PSL Pakistan Super League Overview | Stats and Records | Teams | Format

Introduction

PSL is organized by Pakistan. It is franchise cricket league administrated by PCB Pakistan Cricket Board. It was started back in 2016 to promote cricket activities in Pakistan. PSL was firstly played in UAE, due to security issues in Pakistan. Now it is moved completely in Pakistan. PSL consists of total six teams till now. Lahore, Karachi, Peshawar, Quetta and Multan, these are the cities who’s name is associated with team names.

Tournament format:

It is played double round-robin format. Each team plays twice with other four teams. Top four teams on points table plays playoffs. Two points are awarded to winning team. Method of ranking teams on points table is according to their points and run rate. If a two or more teams have same point, then they will be sorted run rate wise.

Names of PSL teams:

PSL contains six teams associated with six cities of Pakistan. Firstly, there were five teams and one more team (Multan Sultans) was added later. Names PSL franchises are listed below:

1. Karachi Kings
2. Multan Sultans
3. Quetta Gladiators
4. Lahore Qalandars
5. Peshawar Zalmi
6. Islamabad United

Karachi Kings:

Karachi Kings is named and based with Karachi city of Pakistan. Its owner is Salman Iqbal, who is owner of ARY group. Imad Wasim is captain of Karachi Kings and John Botha is coach. It was most expensive team of PSL.

Multan Sultans:

Multan Sultans based by Punjab city Multan. Its owner is Ali Tareen s/o Jahangir Tareen who is politician in Pakistan. It was sixth team added later in PSL. Muhammad Rizwan is captain of Multan Sultans and coach is Andy Flower.

Quetta Gladiators:

Quetta Gladiators is named by Quetta city of Baluchistan, Pakistan. Quetta Gladiators is captained by Sarfraz Ahmad and coach is Moin Khan former Pakistani test player. It is owned by Nadeem Omar.

Lahore Qalandars:

Lahore Qalandars is based with Lahore city of Punjab, Pakistan. Its owner is Fawad Rana and captained by Shaheen Shah Afridi. Former Pakistani cricketer Aqib javed is coach of Lahore Qalandars. It is very famous franchise of PSL. It has large number of fans.

Peshawar Zalmi:

Peshawar Zalmi is named by KPK city Peshawar. Its owner is Javed Afridi. Babar Azam is now captain of Peshawar Zalmi. Their head coach is Daren Sammy former cricketer of West Indies. Peshawar Zalmi has large number of fan base.

Islamabad United:

Pakistan’s Capital Islamabad is base of Islamabad United. Shadab Khan is captain of Islamabad United. Azhar Mehmodd is head coach of Islamabad United. Islamabad United home ground is located in Rawalpindi know as Pindi Cricket Stadium.

PSL every season Winners and Runner Up:

PSL 2016 champions were Islamabad United and runner up was Quetta Gladiators. Ravi Bopara was player of the tournament. PSL 2017 Champions were Peshawar Zalmi and runner up was Quetta Gladiators. Kamran Akmal was player of the tournament. PSL 2018 was hosted in Pakistan and UAE. Champions were Islamabad United and runner up was Peshawar Zalmi. Luke Ronchi was announced player of tournament also most run scorer of PSL 2018. PSL 2019 was played in Pakistan and UAE organized by PCB. This time Quetta Gladiators was champions after becoming two time runner up.

Peshawar Zalmi like PSL 2018 again ended their campaign at second position. After four unsuccessful PSL season, finally Karachi Kings became champion of PSL 2020. They beat Lahore Qalandars in final of PSL 2020. Babar Azam was player of the tournament also highest run scorer of PSL 2020. PSL 2021 was played in UAE and Pakistan. This time there were new champion. Multan Sultans grabbed first title of their PSL journey. Peshawar Zalmi one time champions second the table. Sohaib Maqsood was declared player of the tournament and Babar Azam was top run scorer.

For first time whole PSL 2022 was played in Pakistan. Lahore Qalandars won first title of PSL. Shaheen Shah Afridi was leading the Lahore squad. PSL 2021 champions this time ended their tournament at second spot. Muhammd Rizwan was player of the tournament and Fakhar Zaman was top run scorer with Shaheen leading wicket taker of season. PSL 2023 is stared from 13 February, which will be played in Pakistan. Six teams participating in tournament for title.

PSL stats:

Highest run scorer of all seasons:

Batter	Matches	Innings	Runs	Highest in an inning
Baber Azam	71	69	2509	90*
Fakher Zaman	66	66	2042	106
Shoaib Malik	76	72	2033	73
Kamra Akmal	75	74	1972	107*
M. Rizwan	64	53	1775	110*

 

Highest wicket taker of all seasons:

Bowler	Matches	Wickets
Wahab Riaz	81	105
Hasan Ali	66	87
Shaheen Shah Afridi	53	75
Shadab Khan	65	69
Faheem Ashraf	53	66

 

Highest runs in a season:

Batter	Match	Innings	Avg.	Runs	PSL (year)
Fakhar Zaman	13	13	45	588	2022
Babar Azam	11	11	69	554	2021
Babar Azam	12	12	59	473	2020
Shane Watson	12	12	43	430	2019
Luke Ronchi	11	11	43	435	2018
Kamran Akmal	11	11	32	353	2017
Umar Akmal	7	7	84	335	2016

 

Highest wicket takers in a season:

Bowler	Team	Wickets	PSL (year)
Andre Russell	Islamabad United	16	2016
Sohail Khan	Karachi Kings	16	2017
Faheem Ashraf/ Wahab Riaz	Islamabad United/ Peshawar Zalmi	18/18	2018
Hassan Ali	Peshawar Zalmi	25	2019
Shaheen Shah Afridi	Lahore Qalandars	17	2020
Shahnawaz Dahani	Multan Sultans	20	2021
Shaheen Shah Afridi	Lahore Qalandars	20	2022

 

Highest individual score in an innings:

Batter	Opponent Team	Runs	Balls
Colin Munro	Quetta Gladiator	124*	59
Cameron Delport	Lahore Qalandars	117*	60
Sharjeel Khan	Peshawar Zalmi	117	62
Martin Guptill	Karachi Kings	117	67
Jason Roy	Lahore Qalandars	116	57
Note: “ * ” means not out in inning

 

Best bowling figure in a season:

Bowler	Wickets	PSL (year)
Ravi Bopara	6 for 16 runs	2016
Sohail Khan	3 for 23 runs	2017
Umar Gul	6 for 24 runs	2018
Faheem Ashraf	6 for 19 runs	2019
Samit Patel	4 for 5 runs	2020
Rashid Khan	5 for 20 runs	2021
Naseem Shah	5 for 20 runs	2022

 

PSL 2023:

As PSL season 8 is being played. Here are some initial updates for highest wicket taker and most run scorer.

Most run scorer:

Muhammd Rizwan representing Multan Sultans is most run scorer of PSL 8 (currently). Rizwan scored 358 runs at average of 89.50 in 6 matches.

Highest wicket taker:

Ihsanullah is highest wicket taker representing Multan Sultans (currently). He has taken 14 wickets in 6 matches with economy of 5.54.

Highest individual run scorer:

Martin Guptill has highest individual score in PSL 8. He played ininnings of 117 of 67 balls against Karachi Kings.

Best bowling figure:

Ihsanullah has the best bowling figure for PSL 8. He took 5 wickets for 12 runs against Quetta Gladiators at Multan Cricket stadium.

Conclusion

If you find any wrong figures/stats kindly tell us in comments! Which team you are supporting in PSL 2023? My favourtie is Lahore Qalandars because there is Shaheen Shah Afridi in squad who is also leading.