2019 Pakistan Super League
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| Dates | 14 February – 17 March 2019 |
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| Administrator(s) | Pakistan Cricket Board |
| Cricket format | Twenty20 |
| Tournament format(s) | Double round robin and playoffs |
| Host(s) |  United Arab Emirates Pakistan |
| Participants | 6 |
| Matches | 34 |
| Official website | psl-t20.com |
2019 Pakistan Super League (also known as PSL 4 or for sponsorship reasons HBL PSL 2019) is 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, currently taking place from 14 February until 17 March 2019, will have a total of 34 matches being played.[1]
Background
On 10 November 2018, PCB terminated franchise agreements with the owner of Multan Sultans, Schön Properties.[2] Ali Khan Tareen is the new owner of the team.[3][4] On 14 November, PCB announced that HBL Pakistan has renewed its partnership with PSL for 3 more years till 2021.[5] 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.[6][7]
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.[8]
In case of India the broadcasting rights were given to DSports which partnered with Daily Fantasy Site, MyTeam11, to co-present PSL in India.[9][10]
Teams and squads
Each franchise retained up to 10 players[11] during the trade and retention window that started on 29 September.[12] A squad of 16 players, with 4 supplementary players,[13][14] was then completed in players draft held at Islamabad on 20 November.[15] On 16 December 2018, PSL announced that each team will have additional budget to select 21-member squad.[16] The replacement draft was held on 24 January in Lahore.[17]
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.[18] The new PCB chairman Ehsan Mani announced on 15 September that tournament will start from 14 February 2019 in UAE, and the last eight games will be held in Pakistan along with the final that will be played on 17 March in Karachi.[1] For the first time, four matches will be played in Abu Dhabi.[19] Originally, three matches were scheduled to be played in Lahore, but due to security concerns after the tension between Pakistan and India, PCB decided to shift these matches to Karachi.[20][21] PCB Chairman Ehsan Mani said, "Due to the recent and prevailing uncertainty, we felt it critical to make a decisive decision at this juncture." He regretted that that the "headquarters of Pakistan cricket will be unable to host the PSL matches in 2019 due to no fault of the PCB".[22]
 United Arab Emirates
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| Dubai | Sharjah | Abu Dhabi | Karachi | |
| Dubai International Cricket Stadium | Sharjah Cricket Stadium | Sheikh Zayed Cricket Stadium | National Stadium | |
| Capacity: 25,000 | Capacity: 17,000[23] | Capacity: 20,000 | Capacity: 34,228 | |
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Match officials
Umpires
Referees
Mohammad Anees
Roshan Mahanama- Javed Malik
Promotion in media
The league has been 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.[27][28] 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.[29][30][31][32]
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,[33] however, later he withdrew due to a technical fault in his plane's engine.[34]
Commentators
Experts
League stage
Format
The six teams will play 10 matches each and will get 2 points for every win, none for a loss and 1 point for a no result. The top four team in the group stage will qualify for the play-offs.
Points table
| Team | P | W | L | T | NR | Pts | NRR |
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| Template:Cr-PSL | 9 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 14 | +0.423 |
| Template:Cr-PSL | 9 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 12 | +0.566 |
| Template:Cr-PSL | 9 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 8 | –0.139 |
| Template:Cr-PSL | 8 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 8 | –0.459 |
| Template:Cr-PSL | 8 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 6 | –0.304 |
| Template:Cr-PSL | 9 | 2 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 4 | –0.145 |
- Source: ESPNcricinfo, Last updated on 6 March 2019[a]
- The top 4 teams will qualify for the playoffs
- Did not qualify for the playoffs
- Advanced to Qualifier
- Advanced to Eliminator 1
Summary
| Visitor team → | IU | KK | LQ | MS | PZ | QG |
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| Islamabad United | Islamabad 7 wickets | Islamabad 5 wickets | Multan 5 wickets | Islamabad 12 runs | Quetta 7 wickets | |
| Karachi Kings | Islamabad 5 wickets | Lahore 22 runs | Karachi 7 runs | Peshawar 61 runs | Karachi 1 run | |
| Lahore Qalandars | Islamabad 49 runs | Karachi 5 wickets | Multan 7 wickets | Peshawar 7 wickets | Lahore 8 wickets | |
| Multan Sultans | Multan 6 wickets | Karachi 5 wickets | Lahore 6 wickets | Peshawar 5 wickets | Quetta 6 wickets | |
| Peshawar Zalmi | Peshawar 4 wickets | Peshawar 44 runs | Peshawar 4 wickets | Peshawar 7 wickets | Quetta 6 wickets | |
| Quetta Gladiators | Quetta 43 runs | Karachi 6 wickets | Quetta 3 wickets | Quetta 8 wickets | Quetta 8 wickets |
| Home team won | Visitor team won |
- 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
| Team | Group matches | Playoffs | |||||||||||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | E1/Q | E2 | F | |
| Islamabad United | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 10 | W | L | |
| Karachi Kings | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 8 | 10 | 10 | L | ||
| Lahore Qalandars | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | |||
| Multan Sultans | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 6 | |||
| Peshawar Zalmi | 0 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 8 | 10 | 10 | 12 | 14 | L | W | L |
| Quetta Gladiators | 2 | 4 | 6 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 10 | 12 | 14 | 14 | W | W | |
| Win | Loss | No result |
- 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 was released on 13 December 2018.[38][a] On 3 March 2019, the updated schedule for Pakistan round was released.[22]
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171/8 (20 overs) |
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177/5 (19.2 overs) |
- Islamabad United won the toss and elected to field.
