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Who will win the 2018 edition of the Pakistan Super League?

Who will win the 2018 edition of the Pakistan Super League?

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After looking at the squads and team combinations etc., who do you think will go on to win this year's PSL?

Abdullah719 said:
Islamabad United: Misbah-ul-Haq (c), Andre Russell, JP Duminy, Samuel Badree, Mohammad Sami, Luke Ronchi, Rumman Raees, Shadab Khan, Faheem Ashraf, Iftikhar Ahmed, Amad Butt, Asif Ali, Sam Billings, Zafar Gohar, Sahibzada Farhan, Hussain Talat, Rohail Nazir.
Supplementary: Alex Hales, David Willey, Mohammad Hasan, Mohammad Hasnain.
Cover: Asela Gunaratne for JP Duminy, Steve Finn for David Willey, Chadwick Walton for Sam Billings.


Karachi Kings: Shahid Afridi, Mohammad Amir, Colin Ingram, Imad Wasim (c), Babar Azam, Tymal Mills, Mohammad Rizwan, Ravi Bopara, Joe Denly, Usman Shinwari, Usama Mir, Khurram Manzoor, David Wiese, Tabish Khan, Mohammad Irfan jr., Hasan Mohsin, Mohammad Taha, Mushtaq Ahmed Kalhoro.
Supplementary: Lendl Simmons, Eoin Morgan, Saifullah Bangash.


Lahore Qalandars: Umar Akmal, Sunil Narine, Chris Lynn, Brendon McCullum (c), Fakhar Zaman, Mustafizur Rahman, Yasir Shah, Sohail Khan, Bilal Asif, Cameron Deport, Aamer Yamin, Bilawal Bhatti, Raza Hasan, Sohail Akhtar, Imran Khan jr., Shaheen Shah Afridi, Ghulam Mudassar, Salman Irshad.
Supplementary: Anton Devcich, Mitch McClenaghan, Gulraiz Sadaf.
Cover: Dinesh Ramdin for Mustafizur Rahman.


Multan Sultans: Shoaib Malik (c), Kieron Pollard, Imran Tahir, Kumar Sangakkara, Sohail Tanvir, Darren Bravo, Junaid Khan, Mohammad Irfan, Ahmed Shehzad, Kashif Bhatti, Irfan Khan, Sohaib Maqsood, Mohammad Abbas, Nicolas Pooran, Shan Masood, Abdullah Shafique, Saif Badar.
Supplementary: Hardus Viljoen, Umar Gul, Umar Siddiq, Ross Whiteley
Cover: Zahir Khan for Nicolas Pooran, Thisara Perera for Imran Tahir.


Peshawar Zalmi: Mohammad Hafeez, Wahab Riaz, Dwayne Bravo, Shakib al Hasan, Kamran Akmal, Tamim Iqbal, Darren Sammy (c), Hasan Ali, Hammad Azam, Haris Sohail, Chris Jordan, Mohammad Asghar, Saad Nasim, Taimoor Sultan, Sameen Gul, Ibtisam Sheikh, Khushdil Shah.
Supplementary: Andre Fletcher, Khalid Usman, Mohammad Arif.
Cover: Dwayne Smith for DJ Bravo and Tamim Iqbal, Liam Dawson for Shakib al Hasan.


Quetta Gladiators: Sarfaraz Ahmed (c), Kevin Pietersen, Shane Watson, Rilee Rossouw, Mahmudullah, Jofra Archer, Asad Shafiq, Mohammad Nawaz, Rahat Ali, Anwar Ali, Mir Hamza, Umar Amin, Rameez Raja jr., Saad Ali, Saud Shakeel, Hasan Khna, Mohammad Junaid.
Supplementary: Jason Roy, Rashid Khan, Mohammad Azam Khan, Faraz Ahmed.
Cover: John Hastings for Mahmudullah, Albie Morkel for Jason Roy, Chris Green for Rashid Khan, Ben Laughlin for Jofra Archer.
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The favourites for this year are hands down Islamabad United
 
IU and rightfully so. The other teams are full of TTF's and over-aged domestic players. Hopefully, the likes of Butt, Talat, Farhan, Gohar, Rohail demolish the opposition.
 
I would have to say ISU, Lahore and Multan are loaded but Lahore have flopped last two editions so don't know if their threat is real. Multan could be a read handful given that Tahir performs and Shezi lives up to his PSL dominance. Lastly, ISU seems to be the strongest team due to their combination of a young team. #UnitedWeWin
 
world cup captain said:
I would have to say ISU, Lahore and Multan are loaded but Lahore have flopped last two editions so don't know if their threat is real. Multan could be a read handful given that Tahir performs and Shezi lives up to his PSL dominance. Lastly, ISU seems to be the strongest team due to their combination of a young team. #UnitedWeWin
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I love Misbah, but he's past it and his batting can severely cost Islu if he stays at the crease for a decent amount of time.
 
Sarfarazian92 said:
I love Misbah, but he's past it and his batting can severely cost Islu if he stays at the crease for a decent amount of time.
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It gives me a little uncertainty to see him in the batting line up but he hasn't been too shabby in the recent One Day cup. If things go our way, we shouldn't need Misbah to bat but in case they don't, I'm sure he probably has a few more shots in him.
 
:))) Easiest question in the history of questions. I mean do I even have to say it, I could go ask a Canadian tomorrow morning in the mall who has never watched cricket before and even he would know that LAHORE QALANDARS are WINNING PSL3!!!!

