The imminent ninth edition of the Pakistan Super League (PSL) is set to kick off next month, with Lahore Qalandars aiming to defend their title. The tournament is scheduled to run from February 17 to March 17, 2024, across various cities, including Karachi, Lahore, Rawalpindi, and Multan.
The match distribution among these cities is as follows: Karachi will host 11 matches, Lahore and Rawalpindi will each host 9 games, and Multan will witness five matches. The tentative schedule for PSL 9, according to a local cricket website, is as follows:
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– Feb 17: Qalandars vs United in Lahore
– Feb 18: Gladiators vs Zalmi in Lahore and Sultans vs Kings in Multan
– Feb 19: Qalandars vs Gladiators in Lahore
– Feb 20: Sultans vs United in Multan
– Feb 21: Zalmi vs Kings in Lahore and Sultans vs Qalandars in Multan
– Feb 22: Gladiators vs United in Lahore
– Feb 23: Sultans vs Zalmi in Multan
– Feb 24: Qalandars vs Kings in Lahore
– Feb 25: Sultans vs Gladiators in Multan and Qalandars vs Zalmi in Lahore
– Feb 26: Zalmi vs United in Lahore
– Feb 27: Qalandars vs Sultans in Lahore
– Feb 28: Kings vs United in Karachi
– Feb 29: Rest day
– Mar 1: Zalmi vs Qalandars and United vs Gladiators in Pindi
– Mar 2: Kings vs Sultans in Karachi
– Mar 3: United vs Zalmi in Pindi
– Mar 4: Kings vs Gladiators in Karachi
– Mar 5: Zalmi vs Sultans in Pindi
– Mar 6: United vs Qalandars and Gladiators vs Kings in Pindi
– Mar 7: United vs Kings in Pindi
– Mar 8: Zalmi vs Gladiators in Pindi
– Mar 9: Kings vs Qalandars in Karachi
– Mar 10: United vs Sultans and Gladiators vs Qalandars in Pindi
– Mar 11: Kings vs Zalmi in Karachi
– Mar 12: Gladiators vs Sultans in Karachi
– Mar 13: Rest day
– Mar 14: Qualifier (Team 1 vs Team 2) and Eliminator 1 (Team 3 vs Team 4) in Karachi
– Mar 15: Eliminator 2 (Eliminator winner vs Qualifier runner-up) in Karachi
– Mar 16: Rest day
– Mar 17: Final in Karachi
The finalized squads for the PSL teams are as follows:
Islamabad United: Jordan Cox, Naseem Shah, Shadab Khan, Tymal Mills, Azam Khan, Imad Wasim, Faheem Ashraf, Alex Hales, Colin Munro, Matthew Forde, Salman Ali Agha, Qasim Akram, Shahab Khan, Rumman Raees, Hunain Shah, Ubaid Shah, Shamyl Hussain, and Tom Curran.
Peshawar Zalmi: Babar Azam, Noor Ahmed, Rovman Powell, Asif Ali, Saim Ayub, Tom Kohler-Cadmore, Naveen-ul-Haq, Aamer Jamal, Mohammad Haris, Salman Irshad, Arif Yaqoob, Umair Afridi, Daniel Mousley, Khurram Shahzad, Haseebullah Khan, Mohammad Zeeshan, Lungi Ngidi, and Mehran Mumtaz.
Karachi Kings: Kieron Pollard, Daniel Sams, Mohammad Nawaz, Tim Siefert, James Vince, Hasan Ali, Shan Masood, Shoaib Malik, Tabraiz Shamis, Mohammad Amir Khan, Anwar Ali, Arafat Minhas, Mir Hamza, Muhammad Akhlaq, Muhammad Irfan Niazi, Sirajuddin, Saad Baig, and Jamie Overton.
Lahore Qalandars: Fakhar Zaman, Rassie Van der Dussen, Shaheen Afridi, Sahibzada Farhan, Haris Rauf, David Wiese, Sikandar Raza, Abdullah Shafique, Zaman Khan, Imran Jr, Ahsan Hafeez Bhatti, Dan Lawrence, Mirza Tahir Baig, Rashid Khan, Syed Faridoun Mahmood, Jahandad Khan, Shai Hope, and Kamran Ghulam.
Multan Sultans: Mohammad Rizwan, David Willey, Iftikhar
