Pakistan Super League teams : Average age and further analysis

[Abdullah719]

Based on a request from [MENTION=141510]Sports_Psychologist[/MENTION] and some squabbling in other threads about which teams had older players, etc., I've compiled a list of all players in each PSL team and their (official ) ages, average age of each team and number of players in specified age 'categories'.

[table= class:grid][tr][td]Islamabad United[/td][td]Age[/td][td]Karachi Kings[/td][td]Age[/td][td]Lahore Qalandars[/td][td]Age[/td][td]Peshawar Zalmi[/td][td]Age[/td][td]Quetta Gladiators[/td][td]Age[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Misbah-ul-Haq[/td][td]42[/td][td]Chris Gayle[/td][td]37[/td][td]Brendon McCullum[/td][td]35[/td][td]Shahid Afridi[/td][td]36[/td][td]Kevin Pietersen[/td][td]36[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Shane Watson[/td][td]35[/td][td]Kieron Pollard[/td][td]29[/td][td]Sunil Narine[/td][td]28[/td][td]Eoin Morgan[/td][td]30[/td][td]Sarfraz Ahmed[/td][td]29[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Steven Finn[/td][td]27[/td][td]Shoaib Malik[/td][td]35[/td][td]Umar Akmal[/td][td]26[/td][td]Wahab Riaz[/td][td]31[/td][td]Ahmed Shehzad[/td][td]25[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Sharjeel Khan[/td][td]27[/td][td]Mohammad Amir[/td][td]24[/td][td]Sohail Tanvir[/td][td]32[/td][td]Tillakaratne Dilshan[/td][td]40[/td][td]Mahmudullah[/td][td]30[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Mohammad Irfan[/td][td]34[/td][td]Ravi Bopara[/td][td]31[/td][td]Jason Roy[/td][td]26[/td][td]Darren Sammy[/td][td]33[/td][td]Luke Wright[/td][td]31[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Samuel Badree[/td][td]35[/td][td]Kumar Sangakkara[/td][td]39[/td][td]Yasir Shah[/td][td]30[/td][td]Mohammad Hafeez[/td][td]36[/td][td]Anwar Ali[/td][td]29[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Mohammad Sami[/td][td]35[/td][td]Imad Wasim[/td][td]28[/td][td]James Franklin[/td][td]36[/td][td]Chris Jordan[/td][td]28[/td][td]Tymal Mills[/td][td]24[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Khalid Latif[/td][td]31[/td][td]Babar Azam[/td][td]22[/td][td]Mohammad Rizwan[/td][td]24[/td][td]Tamim Iqbal[/td][td]27[/td][td]Umar Gul[/td][td]32[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Brad Haddin[/td][td]39[/td][td]Ryan Mclaren[/td][td]33[/td][td]Cameron Delport[/td][td]27[/td][td]Kamran Akmal[/td][td]35[/td][td]Zulfiqar Babar[/td][td]38[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Sam Billings[/td][td]25[/td][td]Sohail Khan[/td][td]32[/td][td]Azhar Ali[/td][td]31[/td][td]Sohaib Maqsood[/td][td]29[/td][td]Rilee Rossouw[/td][td]27[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Saeed Ajmal[/td][td]39[/td][td]Shahzaib Hasan[/td][td]27[/td][td]Aamer Yamin[/td][td]26[/td][td]Junaid Khan[/td][td]27[/td][td]Mohammad Nawaz[/td][td]22[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Asif Ali[/td][td]25[/td][td]Saifullah Bangash[/td][td]21[/td][td]Zafar Gohar[/td][td]22[/td][td]Imran Khan Jr.[/td][td]28[/td][td]Asad Shafiq[/td][td]31[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Rumman Raees[/td][td]25[/td][td]Khurram Manzoor[/td][td]30[/td][td]Fakhar Zaman[/td][td]26[/td][td]Iftikhar Ahmed[/td][td]26[/td][td]Saad Nasim[/td][td]26[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Imran Khalid[/td][td]34[/td][td]Kashif Bhatti[/td][td]30[/td][td]Bilawal Bhatti[/td][td]25[/td][td]Haris Sohail[/td][td]28[/td][td]Umar Amin[/td][td]27[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Amad Butt[/td][td]21[/td][td]Abrar Ahmed[/td][td]18[/td][td]Ghulam Mudassar[/td][td]17[/td][td]Hasan Ali[/td][td]22[/td][td]Hasan Khan[/td][td]18[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Hussain Talat[/td][td]20[/td][td]Hasan Mohsin[/td][td]19[/td][td]Usman Qadir[/td][td]23[/td][td]Mohammad Asghar[/td][td]18[/td][td]Noor Wali[/td][td]20[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Dwayne Smith[/td][td]33[/td][td]Mahela Jayawardene[/td][td]39[/td][td]Grant Elliott[/td][td]37[/td][td]Marlon Samuels[/td][td]35[/td][td]Nathan McCullum[/td][td]36[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Ben Duckett[/td][td]22[/td][td]Usama Mir[/td][td]21[/td][td]Chris Green[/td][td]23[/td][td]Andre Fletcher[/td][td]29[/td][td]Thisara Perera[/td][td]27[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Shadab Khan [/td][td]18[/td][td]Rahat Ali[/td][td]28[/td][td]Saif Badar[/td][td]18[/td][td]Mohammad Irfan Khan[/td][td]27[/td][td]Bismillah Khan[/td][td]26[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Zohaib Khan[/td][td]32[/td][td]Aamad Alam[/td][td]18[/td][td]Mohammad Irfan[/td][td]21[/td][td]Khushdil Shah[/td][td]21[/td][td]Mir Hamza[/td][td]24[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Syed Muzammil Shah[/td][td]18[/td][td][/td][td][/td][td][/td][td][/td][td]Samit Patel[/td][td]32[/td][td][/td][td][/td][/tr]
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[tr][td]Islamabad United[/td][td][/td][td]Karachi Kings[/td][td][/td][td]Lahore Qalandars[/td][td][/td][td]Peshawar Zalmi[/td][td][/td][td]Quetta Gladiators[/td][td][/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Average age[/td][td]29.4[/td][td][/td][td]28.1[/td][td][/td][td]26.7[/td][td][/td][td]29.4[/td][td][/td][td]27.9[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Under-23[/td][td]5[/td][td][/td][td]6[/td][td][/td][td]6[/td][td][/td][td]3[/td][td][/td][td]3[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]24-29[/td][td]5[/td][td][/td][td]5[/td][td][/td][td]8[/td][td][/td][td]9[/td][td][/td][td]10[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]30-34[/td][td]5[/td][td][/td][td]5[/td][td][/td][td]3[/td][td][/td][td]4[/td][td][/td][td]4[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]35+[/td][td]6[/td][td][/td][td]4[/td][td][/td][td]3[/td][td][/td][td]5[/td][td][/td][td]3[/td][/tr][/table]

