2019 Quetta Gladiators season

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

Quetta Gladiators
2019 season
CoachMoin Khan
CaptainSarfraz Ahmed
PSL 2019Champions[1][2]
Most runsShane Watson (430)[3]
Most wicketsSohail 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
  • Players with international caps are listed in bold.
  • Ages are given as of the first match of the season, 14 February 2019
No. Name Nationality Birth date Batting style Bowlling style Year signed Notes
Batsmen
04 Rilee Rossouw  South Africa (1989-10-09)9 October 1989 (aged 29) Left-handed Right-arm off break 2019 Overseas
05 Saud Shakeel  Pakistan (1995-09-05)5 September 1995 (aged 23) Left-handed Left-arm orthodox 2019
19 Ahmed Shehzad  Pakistan (1991-11-23)23 November 1991 (aged 27) Right-handed Right-arm leg break 2018
23 Ahsan Ali  Pakistan (1993-12-10)10 December 1993 (aged 25) Right-handed Right-arm leg break 2019
All-rounders
21 Mohammad Nawaz  Pakistan (1994-03-21)21 March 1994 (aged 24) Right-handed Slow left-arm orthodox 2018
033 Sohail Tanvir  Pakistan (1984-12-12)12 December 1984 (aged 34) Left-handed Left-arm medium fast 2018
33 Shane Watson  Australia (1981-06-17)17 June 1981 (aged 37) Right-handed Right-arm fast medium 2018 Overseas
47 Dwayne Bravo  West Indies (1983-10-07)7 October 1983 (aged 35) Right-handed Right-arm medium fast 2019 Overseas
48 Anwar Ali  Pakistan (1987-11-25)25 November 1987 (aged 31) Right-handed Right-arm fast-medium 2018
814 Dwayne Smith  West Indies (1983-04-12)12 April 1983 (aged 35) Right-handed Right-arm medium 2019 Overseas
18 Danish Aziz  Pakistan (1995-11-20)20 November 1995 (aged 23) Left-handed Slow left-arm orthodox 2019
74 Sunil Narine  West Indies (1988-05-26)26 May 1988 (aged 30) Left-handed Right-arm off-spin 2019 Overseas
Jalat Khan  Pakistan (1986-02-03)3 February 1986 (aged 33) Left-handed Slow left-arm orthodox 2019
Wicket-keepers
45 Azam Khan  Pakistan (1998-08-10)10 August 1998 (aged 20) Left-handed — 2019
54 Sarfaraz Ahmed  Pakistan (1987-05-22)22 May 1987 (aged 31) Right-handed — 2019 Captain
96 Umar Akmal  Pakistan (1990-05-26)26 May 1990 (aged 28) Right-handed Right-arm off spin 2019
Bowlers
010 Max Waller  England (1988-03-03)3 March 1988 (aged 30) Right-handed Right-arm leg break 2019 Overseas
10 Ghulam Mudassar  Pakistan (1999-09-24)24 September 1999 (aged 19) Right-handed Right-arm off break 2019
11 Harry Gurney  England (1986-10-25)25 October 1986 (aged 32) Right-handed Left-arm medium fast 2019 Overseas
17 Mohammad Asghar  Pakistan (1998-12-28)28 December 1998 (aged 20) Left-handed Slow left-arm orthodox 2019
22 Mohammad Irfan  Pakistan (1995-05-15)15 May 1995 (aged 23) Right-handed Right-arm fast 2019
20 Mohammad Hasnain  Pakistan (2000-04-05)5 April 2000 (aged 18) Right-handed Right-arm fast 2019
52 Fawad Ahmed  Australia (1982-02-05)5 February 1982 (aged 37) Right-handed Right-arm leg-break 2019 Overseas
16 Naseem Shah  Pakistan (2003-02-15)15 February 2003 (aged 15) Right-handed Right-arm fast 2019 Injured, replaced by Mohammad Hasnain.

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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]

References
  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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