Not only do we have the best team but we also have the best anthem!

 
QalandarFan said:
:))) Easiest question in the history of questions. I mean do I even have to say it, I could go ask a Canadian tomorrow morning in the mall who has never watched cricket before and even he would know that LAHORE QALANDARS are WINNING PSL3!!!!

Not only do we have the best team but we also have the best anthem!

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May I remind you that your precious LQ came 5th in the previous two editions... this year LQ can aim for a new high and come 6th :91:
 
world cup captain said:
I would have to say ISU, Lahore and Multan are loaded but Lahore have flopped last two editions so don't know if their threat is real. Multan could be a read handful given that Tahir performs and Shezi lives up to his PSL dominance. Lastly, ISU seems to be the strongest team due to their combination of a young team. #UnitedWeWin
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#UnitedYouFall and fall you will once you face the Qalandars!
 
Syed1 said:
May I remind you that your precious LQ came 5th in the previous two editions... this year LQ can aim for a new high and come 6th :91:
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Yes the key word their is previous, this is franchise cricket and any team can step up at any time. Just so happens this is LQ's year!
 
Mast qalandar Lahore qalandar will win this time! Best t20 batsmen and bowlers are good enough too! This time it's Lahore qalandars cup!
 
It’s a three way competition between IU, PZ and MS. I think PZ have the X factor to cross the line due their experience local players.
 
Strongest team : Islamabad, want lahore to do Well ... and want also Multan to do Well.. as Its our region
 
QalandarFan said:
:))) Easiest question in the history of questions. I mean do I even have to say it, I could go ask a Canadian tomorrow morning in the mall who has never watched cricket before and even he would know that LAHORE QALANDARS are WINNING PSL3!!!!

Not only do we have the best team but we also have the best anthem!

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Highly doubt it
Don’t have anyone to anchor the innings and have a long tail
4 specialist batsman and then bowlers or bowling all rounders

That said will get further than previous seasons
 
Hasan123 said:
I'm confident my team Islamabad United will win.
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IU team isn't balanced actually. If you look at the squad, it's extremely polarized - there are several exciting youngsters with little experience, and then there are several over the hill oldies, who will occupy critical spots. That squad seriously lack players in their prime - that's 3/4 years either side of 29. With Misbah occupying No. 4 spot, I feel IU will disappoint most here.
 
As of now, my order will be

Final: Karachi, Lahore (Not saying KK is assured winners)
Last 4: Multan, Islamabad
Preliminary round exit: Peshawar, Quetta
 
Karachi seem to the most match winners, players who could turn up and win the game on their own at any given day.

I would like Lahore to win as they are an excellent franchise who do a lot of good work all round.
 
MMHS said:
As of now, my order will be

Final: Karachi, Lahore (Not saying KK is assured winners)
Last 4: Multan, Islamabad
Preliminary round exit: Peshawar, Quetta
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Karachi Kings were favourites for the final
But after losing Colin Munro, Luke Wright and Mitchell Johnson, along with Eoin Morgan’s limited availability and Shinwaris injury their chances go down a lot

Reckon they will get to the last 4, but not good enough to get to the final
 
Base on the squads my rating for teams is as below

1) Islamabad United (great squad)
2) Karachi Kings (great local players)
3) Multan Sultan (decent squad)
4) Lahore Qalandars (Lynn factor only, non-existent lower middle order)
5) Quetta Gladiators (weak local players)
6) Peshawar Zalmi (weak squad)

Though I voted for LQ as I’m their supporter but the reason LQ is not a good team this year again has the following reasons

1) Didn’t select a good wicket keeper
2) Didn’t select local batsmen, any injury to Fakhar and Umar will put them in a very deep trouble
3) Selected 11 local bowlers as compare to only 2 local batsmen
 
QalandarFan said:
:))) Easiest question in the history of questions. I mean do I even have to say it, I could go ask a Canadian tomorrow morning in the mall who has never watched cricket before and even he would know that LAHORE QALANDARS are WINNING PSL3!!!!

Not only do we have the best team but we also have the best anthem!

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Thumbs up ...thats the spirit :)
 
MMHS said:
IU team isn't balanced actually. If you look at the squad, it's extremely polarized - there are several exciting youngsters with little experience, and then there are several over the hill oldies, who will occupy critical spots. That squad seriously lack players in their prime - that's 3/4 years either side of 29. With Misbah occupying No. 4 spot, I feel IU will disappoint most here.
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Need some experience . It's only misbah over the hill. I don't think Ronchi will start, think Billings will. JP isn't available for the whole tournament as well.
 
Islamabad United (barring Misbah) is the best team on paper.

Russell is also back, he's their Lucky Charm.
 
All said and done KK vs LQ would be a dream final and it will be held in Karachi as well.
 
If India vs Pakistan is not going to happen, can the boards push for the winners of IPL and PSL to have a three match series. That would be a mouth watering prospect. The IPL winner may edge it due to availability of higher standard foreigners, but anything can happen in T20 cricket.
 
