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Pakistan Super League 2019

Dates	14 February – 17 March 2019
Administrator(s)	Pakistan Cricket Board
Cricket format	Twenty20
Tournament format(s)	Double round robin and playoffs
Host(s)	United Arab Emirates Pakistan
Champions	Quetta Gladiators (1st title)
Runners-up	Peshawar Zalmi
Participants	6
Matches	34
Attendance	495,817 (14,583 per match)
Player of the series	Shane Watson (QG) (430 runs)
Most runs	Shane Watson (QG) (430)
Most wickets	Hasan Ali (PZ) (25)
Official website	psl-t20.com
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2019 Pakistan Super League (also known as PSL 4 or for sponsorship reasons HBL PSL 2019) was the fourth season of the Pakistan Super League, a franchise Twenty20 cricket league which was established by the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) in 2015. The tournament took place from 14 February to 17 March 2019.

In the championship game, Quetta Gladiators defeated Peshawar Zalmi by eight wickets in Karachi to win the title for the first time. Mohammad Hasnain of Quetta was named the Man of the Match of the Final. Shane Watson, also of Quetta, was awarded the Player of the Tournament award and the leading run scorer award with a total of 435 runs in the tournament. Hasan Ali of Peshawar was awarded the leading wicket taker award with a total of 25 wickets.

Background

On 10 November 2018, PCB terminated franchise agreements with the owner of Multan Sultans, Schön Properties. Ali Khan Tareen later became the new owner of the team. On 14 November, PCB announced that HBL has renewed its partnership with PSL for 3 more years until 2021. On 21 December, Blitz Advertising won the broadcasting rights for 3 years on a bid of US$36 million, which is 358% greater amount than before.

Broadcasting partners

The broadcasting rights of the 4th season of PSL were given to various Sports channels for covering the event in different countries. The broadcasting rights of the season in Pakistan were given to leading sports channels, PTV Sports & Geo Super, whereas in United States and Canada the rights were given to Willow TV. Hum TV was given the rights to broadcast the series in UK & Europe. The OTT rights for Middle-Eastern and North Africa Countries were given to Cricketgateway.

In case of India the broadcasting rights were given to DSports which partnered with Daily Fantasy Site, MyTeam11, to co-present PSL in India.

Teams and squads

Each franchise retained up to 10 players during the trade and retention window that started on 29 September. A squad of 16 players, with 4 supplementary players, was then completed in players draft held at Islamabad on 20 November. On 16 December 2018, PSL announced that each team will have additional budget to select 21-member squad. The replacement draft was held on 24 January in Lahore.

Venues

On 12 June 2018, the franchises and PCB officials in a meeting decided against the idea of having a full PSL fourth edition in Pakistan. The new PCB chairman Ehsan Mani announced on 15 September that tournament was to start from 14 February 2019 in UAE, and the last eight games were to be held in Pakistan along with the final that will be played on 17 March in Karachi.

For the first time, four PSL matches were played in Abu Dhabi.

Originally, three matches were scheduled to be played in Lahore but due to logistical and operational challenges posed by the delayed opening of Lahore airspace for commercial flights following military tensions between Pakistan and India, the matches were shifted to Karachi. Mani said that PCB had made a critical decision and the "headquarters of Pakistan cricket will be unable to host" 2019 PSL matches.

United Arab Emirates			Pakistan
Dubai	Sharjah	Abu Dhabi	Lahore	Karachi
Dubai International Cricket Stadium	Sharjah Cricket Stadium	Sheikh Zayed Cricket Stadium	Gaddafi Stadium	National Stadium
Capacity: 25,000	Capacity: 17,000	Capacity: 20,000	Capacity: 27,000	Capacity: 32,000
DubaiSharjahAbu Dhabi			LahoreKarachi

Match officials

Umpires

• Faisal Afridi
• Michael Gough
• Richard Illingworth
• Ranmore Martinesz
• Tariq Rasheed
• Ahsan Raza
• Shozab Raza
• Rashid Riaz
• Asif Yaqoob

Referees

• Mohammad Anees
• Muhammad Javed
• Roshan Mahanama

Promotion in media

The league was promoted on social media by the hashtag #HBLPSL due to its title sponsor, and by its official anthem #KhelDeewanoKa.