 

[marlonbrowndo]

Good job. Islamabad United full of oldies

 

[Syed1]

The Peshawar Zalmi average age is a shocker.

 

[Abdul]

The Peshawar Zalmi average age is a shocker.

Karachi aren't that far behind though.

 

[Rayyman]

Peshawar is way too old. Islamabad would be younger if it wasn't for Misbah who makes the average higher.

 

[Abdullah719]

The Peshawar Zalmi average age is a shocker.

Peshawar is way too old. Islamabad would be younger if it wasn't for Misbah who makes the average higher.

Peshawar's average age is mainly on the higher side as they have a lot of players in the 27-33 range which isn't all that bad.

Islamabad have three over 39 but they have a couple of youngsters so that balances it out while PZ have only one over 36 (officially).

Islamabad is the oldest team for sure, they have 8 players over 34. Hopefully the young players like Amad Butt, Hussain Talat and Shadab Khan get more chances this time around.

 

[Hasan123]

As I said before only Lahore seem to be doing a good job of promoting young talent. Karachi and Zalmi exposed here.

 

[Rayyman]

Islamabad is too old. Karachi is fine, but captain should be younger. Same with Lahore. No need to have oldies as leaders (Sanga and Baz).

 

[MMHS]

Every team is over aged by at least 3 years - even if I take official age on face value.

These ages are normalized because teams are forced to pick couple of U19 players, which is pulling it down. Take out the youngster & make a tentative starting XII within the squad - I am sure every team's starting XII will be over 30 officially, in a young men's game.

Also, these franchise games need few established international faces - Sanga, KP, Gayle, Watto. They are in their late 30s, which is pulling the average up. Take out every foreigner & make a tentative all PAK XII - ideally it should be U25 then, because that's what this game demands & that's the way it can benifit the bigger plot. I think, still it'll be close to or over 30 officially, which is not only obnoxious, rather scary.

