mood as they still have chance for qualifiers.

I am not sure what Malik is doing. Whats the point to score a 50 wasting 75+ balls (hypothetically)? It's a T20 and the power play was just wasted. They scored 36 runs by losing 2 wickets. Shame.

Hah, yes, I totally agree with you. Shoaib Malik played an awfully slow inning yet again in this match, just like he did in previous matches of this tournament. This behavior of the Sultans captain is the reason why the team is at the bottom in the ranking right now, simply awful.

Sultans are done with about 17 overs and have succeeded in scoring a mere hundred till now. Kings are probably going to win this one!

I was expecting better game from Sultans but Shoaib's strategy is questionable here. I have seen in other match he did the same thing. The team scored around 93 runs in 10 or 11 over I think then he came and played a very slow game that in the next 5/6 overs they did not score significant run.

I think Shoaib was a bad choice for Multan.

What is happening Cricket world?

Two match today:


Lahore Qalandars vs Peshawar Zalmi and my pick is Peshawar Zalmi. They lost yesterday and I do not think they will let it happen today.

Islamabad United vs Quetta Gladiators and my pick is always Quetta Gladiators. For some reason I found them the tournament winning team.

I hope they do not disappoint.

I would say it was bad luck for Peshawar Zalmi yesterday. They have good batsman, bowlers but combination was not good. They start a slow match, Fletcher played 28 balls and scored only 26 runs. It should not be the nature of a top order batsman from any angle. Kamran Akmol played good. If Fletcher played quite faster, things may be different. They had good batsman behind. Pollard did a great knock though.

Well I would give credit to Shane Watson for his unbeaten 91 runs. He was very calm to hit the balls. The way he batted even if Zalmi would scored 190+ still I would think that Quetta Gladiators would win.

However Zalmi could add more runs they they were extra careful to run scoring.

When it's about chasing a big score, players get pressure and most of the times failed because they need to hit at a row. Watson played greatly but it would be done someone else if he didn't because the score was not too much.

Oh dear Zalmi right now down and out Qalanders doing very good job 12/4 for Zalmi is never been accepted its very good job by Qalanders bowlers specially by Afridi this teenager is rocking.

Come on!
I just checked the score. It's an easy target for Zalmi but what are they doing? Making an easy game hard? In papers Zalmi is better team too. My good wishes for Zalmi.

Multan sultans are finally out of the tournament. Their team did not play this tournament well although they had some very good players in their team.

Currently Peshawar are looking to win against Lahore as they need 44 Runs from 27 balls with 5 wickets still in hand. Another loss of Lahore will make it extreme difficult for them to qualify.

My both prediction for yesterday was correct :-)


I will blame Shoaib Malik for this. May be it's time for Multan sultans to find an aggressive captain to perform better in the next season.

After Multan, it seems today will be the end of Lahore also. Islamabad score a massive 238 making it impossible for Lahore to chase this huge total.
Although the boundary is small in Karachi stadium, yet the pressure of 238 will enough for Islamabad to secure their position in top 4.
I am hoping to see a singled sided game in 2nd half.

84 runs, 4 wickets gone after 8.3 overs.

This is what happen when you are under pressure with tons of runs to chase. 238 runs is a lot to chase. Unfortunate Lahore. This season was not good for them.

Well as expected, Lahore was defeated comprehensively in this match and they had no chance to chase the all time high total of PSL. Still Lahore has one last chance if Karachi lose today against Quetta and Lahore win in their last match against Multan. However i think it is very unlikely to happen.

Cricket world is full of matches today :-)
Afghanistan vs Ireland ODI
South Africa vs Sri Lanka ODI
India vs Australia ODI
West Indies vs England ODI
Bangladesh vs New Zealand Test Match

and
Karachi Kings vs Quetta Gladiators
My pick is Quetta for today.

That's what we call a jam pack Sunday.  My Picks South Africa and India to be the winners from these. Although i do wish my team Aussie could play well against India but Aussie had a treble start in this game.   >:(

It is full packed LOL

Australia is not looking very good so far. They lost two wickets in under 5 overs and run is only 17 runs. They will need a very good partnership if they want to find something from this match. In modern cricket this is not impossible target by the way.

Lahore is playing its last pool match with Multan today. Does Lahore have any outside chance of qualifying for the last four if they beat Multan in this match comprehensively ? 

Also Karachi will play later today their last match with Peshawar today, Karachi however grabbed a lucky win yesterday as they were able to defend 5 runs in the last over.

When PSL started i wished for Lahore to win PSL final, but it is bad luck for Lahore team that they have potential to win it. Now i really dis-pointed about Lahore team, even i don't think so that today Lahore will win the match from Multan.
Today match is showing that Lahore is under pressure.

This is the first time I am following PSL so closely. I did not have much idea about any teams but after watching few matches I felt for QUETTA GLADIATORS. I think they will with the trophy this year.

Anyway, between Karachi Kings and Peshawar Zalmi today. I will go with Peshawar Zalmi to win. :-)

Peshawar Zalmi are near to 200 score and it will not be easy to karachi to chase this. The result of this match does not matter in the context of the tournament.  The knockout stage of the tournament will decide weather Quetta will be able to win this year PSL.

I hope Quetta wins the trophy. That's my team :-)

Anyway, Karachi Kings already lost 5 wickets to score 106 runs after 12 overs. 5 wickets in hand and 8 overs left. Too hard job for them.

Eliminator 1

Karachi Kings vs Islamabad United and KKs are looking in good shape. Run rate is 11.37 after 8 overs. They won the toss and elected to bat first in this betting pitch.

Who is you pick? I go for Islamabad United although they need some wickets to come back to this match.