The tournament really, really needs to be held in Pakistan. Till now it hasn't even reached 50% of it's potential. Hosting it in Pakistan would be celebrated like a festival by their fans.
 
hailian said:
Base on the squads my rating for teams is as below

1) Islamabad United (great squad)
2) Karachi Kings (great local players)
3) Multan Sultan (decent squad)
4) Lahore Qalandars (Lynn factor only, non-existent lower middle order)
5) Quetta Gladiators (weak local players)
6) Peshawar Zalmi (weak squad)

Though I voted for LQ as I’m their supporter but the reason LQ is not a good team this year again has the following reasons

1) Didn’t select a good wicket keeper
2) Didn’t select local batsmen, any injury to Fakhar and Umar will put them in a very deep trouble
3) Selected 11 local bowlers as compare to only 2 local batsmen
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You forgot about the Sohail Akhtar factor. :babar
 
Hitman said:
The tournament really, really needs to be held in Pakistan. Till now it hasn't even reached 50% of it's potential. Hosting it in Pakistan would be celebrated like a festival by their fans.
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Actually, the standard of foreigners suggests that PSL can definitely be hosted in PAK - still there'll be enough foreigners. Now, it's becoming a milking cow for obsolete cricketers, who are earning cheap money from PSL - I am sure many of them will tour PAK as well.
 
CadPakFan said:
You forgot about the Sohail Akhtar factor. :babar
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Suhail is the X factor for LQ, he looks in good explosive form, but remember he is playing cricket for 3-4 months only. He was a full time office clerk for the last 2 years with a big tummy and not playing cricket. So i'm not counting on him because he hasn't played a quality cricket yet. He is training hard and losing weight, lets see how he perform at a good level. fingers crossed with high hopes!
 
MMHS said:
Actually, the standard of foreigners suggests that PSL can definitely be hosted in PAK - still there'll be enough foreigners. Now, it's becoming a milking cow for obsolete cricketers, who are earning cheap money from PSL - I am sure many of them will tour PAK as well.
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is not that bad as you are making it to be.
 
DRsohail said:
is not that bad as you are making it to be.
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It's not that good actually, for the hype it's creating. Watching PAK oldies, you should realize the same for every other country it's almost same. Therefore, all the retired gala name that's associated in PSL are just adding weight of their name in PSL - Mac's & Gayles & KPs & Sangas won't do much in Internationals any more.

Coming to PSL foreigners, what franchise are doing is paying money to average foreign players, whose equivalent can be easily found at home also. I explained that in another thread of IPL - why Shakib is such low valued in IPL (in fact he was benched almost entire last season, despite being one of the best in IPL couple seasons back) and he is No. 1 T20 all-rounder for about a decade now. The reason is that, a player of Shakib's type (tight finger spinner who can bat well at a decent rate, but not explosive hitter), is available in abundance in IND, may be not as good, but serves the purpose. Same Shakib was among very few foreigners in BBL and he'll be among highest paid players in EPL, if it starts during his prime.

And, yesterday I wrote that if PAK players are invited, apart from Sharjeel, and may be Malik hardly any current PAK batsman will be called (but Umar as WK-batsman & Maqsood will get calls, if they are fit & in form for PAK), while Amir, Hasan, JK, Irfaaan, Wahab, Shadab .. even Raees should get calls. The reason being simple - for 8 foreign spots, you pay (or try to pay) for something significantly better than what you have in domestics. Long back, when 3/4 foreigners were playing in Dhaka League, we used to hire players to bowl at least 35 overs, hence lot of PAK players.

Coming to PSL, I don't see the reason why PSL should pay 5X times for players like Duminy, Badree, Gunaratne, Willy, Walton, Mac, Simmons, Ramdhin, Devcich, Pooran, Mills, Bravo, Sammy, Dwyne Smith, Dawson, Fletcher, KP, Watson, Mahmudullah, Tamim, Albie ............ Reduce foreign quota to 2 (4 to be in squad), pay them sweet enough that it can overcome the hallucination of a bomb attack and tell players that PSL will be played in PAK, sign it or get lost. There are enough, enough, enough domestic players to cover that.

PAK is almost like my 2nd team and I am one who makes lots of laugh for the ODI team, because it's a genuinely poor & obsolete unit in the most calculative version of cricket; BUT none will deny that this is a very good T20 unit for the kung fu style of cricket, which suits Afridi generation. There are not many ODI players in PAK, who actually will cut the highest level because of the tactical nature of the game, but lots, lots of quality T20 players - instant, flamboyant cricketers who use more muscles than brain cell. And, lots of natural bowlers, who are very good for 4 overs.

Add to that top AFG players (who are also exactly the same - very good in T20), few ZIM, WI, BD, SRL players (and those willing from AUS, SAF, ENG, NZ), that's enough, enough players to maintain same standard and arrange PSL in PAK. For example - Simmons might not play in PAK, Sabbir will definitely play; same goes for Puran vs Liton or Soumya for Dumini and a whole lot of Lankans, ZIM, AFG as well - players who are at their prime and hungry to perform for a name.

In fact, overall quality will improve, instead of bargaining with those arrogant Emirates, if it's arranged in front of houseful, passionate home fans. I see PSL as simply a business venture, money making machine which can feed the domestic cricket - to me, arranging PSL with limited willing foreigners in PAK, is a far bigger money basket.
 
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This is probably going to be starting XI for each team

Islamabad United: Misbah-ul-Haq (c), Andre Russell, JP Duminy, Samuel Badree, Mohammad Sami, Luke Ronchi, Rumman Raees, Shadab Khan, Faheem Ashraf, Iftikhar Ahmed, Amad Butt, Asif Ali, Sam Billings, Zafar Gohar, Sahibzada Farhan, Hussain Talat, Rohail Nazir.
Supplementary: Alex Hales, David Willey, Mohammad Hasan, Mohammad Hasnain.
Cover: Asela Gunaratne for JP Duminy, Steve Finn for David Willey, Chadwick Walton for Sam Billings.