Ceremonies

Opening ceremony

The opening ceremony was held on 14 February at Dubai International Cricket Stadium, prior to the first match of the season. It was started by the national anthems of UAE "Ishy Bilady", and of Pakistan "Qaumi Taranah" as usual. It then featured a marching band, which performed Europe's "The Final Countdown". Then, British singer Marcia Barrett, from German band Boney M., performed her band's song "Daddy Cool". Aima Baig and Shuja Haider performed on their rendition of Nazia Hassan and Zohaib Hassan's "Disco Deewane". Then members of Junoon band performed on their "Yaar Bina", "Heerey" and "Jazba-e-Junoon". The last performance included title anthem of the league's fourth season by Fawad Khan featuring Young Desi. Then, melody of Ali Zafar's previous anthems for PSL was played, followed by fireworks.

A list of artists to perform at the ceremony was officially released on 18 January, according to which American rapper Pitbull was also confirmed to perform, however, later he withdrew due to a technical fault in his plane's engine.

Closing ceremony

The closing ceremony of the league, hosted by Fakhar-e-Alam, was held at National Stadium, Karachi, on 17 March prior to the league's final match. One minute silence was observed in respect of the martyrs of Christchurch mosque shootings.

Then Abrar-ul-Haq performed his song "Nach Majajan". Aima Baig and Shuja Haider once again paid tribute to Nazia Hassan by performing "Dosti" and "Disco Deewane". Fawad Khan featuring Young Desi performed the title anthem of the league's fourth season. Sahir Ali Bagga then performed a patriotic song "Har Dil Ki Awaz". Last performance was by Junoon, who sang "Zamaane Ke Andaaz", "Khudi Ko Kar Buland", "Sayonee" and "Dil Dil Pakistan".

The Chief Minister of Sindh, Syed Murad Ali Shah, Spanish World Cup winning footballer Carles Puyol and the cast of the upcoming Pakistani film The Legend of Maula Jatt also appeared at the ceremony. Army Chief Gen. Qamar Javed Bajwa and Governor Sindh Imran Ismail also attended the final match.

Cancer awareness

International Child Hood Cancer Awareness Day was observed on 15 February with golden ribbon as a theme, while Breast Cancer Awareness Day was observed on 10 March with pink ribbon as a theme. The stadiums were also themed respectively.

League stage

Format

The six teams all played 10 matches each and got 2 points for every win, none for a loss and 1 point for a no result. The top four teams in the group stage qualified for the play-offs.

Points table

• 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;

Summary

• Note: Results listed are according to the home (horizontal) and visitor (vertical) teams.
• Note: Click on a result to see a summary of the match.

League progression

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• Note: The total points at the end of each group match are listed.
• Note: Click on the points (group matches) or W/L (playoffs) to see the match summary.

Fixtures

The complete fixture schedule was released on 13 December 2018. On 3 March 2019, the updated schedule for Pakistan round was released.

• Islamabad United won the toss and elected to field.

• Karachi Kings won the toss and elected to bat.
• Umer Khan (Karachi Kings) and Mohammad Ilyas (Multan Sultans) both made their T20 debuts.

• Quetta Gladiators won the toss and elected to field.

• Multan Sultans won the toss and elected to field.

• Karachi Kings won the toss and elected to field.

• Quetta Gladiators won the toss and elected to field.

• Peshawar Zalmi won the toss and elected to field.

• Quetta Gladiators won the toss and elected to field.

• Karachi Kings won the toss and elected to field.

• Lahore Qalandars won the toss and elected to field.

