Preparations for remaining matches of PSL 6 enters in final stages

KARACHI (92 News) - The preparations for remaining matches of the Pakistan Super League (PSL) sixth edition has entered in final stages as Abu Dhabi’s Sheikh Zayed Stadium will host 20 remaining matches of the PSL in next month.

Two Sri Lankan players Seekkuge Prasanna and Thisara Perera arrived in Pakistan. Players from all franchises reported in the BioSecure Bubble at hotels in Karachi and Lahore.

There will be held corona testing and vaccination today and tomorrow. The players and match officials will leave for Abu Dhabi on May 26.

The picturesque stadium will host 20 matches of PSL 6, which will mark the second instance of the venue staging PSL games.

It was during the 2019 edition when the stadium hosted the PSL for the first time when four league matches of the fourth season were played.

Quetta Gladiators, the champions of the 2019 edition, consolidated their position for the PSL 2019 playoffs with two comprehensive wins against Peshawar Zalmi and Islamabad United by eight wickets and 43 runs, respectively.

Karachi Kings downed Multan Sultans by five wickets and Zalmi thumped Lahore Qalandars by four wickets in the other two matches.

Gladiators’ 180 for nine against United is the highest PSL team total at the venue and Sultans’ 118 for seven against Kings is the lowest.

Shane Watson’s electrifying 91 not out off 55 balls – studded with six sixes and as many fours – for the Gladiators against Zalmi is the highest PSL individual score at the venue.

Kings’ pacer Usman Shinwari, who is representing the Gladiators this season, returned figures of four for 15 against Sultans while United’s Faheem Ashraf took four wickets for 18 runs against the Gladiators in his side’s 43-run loss.

In the Sheikh Zayed Stadium’s PSL debut, Gladiators took on Zalmi in the 23rd match of the season.