Starting XI: $Ronchi+, Farhan, $Billings, *Misbah, $JP, $Russell, ^Talat, Shadab, Faheem, Gohar, Sami

Karachi Kings: Shahid Afridi, Mohammad Amir, Colin Ingram, Imad Wasim (c), Babar Azam, Tymal Mills, Mohammad Rizwan, Ravi Bopara, Joe Denly, Usman Shinwari, Usama Mir, Khurram Manzoor, David Wiese, Tabish Khan, Mohammad Irfan jr., Hasan Mohsin, Mohammad Taha, Mushtaq Ahmed Kalhoro.
Supplementary: Lendl Simmons, Eoin Morgan, Saifullah Bangash.


Starting XI: $Ingram, Babar, $Denly, $Bopara, Rizwan+, Afridi, *Imad, ^Mohsin/Taha, Amir, $Mills, Usama

Lahore Qalandars: Umar Akmal, Sunil Narine, Chris Lynn, Brendon McCullum (c), Fakhar Zaman, Mustafizur Rahman, Yasir Shah, Sohail Khan, Bilal Asif, Cameron Deport, Aamer Yamin, Bilawal Bhatti, Raza Hasan, Sohail Akhtar, Imran Khan jr., Shaheen Shah Afridi, Ghulam Mudassar, Salman Irshad.
Supplementary: Anton Devcich, Mitch McClenaghan, Gulraiz Sadaf.
Cover: Dinesh Ramdin for Mustafizur Rahman.


Starting XI: $*BMac, Fakhar, Umar+, $Lynn, Yamin, S Akhtar, $Narine, S Khan, Yasir, ^SS Afridi, $Mustafiz


Multan Sultans: Shoaib Malik (c), Kieron Pollard, Imran Tahir, Kumar Sangakkara, Sohail Tanvir, Darren Bravo, Junaid Khan, Mohammad Irfan, Ahmed Shehzad, Kashif Bhatti, Irfan Khan, Sohaib Maqsood, Mohammad Abbas, Nicolas Pooran, Shan Masood, Abdullah Shafique, Saif Badar.
Supplementary: Hardus Viljoen, Umar Gul, Umar Siddiq, Ross Whiteley
Cover: Zahir Khan for Nicolas Pooran, Thisara Perera for Imran Tahir.


Starting XI: Shan, Ahmed, $Kumar+, Maqsood, ^Badar, *Malik, $Pollard, 2 of (Viljoen/JK/Kashif/Tanvir), $Tahir, Irfaaaan

This might be only XI left with less than 4 foreigners. I believe Viljoen will play every game in UAE, before eliminator.


Peshawar Zalmi: Mohammad Hafeez, Wahab Riaz, Dwayne Bravo, Shakib al Hasan, Kamran Akmal, Tamim Iqbal, Darren Sammy (c), Hasan Ali, Hammad Azam, Haris Sohail, Chris Jordan, Mohammad Asghar, Saad Nasim, Taimoor Sultan, Sameen Gul, Ibtisam Sheikh, Khushdil Shah.
Supplementary: Andre Fletcher, Khalid Usman, Mohammad Arif.
Cover: Dwayne Smith for DJ Bravo and Tamim Iqbal, Liam Dawson for Shakib al Hasan.


Starting XI: KAkmal+, $Tamim, $Shakib, Hari, MoHa, $Bravo, Hammad, $*Sammy, Hasan, Wahab, ^Asghar

Quetta Gladiators: Sarfaraz Ahmed (c), Kevin Pietersen, Shane Watson, Rilee Rossouw, Mahmudullah, Jofra Archer, Asad Shafiq, Mohammad Nawaz, Rahat Ali, Anwar Ali, Mir Hamza, Umar Amin, Rameez Raja jr., Saad Ali, Saud Shakeel, Hasan Khna, Mohammad Junaid.
Supplementary: Jason Roy, Rashid Khan, Mohammad Azam Khan, Faraz Ahmed.
Cover: John Hastings for Mahmudullah, Albie Morkel for Jason Roy, Chris Green for Rashid Khan, Ben Laughlin for Jofra Archer.


Starting XI: Amin, Asad, $Rossouw, ^Saud, $KP, *Sarfraz+, $Watson, $Archer, Nawaz, Anwar, Rahat

After looking at the possible starting XI (It'll change once players start to leave, which can't be factored now), I feel, I have over estimated the KK squad and probably under estimated QG squad. Archer changes the balance considerably for QG, while KK now must be scratching head for allowing Malik & Sohail to leave.

The worst team I see might be the last Champs PZ, who allowed Afridi to leave and now stuck with over the hill players and few top foreigners might not play whole tournament.

Now, I feel LQ has the best squad & starting XI - one simple reason is that, in their starting XI, they have very good combination, and none of their top foreigners (apart from Mustafiz) is likely to leave other than injury - still they are left with a quality foreigner (Delport/Lynn).

I still think, T20 is a bowling game (surprisingly like Test, but for a different reason) - the game is too short to bring every batsmen or the batting depth into equation; it's the bowling that's limited to 4 over each, hence side with better 5 X 4, combination should do better; particularly side that has better 4th & 5th bowling option. In that regard, KK actually has very good cover - because of Afridi & Imad (Top bowlers, who can bat/hit).