 

[Syed1]

Every team is over aged by at least 3 years - even if I take official age on face value.

These ages are normalized because teams are forced to pick couple of U19 players, which is pulling it down. Take out the youngster & make a tentative starting XII within the squad - I am sure every team's starting XII will be over 30 officially, in a young men's game.

Also, these franchise games need few established international faces - Sanga, KP, Gayle, Watto. They are in their late 30s, which is pulling the average up. Take out every foreigner & make a tentative all PAK XII - ideally it should be U25 then, because that's what this game demands & that's the way it can benifit the bigger plot. I think, still it'll be close to or over 30 officially, which is not only obnoxious, rather scary.

You have to find a happy medium. No body would watch it if a bunch of u19 kids are playing. You need established names as well, but yes you are right old players need to be removed from young man's game specially those that have even crossed the 40 barrier.

 

[Sports_Psychologist]

Based on a request from [MENTION=141510]Sports_Psychologist[/MENTION] and some squabbling in other threads about which teams had older players, etc., I've compiled a list of all players in each PSL team and their (official ) ages, average age of each team and number of players in specified age 'categories'.

[table= class:grid][tr][td]Islamabad United[/td][td]Age[/td][td]Karachi Kings[/td][td]Age[/td][td]Lahore Qalandars[/td][td]Age[/td][td]Peshawar Zalmi[/td][td]Age[/td][td]Quetta Gladiators[/td][td]Age[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Misbah-ul-Haq[/td][td]42[/td][td]Chris Gayle[/td][td]37[/td][td]Brendon McCullum[/td][td]35[/td][td]Shahid Afridi[/td][td]36[/td][td]Kevin Pietersen[/td][td]36[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Shane Watson[/td][td]35[/td][td]Kieron Pollard[/td][td]29[/td][td]Sunil Narine[/td][td]28[/td][td]Eoin Morgan[/td][td]30[/td][td]Sarfraz Ahmed[/td][td]29[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Steven Finn[/td][td]27[/td][td]Shoaib Malik[/td][td]35[/td][td]Umar Akmal[/td][td]26[/td][td]Wahab Riaz[/td][td]31[/td][td]Ahmed Shehzad[/td][td]25[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Sharjeel Khan[/td][td]27[/td][td]Mohammad Amir[/td][td]24[/td][td]Sohail Tanvir[/td][td]32[/td][td]Tillakaratne Dilshan[/td][td]40[/td][td]Mahmudullah[/td][td]30[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Mohammad Irfan[/td][td]34[/td][td]Ravi Bopara[/td][td]31[/td][td]Jason Roy[/td][td]26[/td][td]Darren Sammy[/td][td]33[/td][td]Luke Wright[/td][td]31[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Samuel Badree[/td][td]35[/td][td]Kumar Sangakkara[/td][td]39[/td][td]Yasir Shah[/td][td]30[/td][td]Mohammad Hafeez[/td][td]36[/td][td]Anwar Ali[/td][td]29[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Mohammad Sami[/td][td]35[/td][td]Imad Wasim[/td][td]28[/td][td]James Franklin[/td][td]36[/td][td]Chris Jordan[/td][td]28[/td][td]Tymal Mills[/td][td]24[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Khalid Latif[/td][td]31[/td][td]Babar Azam[/td][td]22[/td][td]Mohammad Rizwan[/td][td]24[/td][td]Tamim Iqbal[/td][td]27[/td][td]Umar Gul[/td][td]32[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Brad Haddin[/td][td]39[/td][td]Ryan Mclaren[/td][td]33[/td][td]Cameron Delport[/td][td]27[/td][td]Kamran Akmal[/td][td]35[/td][td]Zulfiqar Babar[/td][td]38[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Sam Billings[/td][td]25[/td][td]Sohail Khan[/td][td]32[/td][td]Azhar Ali[/td][td]31[/td][td]Sohaib Maqsood[/td][td]29[/td][td]Rilee Rossouw[/td][td]27[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Saeed Ajmal[/td][td]39[/td][td]Shahzaib Hasan[/td][td]27[/td][td]Aamer Yamin[/td][td]26[/td][td]Junaid Khan[/td][td]27[/td][td]Mohammad Nawaz[/td][td]22[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Asif Ali[/td][td]25[/td][td]Saifullah Bangash[/td][td]21[/td][td]Zafar Gohar[/td][td]22[/td][td]Imran Khan Jr.