Kings lost - once again the same three teams in the second qualifiers and finals. The names "Karachi" and "Lahore" attract the crowd, not having any of these two teams at this stage of PSL yet again is actually a failure of PSL.

I hope Quetta wins this PSL - they usually reach the finals of the tournament but then lose in the very end.

I am supporting Quetta from the beginning, I hope you remember. I would be happy to see then to win the trophy. In the final I am going to back them up :-)

Karachi kings started very well in this Eliminator 1 and the later order batsmen were unable to take the advantage of the early good start. Islamabad is a much better composed team and they showed this in this match.
Eliminator 2 between Peshawar and Islamabad will be a thriller and i am not sure if you cannot predict 100% of who will win this one.

My pick is Peshawar Zalmi although the winner can be anyone. I would like to see the final between Peshawar Zalmi Vs Quetta Gladiators. From the starting my team was Quetta :-)

Peshawar Zalmi has won the 2nd eliminator and now they will be in the finals with Quetta (As you predicted :))  The final will be really great as the two best teams will compete for this year PSL trophee.
I will Pick Peshawar to be the winner as Quetta has a bad reputation of missing out in the big matches.

Peshwar Zalmi has better bowling attack then Quetta, on ther hand, Quetta has stronger batsman than Peshwar. It will be an interesting one. Both of the team are strong.
Quetta has beat Peshwar in all three matches in this tournament. So, I think Quetta will win this time too. Let's see what happen.

Final day of PSL.
Quetta Gladiators vs Peshawar Zalmi, the final match.

Quetta was my favourite team since I started to follow this years PSL and I was expecting them to win the tournament. This is their best chance and I hope they lift the trophy.

My money is in for Quetta.

We'll get to see the finals of the tournament after 3 hours. I think that Gladiators are highly dependant on Shane Watson, Umar Akmal, and Ahmed Shahzad, while the Zalmis are counting on Kamran Akmal, Imam-ul-Haq, and Hassan Ali. I seriously hope that Sarfaraz wins this one, as:

I too think that Quetta will make it this PSL. They have some good players and were able to prove that they deserve the trophy. I am also going with Quetta.

I remember you said this earlier and I did not have much idea about PSL. You helped me a lot to get to know with this team. Then I started following their matches. I noticed some extra ordinary performance from Gladiators which triggered me to become their fan.

I really really wish they win.

Gladiators won the toss and chose to field first; so far so good.

I'd love to see Sarfaraz winning this one too! He deserves it.

After first over they are also looking good. 2 runs without losing any wicket. Both Kamran Akmal and Imam-ul-Haq are inform batsman. Gladiators needs them as quick as they can.

Both of the inform batsmen (Imam-ul-Haq & Kamran Akmal ) are gone and now its the first time the Peshawar Zalmi middle and lower order batsmen will be tested.



Are you really betting on them with real money ?

Yes I did risk 0.005BTC for Quetta when the odd was 1.70
This will give me 0.00850 in return.

https://i.imgur.com/yP9qbZj.png

After restricting Zalmi by 138 I can really hope that Quetta will win the trophy today.

Let's make a noise for Quetta :-)

Oh WOW! What betting platform is that? Looks neat!

It's sportsbet.
I happy with two things.

- Gladiators are very comfortable so far. Easily hitting the balls
- My bet is going to win for sure (although in cricket anything can happen) :-)

It should an easy win for Quetta. 138 can easily be chased. After 2 overs, Quetta scored 14 runs. They still have a lot of batsman. If this time Quetta failed to chase it, it will be unlucky.

Watson is gone, run out. It hurts the most a batsman, a supporter. After 4 overs, score is now 30 for 1. That's sad. I thought Watson will make it today. Bad luck.

I'd not blame Shane Watson for that; Ahmed Shahzad shouldn't have dared to take that run. It was totally unnecessary.


I've heard a lot about it but witnessing its interface for the first time. Looks good!

I also think that Quetta should win this one easily as less than 50 runs are needed now with 8 wickets in hand. If they lose from here than it will be a pure bad luck. Seeing the current performance of Quetta in this season, and in this match they deserve to be the winner of PSL 4.0.

26 more runs required to win with 8 wickets remaining and 5.4 overs. Ahmed Shehzad played a vital role today. It's now wait for the time to celebrate by Quetta. It's becoming more easier.

And... Finally Quetta Gladiators won the match. They are celebrating it. Soon they will lift the trophy for the first time. It was a very easy win. I am happy for them.

Congratulations Quetta Gladiators. They deserved it.

True but it was not a final which a final mmatch should be. It was too easy win for Quetta, no chance for Peshwar. It would be quite different. However, at last Quetta turned the impossible to possible.

A win is a Win. If the opposite team does not play well on the day, it does  not mean that the final match is not a final. Its just that Quetta was too good a team on that day that they did not give any chance to their opponent to compete.

This was one of the best and memorable PSL.

https://i.imgur.com/125QBhq.png

It's true that Quetta made it easy for them. Peshwar failed to produce a fighting score. 138 was very small rum for this wicket. It was a betting pitch after all. So Quetta did not have much hard time to chase it.

What I understood from the speakers that in the other PSLs Quetta did not have their full strength but this season they had they entire army.

The team of PSL 2019 released; however, surprisingly, instead of Sarfaraz, they've chosen AB de Villiers as the captain of the team. AB played only 3 matches in the whole tournament and out of those 3 matches, he lost a couple of times.

BAD DECISION!

AB de Villiers named captain of Team PSL 2019

https://www.thenews.com.pk/latest/445586-ab-de-villiers-named-captain-of-team-psl-2019

The most decisions by PSL management are not on merit these are mostly on personal like and dislikes I am not surprised with this news because they can do any announcement. 

I don't think that there's going to be any futher update in this thread, so I'm locking it.


I agree.