I take Viljoen will play till eliminator, which makes Multan quite balanced team as well, but from top to bottom LQ is a fantastic team - 2 top quality spinner, a T20 specialist and couple of very good new ball bowler, backed by Yamin AND some of the best hitters across 1-8 batting order.

If I am to order now, probably this will be my final standing

Champs: LQ
Eliminator: MS/KK/IU (That's my order - probably, I am too much impressed with Shan, Ahmed, Irfaaaan & Maqsood's recent form)
5th: QG
6th: PZ
 
:zalmis :zalmis

Very less support here for my Team. I guess we are underdogs. Maybe underground dogs
 
Would love to see any one of kk,IU and lq win other 3 team are less exciting
 
On paper, IU are strongest, but when it comes to field, depends on who plays with most heart and intelligence.
 
People here are underestimating the factor of Shaheen Shah for LQ. While Karachi Kings might be happy wiith possible return of Shinwari as he is said to be fit by NCA but will be finalized after the fitness test to be held on 20th Feb in which Junaid Khan, Imad Wasim and Sohail Khan will also join him.

Hassan Ali's absence in the first few matches will be cause of concern for PZ but if Sameen Gul can live upto his potential then you never know.

Malik and Sarfaraz are probably the best T20 captains around so MS and QG can never be counted out. QG with Archer's inclusion does have that x factor as well.

In terms of pure talent IU has some exceptional talent in both batting and bowling departments. Farhan, Ronchi, Russel, Faheem, Shadab, Talat. Talent wise its probably overloaded but depends how each of them handles themself.
 
[MENTION=79064]MMHS[/MENTION] pz is trash but remmber MCULUM will be not that better than Misbah as a capatin and as a bat too...so it will be bw ISLU and LQ> final.......
 
Syed1 said:
If India vs Pakistan is not going to happen, can the boards push for the winners of IPL and PSL to have a three match series. That would be a mouth watering prospect. The IPL winner may edge it due to availability of higher standard foreigners, but anything can happen in T20 cricket.
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That would be great. Problem would be cases where players have represented both teams. I still remember when little Lahore Lions beat giant Mumbai Indians.
 
DRsohail said:
[MENTION=79064]MMHS[/MENTION] pz is trash but remmber MCULUM will be not that better than Misbah as a capatin and as a bat too...so it will be bw ISLU and LQ> final.......
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Buzz is an exceptional Captain in LOs, no comparison with Misbah. As a batsman, he is finished, so is Misbah, but what Buzz won’t do is a 19 ball 18 in PP - if he stays for 19 balls, it’ll be 35 or he’ll get out for the next batsman to try.

IU can make the final, even win it - but that won’t be for Misbah’s Captaincy for sure; some of the younger players will need to have outstanding PSL for that.
 
MMHS said:
Buzz is an exceptional Captain in LOs, no comparison with Misbah. As a batsman, he is finished, so is Misbah, but what Buzz won’t do is a 19 ball 18 in PP - if he stays for 19 balls, it’ll be 35 or he’ll get out for the next batsman to try.

IU can make the final, even win it - but that won’t be for Misbah’s Captaincy for sure; some of the younger players will need to have outstanding PSL for that.
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ISD will hopefully not need Misbah to fire,,,lolz..but by the way i have heard that he wil be missing some PSL matches due to fitnsess issues.
 
Chris Lynn, Brendon McCullum (c), Fakhar Zaman - that's some top order for LQ if play to form.
 
Islamabad look clear favourites, easily have the best team, great all-rounders and have a huge variety both in bowling and batting also.
 
Lynn in good form, some brutal hitting by the Aussies.
 
Kroll said:
Chris Lynn, Brendon McCullum (c), Fakhar Zaman - that's some top order for LQ if play to form.
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They may even move Narine up he order. He’s been quite effective with the bat aswell recently.
 
Syed1 said:
May I remind you that your precious LQ came 5th in the previous two editions... this year LQ can aim for a new high and come 6th :91:
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A tough milestone, but the team certainly has the ability to makes the impossible, possible.
 
T20's bit of a lottery, strongest looking team on paper can fare quite badly and vice versa.
 
Probably not going to happen but i hope Multan sultan cricket kay toofan. Purely because of the name and tagline
 
MMHS said:
This is probably going to be starting XI for each team

Islamabad United: Misbah-ul-Haq (c), Andre Russell, JP Duminy, Samuel Badree, Mohammad Sami, Luke Ronchi, Rumman Raees, Shadab Khan, Faheem Ashraf, Iftikhar Ahmed, Amad Butt, Asif Ali, Sam Billings, Zafar Gohar, Sahibzada Farhan, Hussain Talat, Rohail Nazir.
Supplementary: Alex Hales, David Willey, Mohammad Hasan, Mohammad Hasnain.
Cover: Asela Gunaratne for JP Duminy, Steve Finn for David Willey, Chadwick Walton for Sam Billings.


Starting XI: $Ronchi+, Farhan, $Billings, *Misbah, $JP, $Russell, ^Talat, Shadab, Faheem, Gohar, Sami

Karachi Kings: Shahid Afridi, Mohammad Amir, Colin Ingram, Imad Wasim (c), Babar Azam, Tymal Mills, Mohammad Rizwan, Ravi Bopara, Joe Denly, Usman Shinwari, Usama Mir, Khurram Manzoor, David Wiese, Tabish Khan, Mohammad Irfan jr., Hasan Mohsin, Mohammad Taha, Mushtaq Ahmed Kalhoro.
Supplementary: Lendl Simmons, Eoin Morgan, Saifullah Bangash.


