Quetta Gladiators beat Karachi Kings by eight wickets

United were restricted to 128 runs with Qalandars’ Mohammad Nawaz bagging three wickets.

He clean bowled Bravo, had Zohaib Khan caught by Saifullah Bangash and trapped Cooper in front of wickets. Anwar Ali justified his captain’s name with the dismissal of Nauman Anwar in the very first over of the match whereas Lendl Simmons and James Vince struggled to propel the scoring and ultimately perished for eleven nad 30 respectively. Peshawar Zalmi, who notched their second successive victory last night, also have four points but the Gladiators nosed ahead as they have a better net run rate (+1.675) than the former (+1.356).

The Kings cruised to the target in 15.5 overs in their chase. Kevin Pietersen finished the match in style, hitting a six when scores were levelled. Qalandars kept on losing the wicket on regular intervals and could not get the partnerships going. The dismissal of both batsmen 18 runs apart by Mohammad Asghar meant Dwayne Bravo had to play a consolidating innings without going for the big shots and in the end, he could only muster 32 runs from 31 balls.

Amir was banned for five years along with Salman Bhatt and Mohammed Asif after being found guilty of spot fixing in a Test match in England.

Quetta, meanwhile, handed an eight-wicket thrashing to Islamabad United in tournament’s first match and will replace Karachi at the top if they win today.

Nabi and Anwar Ali (2-33) picked two wickets each for the Quetta Gladiators.

Next match will be played between Lahore Qalandars and Peshawar Zalmi at 21:00pst. Wright’ s magnificent batting skills managed to pull Gladiator s towards victory with remarkable ease.

Shoaib Malik-led Karachi Kings and Sarfraz Ahmad-led Quetta Gladiators will want to continue their winning streak after they will take on each other in Dubai on Saturday in the 4th T20 game of the HBL Pakistan Super League (PSL).