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183/6 (20 overs) |
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176/9 (20 overs) |
- Karachi Kings won the toss and elected to bat.
- Umer Khan (Karachi Kings) and Mohammad Ilyas (Multan Sultans) both made their T20 debuts.
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155/4 (20 overs) |
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161/4 (19.4 overs) |
- Quetta Gladiators won the toss and elected to field.
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125/7 (20 overs) |
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126/5 (18.4 overs) |
- Multan Sultans won the toss and elected to field.
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138/6 (20 overs) |
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116 (19.5 overs) |
- Karachi Kings won the toss and elected to field.
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157/8 (20 overs) |
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161/3 (18.2 overs) |
- Quetta Gladiators won the toss and elected to field.
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78 (15.1 overs) |
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81/3 (10.1 overs) |
- Peshawar Zalmi won the toss and elected to field.
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160/9 (20 overs) |
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161/2 (18.2 overs) |
- Quetta Gladiators won the toss and elected to field.
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153/8 (20 overs) |
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109/9 (20 overs) |
- Karachi Kings won the toss and elected to field.
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200/6 (20 overs) |
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204/4 (20 overs) |
- Lahore Qalandars won the toss and elected to field.
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158/9 (20 overs) |
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146 (19.4 overs) |
- 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.[39][40]
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143/7 (20 overs) |
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148/7 (20 overs) |
- Quetta Gladiators won the toss and elected to field.
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143/6 (20 overs) |
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147/3 (16.1 over) |
- Islamabad United won the toss and elected to field.
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145 (20 overs) |
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146/5 (19.4 overs) |
- Peshawar Zalmi won the toss and elected to field.
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186/5 (20 overs) |
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188/4 (18.4 overs) |
- 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 history of PSL at that time.[41]
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121 (17.4 overs) |
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122/4 (18.1 overs) |
- Multan Sultans won the toss and elected to field.
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106 (19.1 overs) |
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107/2 (16.3 overs) |
- Lahore Qalandars won the toss and elected to field.
- Mohammad Hasnain (Quetta Gladiators) made his T20 debut.
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168/8 (20 overs) |
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169/5 (19.2 overs) |
- Islamabad United won the toss and elected to field.
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172/5 (20 overs) |
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176/3 (19.2 overs) |
- Peshawar Zalmi won the toss and elected to field.
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133/5 (20 overs) |
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134/5 (19.1 overs) |
- Karachi Kings won the toss and elected to field.
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176 (20 overs) |
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177/6 (20 overs) |
- Peshawar Zalmi won the toss and elected to field.
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121 (20 overs) |
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122/4 (19 overs) |
- Quetta Gladiators won the toss and elected to field.
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165/4 (20 overs) |
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166/2 (17.4 overs) |
- Quetta Gladiators won the toss and elected to field.
- Quetta Gladiators qualified for the playoffs.[42]
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118/7 (20 overs) |
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120/5 (19.2 overs) |
- Karachi Kings won the toss and elected to field.
- Multan Sultans were knocked-out of the playoffs.[43]
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124/7 (20 overs) |
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125/6 (19.5 overs) |
- Peshawar Zalmi won the toss and elected to field.
- Peshawar Zalmi qualified for the playoffs.[44]
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180/9 (20 overs) |
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137/9 (20 overs) |
- Islamabad United won the toss and elected to field.
- Azam Khan (Quetta Gladiators) made his T20 debut.
Playoffs
Qualifier
Eliminators
Eliminator 1
Eliminator 2
Final
Awards and statistics
Most runs
| Player | Team | Mat | Inns | Runs | Ave | SR | HS | 100 | 50 | 4s | 6s | |||||||||||||||
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 Shane Watson
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Template:Cr-PSL | 9 | 9 | 332 | 47.42 | 141.27 | 91* | 0 | 3 | 36 | 15 | |||||||||||||||
 Luke Ronchi
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Template:Cr-PSL | 9 | 9 | 292 | 41.71 | 163.12 | 67* | 0 | 3 | 32 | 16 | |||||||||||||||
 Liam Livingstone
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Template:Cr-PSL | 8 | 8 | 280 | 40.00 | 134.61 | 82 | 0 | 3 | 20 | 14 | |||||||||||||||
| Shoaib Malik
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Template:Cr-PSL | 9 | 9 | 266 | 44.33 | 116.15 | 53 | 0 | 2 | 16 | 9 | |||||||||||||||
 Rilee Rossouw
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Template:Cr-PSL | 9 | 9 | 235 | 33.57 | 136.62 | 67* | 0 | 1 | 29 | 4 | |||||||||||||||
Source: ESPNcricinfo.com, Last updated: 4 March 2019
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Most wickets
| Player | Team | Mat | Inns | Wkts | Ave | Econ | BBI | SR | 4WI | 5WI | ||||||||||||||
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| Hasan Ali
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Template:Cr-PSL | 9 | 9 | 18 | 12.72 | 6.54 | 4/15 | 11.6 | 3 | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| Faheem Ashraf
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Template:Cr-PSL | 9 | 9 | 13 | 18.07 | 7.30 | 4/18 | 14.8 | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| Sohail Tanvir
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Template:Cr-PSL | 8 | 8 | 12 | 16.66 | 6.45 | 4/21 | 15.5 | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| Haris Rauf
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Template:Cr-PSL | 7 | 7 | 11 | 15.45 | 6.80 | 4/23 | 13.6 | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| Wahab Riaz
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Template:Cr-PSL | 8 | 8 | 10 | 22.40 | 7.26 | 4/21 | 18.5 | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||||
Source: ESPNcricinfo.com, Last updated : 4 March 2019
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Notes
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