[/td][td]28[/td][td]Asad Shafiq[/td][td]31[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Rumman Raees[/td][td]25[/td][td]Khurram Manzoor[/td][td]30[/td][td]Fakhar Zaman[/td][td]26[/td][td]Iftikhar Ahmed[/td][td]26[/td][td]Saad Nasim[/td][td]26[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Imran Khalid[/td][td]34[/td][td]Kashif Bhatti[/td][td]30[/td][td]Bilawal Bhatti[/td][td]25[/td][td]Haris Sohail[/td][td]28[/td][td]Umar Amin[/td][td]27[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Amad Butt[/td][td]21[/td][td]Abrar Ahmed[/td][td]18[/td][td]Ghulam Mudassar[/td][td]17[/td][td]Hasan Ali[/td][td]22[/td][td]Hasan Khan[/td][td]18[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Hussain Talat[/td][td]20[/td][td]Hasan Mohsin[/td][td]19[/td][td]Usman Qadir[/td][td]23[/td][td]Mohammad Asghar[/td][td]18[/td][td]Noor Wali[/td][td]20[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Dwayne Smith[/td][td]33[/td][td]Mahela Jayawardene[/td][td]39[/td][td]Grant Elliott[/td][td]37[/td][td]Marlon Samuels[/td][td]35[/td][td]Nathan McCullum[/td][td]36[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Ben Duckett[/td][td]22[/td][td]Usama Mir[/td][td]21[/td][td]Chris Green[/td][td]23[/td][td]Andre Fletcher[/td][td]29[/td][td]Thisara Perera[/td][td]27[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Shadab Khan [/td][td]18[/td][td]Rahat Ali[/td][td]28[/td][td]Saif Badar[/td][td]18[/td][td]Mohammad Irfan Khan[/td][td]27[/td][td]Bismillah Khan[/td][td]26[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Zohaib Khan[/td][td]32[/td][td]Aamad Alam[/td][td]18[/td][td]Mohammad Irfan[/td][td]21[/td][td]Khushdil Shah[/td][td]21[/td][td]Mir Hamza[/td][td]24[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Syed Muzammil Shah[/td][td]18[/td][td][/td][td][/td][td][/td][td][/td][td]Samit Patel[/td][td]32[/td][td][/td][td][/td][/tr]
[tr][td][/td][td][/td][td][/td][td][/td][td][/td][td][/td][td][/td][td][/td][td][/td][td][/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Islamabad United[/td][td][/td][td]Karachi Kings[/td][td][/td][td]Lahore Qalandars[/td][td][/td][td]Peshawar Zalmi[/td][td][/td][td]Quetta Gladiators[/td][td][/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Average age[/td][td]29.4[/td][td][/td][td]28.1[/td][td][/td][td]26.7[/td][td][/td][td]29.4[/td][td][/td][td]27.9[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Under-23[/td][td]5[/td][td][/td][td]6[/td][td][/td][td]6[/td][td][/td][td]3[/td][td][/td][td]3[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]24-29[/td][td]5[/td][td][/td][td]5[/td][td][/td][td]8[/td][td][/td][td]9[/td][td][/td][td]10[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]30-34[/td][td]5[/td][td][/td][td]5[/td][td][/td][td]3[/td][td][/td][td]4[/td][td][/td][td]4[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]35+[/td][td]6[/td][td][/td][td]4[/td][td][/td][td]3[/td][td][/td][td]5[/td][td][/td][td]3[/td][/tr][/table]

Thanks Man..
Great to see Lahore Qalandars investing on youngsters and Quetta too..
Zalmi and Islamabad consisting way too older players...
This league should focus on mentoring younger players so that our local players can improve..

 

[MMHS]

You have to find a happy medium. No body would watch it if a bunch of u19 kids are playing. You need established names as well, but yes you are right old players need to be removed from young man's game specially those that have even crossed the 40 barrier.

Franchise/club sports doesn't work that way - the emotion is attached with city/brand. I spent online £75 + postage to buy a Suarez shirt, now I might do the same for Mane - though the players are not really at same level - BUT key is, they were/are both Liverpool star player.

I can categorically say that instead of PAK's established players like Misbah, Azhar/Asad/MoHa/Malik/Latif if Saud Shakil or Saad Ali or Zeeshan Malik or Babar Azam starts at key roles of every team - it won't mater much - people will come to see Lahore taking on Karachi - not Wahab or Amir bowling to Misbah or Umar or Sharjeel. They'll find their new hero as long as someone is performing.