Starting XI: $Ingram, Babar, $Denly, $Bopara, Rizwan+, Afridi, *Imad, ^Mohsin/Taha, Amir, $Mills, Usama

Lahore Qalandars: Umar Akmal, Sunil Narine, Chris Lynn, Brendon McCullum (c), Fakhar Zaman, Mustafizur Rahman, Yasir Shah, Sohail Khan, Bilal Asif, Cameron Deport, Aamer Yamin, Bilawal Bhatti, Raza Hasan, Sohail Akhtar, Imran Khan jr., Shaheen Shah Afridi, Ghulam Mudassar, Salman Irshad.
Supplementary: Anton Devcich, Mitch McClenaghan, Gulraiz Sadaf.
Cover: Dinesh Ramdin for Mustafizur Rahman.


Starting XI: $*BMac, Fakhar, Umar+, $Lynn, Yamin, S Akhtar, $Narine, S Khan, Yasir, ^SS Afridi, $Mustafiz


Multan Sultans: Shoaib Malik (c), Kieron Pollard, Imran Tahir, Kumar Sangakkara, Sohail Tanvir, Darren Bravo, Junaid Khan, Mohammad Irfan, Ahmed Shehzad, Kashif Bhatti, Irfan Khan, Sohaib Maqsood, Mohammad Abbas, Nicolas Pooran, Shan Masood, Abdullah Shafique, Saif Badar.
Supplementary: Hardus Viljoen, Umar Gul, Umar Siddiq, Ross Whiteley
Cover: Zahir Khan for Nicolas Pooran, Thisara Perera for Imran Tahir.


Starting XI: Shan, Ahmed, $Kumar+, Maqsood, ^Badar, *Malik, $Pollard, 2 of (Viljoen/JK/Kashif/Tanvir), $Tahir, Irfaaaan

This might be only XI left with less than 4 foreigners. I believe Viljoen will play every game in UAE, before eliminator.


Peshawar Zalmi: Mohammad Hafeez, Wahab Riaz, Dwayne Bravo, Shakib al Hasan, Kamran Akmal, Tamim Iqbal, Darren Sammy (c), Hasan Ali, Hammad Azam, Haris Sohail, Chris Jordan, Mohammad Asghar, Saad Nasim, Taimoor Sultan, Sameen Gul, Ibtisam Sheikh, Khushdil Shah.
Supplementary: Andre Fletcher, Khalid Usman, Mohammad Arif.
Cover: Dwayne Smith for DJ Bravo and Tamim Iqbal, Liam Dawson for Shakib al Hasan.


Starting XI: KAkmal+, $Tamim, $Shakib, Hari, MoHa, $Bravo, Hammad, $*Sammy, Hasan, Wahab, ^Asghar

Quetta Gladiators: Sarfaraz Ahmed (c), Kevin Pietersen, Shane Watson, Rilee Rossouw, Mahmudullah, Jofra Archer, Asad Shafiq, Mohammad Nawaz, Rahat Ali, Anwar Ali, Mir Hamza, Umar Amin, Rameez Raja jr., Saad Ali, Saud Shakeel, Hasan Khna, Mohammad Junaid.
Supplementary: Jason Roy, Rashid Khan, Mohammad Azam Khan, Faraz Ahmed.
Cover: John Hastings for Mahmudullah, Albie Morkel for Jason Roy, Chris Green for Rashid Khan, Ben Laughlin for Jofra Archer.


Starting XI: Amin, Asad, $Rossouw, ^Saud, $KP, *Sarfraz+, $Watson, $Archer, Nawaz, Anwar, Rahat

After looking at the possible starting XI (It'll change once players start to leave, which can't be factored now), I feel, I have over estimated the KK squad and probably under estimated QG squad. Archer changes the balance considerably for QG, while KK now must be scratching head for allowing Malik & Sohail to leave.

The worst team I see might be the last Champs PZ, who allowed Afridi to leave and now stuck with over the hill players and few top foreigners might not play whole tournament.

Now, I feel LQ has the best squad & starting XI - one simple reason is that, in their starting XI, they have very good combination, and none of their top foreigners (apart from Mustafiz) is likely to leave other than injury - still they are left with a quality foreigner (Delport/Lynn).

I still think, T20 is a bowling game (surprisingly like Test, but for a different reason) - the game is too short to bring every batsmen or the batting depth into equation; it's the bowling that's limited to 4 over each, hence side with better 5 X 4, combination should do better; particularly side that has better 4th & 5th bowling option. In that regard, KK actually has very good cover - because of Afridi & Imad (Top bowlers, who can bat/hit).

I take Viljoen will play till eliminator, which makes Multan quite balanced team as well, but from top to bottom LQ is a fantastic team - 2 top quality spinner, a T20 specialist and couple of very good new ball bowler, backed by Yamin AND some of the best hitters across 1-8 batting order.