• Peshawar Zalmi won the toss and elected to field.
• Muhammad Musa (Islamabad United) made his T20 debut.
• Mohammad Sami (Islamabad United) became the first player in the team, and fourth overall in PSL history to take a hat-trick.

• Quetta Gladiators won the toss and elected to field.

• Islamabad United won the toss and elected to field.

• Peshawar Zalmi won the toss and elected to field.

• Karachi Kings won the toss and elected to field.
• Colin Ingram (Karachi Kings) became the first player in the team and the first overseas player to score a century, and the highest individual scorer in the PSL history at that time.

• Multan Sultans won the toss and elected to field.

• Lahore Qalandars won the toss and elected to field.
• Mohammad Hasnain (Quetta Gladiators) made his T20 debut.

• Islamabad United won the toss and elected to field.

• Peshawar Zalmi won the toss and elected to field.

• Karachi Kings won the toss and elected to field.

• Peshawar Zalmi won the toss and elected to field.

• Quetta Gladiators won the toss and elected to field.

• Quetta Gladiators won the toss and elected to field.
• Quetta Gladiators qualified for the playoffs.

• Karachi Kings won the toss and elected to field.
• Multan Sultans were knocked-out of the playoffs.

• Peshawar Zalmi won the toss and elected to field.
• Peshawar Zalmi qualified for the playoffs.

• Peshawar Zalmi's score of 20 at the end of the powerplay equalled the record low total

• Islamabad United won the toss and elected to field.
• Azam Khan (Quetta Gladiators) made his T20 debut.

• Lahore Qalandars won the toss and elected to field.
• Islamabad United qualified for the playoffs.
• Cameron Delport (Islamabad United) scored the fastest century in PSL history at that time.
• Islamabad United made the highest team score in PSL's history.
• Shaheen Afridi (Lahore Qalandars) bowled the most expensive bowling spell (62 runs) in the tournament's history.

Karachi Kings 190/5 (20 overs)	v	Quetta Gladiators 189/7 (20 overs)
Babar Azam 56 (46) Mohammad Hasnain 2/38 (4 overs)		Ahmed Shehzad 99 (57) Umer Khan 3/26 (4 overs)

• Quetta Gladiators won the toss and elected to field.
• Karachi Kings qualified for the playoffs, while Lahore Qalandars were knocked-out of the playoffs.

• Multan Sultans won the toss and elected to field.
• Multan Sultans score of 78 in the powerplay equalled the PSL record at that time

Peshawar Zalmi 203/7 (20 overs)	v	Karachi Kings 142 (16.2 overs)
Kamran Akmal 86 (48) Mohammad Amir 3/24 (4 overs)		Colin Ingram 71 (37) Hasan Ali 3/15 (3.2 overs)

• Karachi Kings won the toss and elected to field.

Playoffs

Qualifier

• Peshawar Zalmi won the toss and elected to field.
• Quetta Gladiators advanced to the final.
• Fawad Ahmed was injured during the match, and went through surgery.
• Shane Watson bowled for the first time since 2018 Indian Premier League.

Eliminators

Eliminator 1

• Karachi Kings won the toss and elected to bat.
• Karachi Kings were eliminated from the tournament.

Eliminator 2

• Islamabad United won the toss and elected to field.
• Peshawar Zalmi advanced to the final while Islamabad United were eliminated from the tournament.

Final

• Quetta Gladiators won the toss and elected to field.

Awards and statistics

Most runs

•   Shane Watson of Quetta Gladiators received the Green Cap.

Most wickets

•   Hasan Ali of Peshawar Zalmi received the Maroon Cap.

See also

• Islamabad United in 2019
• Karachi Kings in 2019
• Lahore Qalandars in 2019
• Multan Sultans in 2019
• Peshawar Zalmi in 2019
• Quetta Gladiators in 2019

Notes

1. ^ All times are in UTC+5 (PST)

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External links

• Official website
• Official partner

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