If I am to order now, probably this will be my final standing

Champs: LQ
Eliminator: MS/KK/IU (That's my order - probably, I am too much impressed with Shan, Ahmed, Irfaaaan & Maqsood's recent form)
5th: QG
6th: PZ
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Rumman Raees missing in your ist xi in :islu and :lq lahore will go with either agha salman or bilal for offspin option and your :pz peshawar zalmi xi doesn't have an emerging player and i dont think Quetta will go with saud in opening matches i think they are gona continue with hasan khan the darter
 
MMHS said:
This is probably going to be starting XI for each team

Islamabad United: Misbah-ul-Haq (c), Andre Russell, JP Duminy, Samuel Badree, Mohammad Sami, Luke Ronchi, Rumman Raees, Shadab Khan, Faheem Ashraf, Iftikhar Ahmed, Amad Butt, Asif Ali, Sam Billings, Zafar Gohar, Sahibzada Farhan, Hussain Talat, Rohail Nazir.
Supplementary: Alex Hales, David Willey, Mohammad Hasan, Mohammad Hasnain.
Cover: Asela Gunaratne for JP Duminy, Steve Finn for David Willey, Chadwick Walton for Sam Billings.


Starting XI: $Ronchi+, Farhan, $Billings, *Misbah, $JP, $Russell, ^Talat, Shadab, Faheem, Gohar, Sami

Karachi Kings: Shahid Afridi, Mohammad Amir, Colin Ingram, Imad Wasim (c), Babar Azam, Tymal Mills, Mohammad Rizwan, Ravi Bopara, Joe Denly, Usman Shinwari, Usama Mir, Khurram Manzoor, David Wiese, Tabish Khan, Mohammad Irfan jr., Hasan Mohsin, Mohammad Taha, Mushtaq Ahmed Kalhoro.
Supplementary: Lendl Simmons, Eoin Morgan, Saifullah Bangash.


Starting XI: $Ingram, Babar, $Denly, $Bopara, Rizwan+, Afridi, *Imad, ^Mohsin/Taha, Amir, $Mills, Usama

Lahore Qalandars: Umar Akmal, Sunil Narine, Chris Lynn, Brendon McCullum (c), Fakhar Zaman, Mustafizur Rahman, Yasir Shah, Sohail Khan, Bilal Asif, Cameron Deport, Aamer Yamin, Bilawal Bhatti, Raza Hasan, Sohail Akhtar, Imran Khan jr., Shaheen Shah Afridi, Ghulam Mudassar, Salman Irshad.
Supplementary: Anton Devcich, Mitch McClenaghan, Gulraiz Sadaf.
Cover: Dinesh Ramdin for Mustafizur Rahman.


Starting XI: $*BMac, Fakhar, Umar+, $Lynn, Yamin, S Akhtar, $Narine, S Khan, Yasir, ^SS Afridi, $Mustafiz


Multan Sultans: Shoaib Malik (c), Kieron Pollard, Imran Tahir, Kumar Sangakkara, Sohail Tanvir, Darren Bravo, Junaid Khan, Mohammad Irfan, Ahmed Shehzad, Kashif Bhatti, Irfan Khan, Sohaib Maqsood, Mohammad Abbas, Nicolas Pooran, Shan Masood, Abdullah Shafique, Saif Badar.
Supplementary: Hardus Viljoen, Umar Gul, Umar Siddiq, Ross Whiteley
Cover: Zahir Khan for Nicolas Pooran, Thisara Perera for Imran Tahir.


Starting XI: Shan, Ahmed, $Kumar+, Maqsood, ^Badar, *Malik, $Pollard, 2 of (Viljoen/JK/Kashif/Tanvir), $Tahir, Irfaaaan

This might be only XI left with less than 4 foreigners. I believe Viljoen will play every game in UAE, before eliminator.


Peshawar Zalmi: Mohammad Hafeez, Wahab Riaz, Dwayne Bravo, Shakib al Hasan, Kamran Akmal, Tamim Iqbal, Darren Sammy (c), Hasan Ali, Hammad Azam, Haris Sohail, Chris Jordan, Mohammad Asghar, Saad Nasim, Taimoor Sultan, Sameen Gul, Ibtisam Sheikh, Khushdil Shah.
Supplementary: Andre Fletcher, Khalid Usman, Mohammad Arif.
Cover: Dwayne Smith for DJ Bravo and Tamim Iqbal, Liam Dawson for Shakib al Hasan.


Starting XI: KAkmal+, $Tamim, $Shakib, Hari, MoHa, $Bravo, Hammad, $*Sammy, Hasan, Wahab, ^Asghar

Quetta Gladiators: Sarfaraz Ahmed (c), Kevin Pietersen, Shane Watson, Rilee Rossouw, Mahmudullah, Jofra Archer, Asad Shafiq, Mohammad Nawaz, Rahat Ali, Anwar Ali, Mir Hamza, Umar Amin, Rameez Raja jr., Saad Ali, Saud Shakeel, Hasan Khna, Mohammad Junaid.
Supplementary: Jason Roy, Rashid Khan, Mohammad Azam Khan, Faraz Ahmed.
Cover: John Hastings for Mahmudullah, Albie Morkel for Jason Roy, Chris Green for Rashid Khan, Ben Laughlin for Jofra Archer.


Starting XI: Amin, Asad, $Rossouw, ^Saud, $KP, *Sarfraz+, $Watson, $Archer, Nawaz, Anwar, Rahat

After looking at the possible starting XI (It'll change once players start to leave, which can't be factored now), I feel, I have over estimated the KK squad and probably under estimated QG squad. Archer changes the balance considerably for QG, while KK now must be scratching head for allowing Malik & Sohail to leave.

The worst team I see might be the last Champs PZ, who allowed Afridi to leave and now stuck with over the hill players and few top foreigners might not play whole tournament.

Now, I feel LQ has the best squad & starting XI - one simple reason is that, in their starting XI, they have very good combination, and none of their top foreigners (apart from Mustafiz) is likely to leave other than injury - still they are left with a quality foreigner (Delport/Lynn).

I still think, T20 is a bowling game (surprisingly like Test, but for a different reason) - the game is too short to bring every batsmen or the batting depth into equation; it's the bowling that's limited to 4 over each, hence side with better 5 X 4, combination should do better; particularly side that has better 4th & 5th bowling option. In that regard, KK actually has very good cover - because of Afridi & Imad (Top bowlers, who can bat/hit).

I take Viljoen will play till eliminator, which makes Multan quite balanced team as well, but from top to bottom LQ is a fantastic team - 2 top quality spinner, a T20 specialist and couple of very good new ball bowler, backed by Yamin AND some of the best hitters across 1-8 batting order.

If I am to order now, probably this will be my final standing

Champs: LQ
Eliminator: MS/KK/IU (That's my order - probably, I am too much impressed with Shan, Ahmed, Irfaaaan & Maqsood's recent form)
5th: QG
6th: PZ
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LQ are gonna win nothing
 
b.lesner said:
Rumman Raees missing in your ist xi in :islu and :lq lahore will go with either agha salman or bilal for offspin option and your :pz peshawar zalmi xi doesn't have an emerging player and i dont think Quetta will go with saud in opening matches i think they are gona continue with hasan khan the darter
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For IU, I guess it's Raees vs Sami; I have some confidence on Misbah - at least at the start. I thought Asghar was emerging. LQ already has Narine, 2nd offie is over kill, may be they can drop Sohail Akhtar.
Saud is bowling better than Hasan, let alone batting.
 
I don't care who wins, as long as Karachi and Quetta lose.

Karachi kings for being brain dead and selecting someone like tymal who got trashed in every single BBL game and has been mediocre in leagues, picked just because he's foreign.

Quetta because of friendship 11 selected by our very own sarfy, seeing shafique and Anwar Ali over promising youngsters in t20 makes me sick.
 
Honestly I don't even care about this Mickey Mouse T20 tournament. Not gonna watch.
 
MMHS said:
For IU, I guess it's Raees vs Sami; I have some confidence on Misbah - at least at the start. I thought Asghar was emerging. LQ already has Narine, 2nd offie is over kill, may be they can drop Sohail Akhtar.
Saud is bowling better than Hasan, let alone batting.
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Are u serious that Saud willl bowl better than hassan khan <the darter though > in t20 on UAE pitches.
 
After watching Azam Khan's power hitting i am now sure it's gonna be Quetta Gladiators
 
DRsohail said:
Are u serious that Saud willl bowl better than hassan khan <the darter though > in t20 on UAE pitches.
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100% - you can put bet on that. Hasan is a nothing spinner (nothing against the kid, he is just not talented enough), who darts at pace and left arm angle takes the ball away. He looks decent in sluggish UAE tracks; won’t bother even tail on good, true wickets.

Saud actually bowls lot slower and he turns the ball when he flights it. Hasan might look a little economical, but he is not going to do much without scoreboard pressure; Saud can get settled middle order out in UAE wickets.
 
MMHS said:
100% - you can put bet on that. Hasan is a nothing spinner (nothing against the kid, he is just not talented enough), who darts at pace and left arm angle takes the ball away. He looks decent in sluggish UAE tracks; won’t bother even tail on good, true wickets.

Saud actually bowls lot slower and he turns the ball when he flights it. Hasan might look a little economical, but he is not going to do much without scoreboard pressure; Saud can get settled middle order out in UAE wickets.
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It shows he is better bowler than Haris sohail.good news but if inzi show some spine and select the kid for the next tour.i mean odi.
 
DRsohail said:
It shows he is better bowler than Haris sohail.good news but if inzi show some spine and select the kid for the next tour.i mean odi.
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He should be - at least he is muuuuuch fitter and several years younger - definitely can improve on bowling. I can recall that Haris himself wasn't any serious bowler - it was probably Mushi in 2014 just before the AUS/NZ series started working with his bowling and he is workable now for few overs. Saud is actually a bowler from U19 days, hence it should be easier for his age & fitness.

Regarding selection, Ul Haq has lots of spine - he made PAK team his biradary, then took most of them to ICL at their prime, risking PAK career for ever; so guts isn't any issue. However, I am not sure if Ul Haq has seen Saud, so fingers crossed. SRL in UAE was the perfect opportunity to pick 3/4 new faces, but he couldn't raise above his loyalist mentality. I am yet to be convinced that things have changed - hope it's not the effort of buying some time from that 5-0.
 
MMHS said:
For IU, I guess it's Raees vs Sami; I have some confidence on Misbah - at least at the start. I thought Asghar was emerging. LQ already has Narine, 2nd offie is over kill, may be they can drop Sohail Akhtar.
Saud is bowling better than Hasan, let alone batting.
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inzi said last time i like hasnain khan :P :D and he is liked by Quetta management highly doubt they will have saud

As far a s Rumman is concerned he is a regular pakistan t20 bowler impossible to drop him

Yes asghar is not in emerging player category. they have sameen Gul and ibtesam sheikh and supplementary emerging player as khushdil shah
 
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