2018 Lahore Qalandars season

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Lahore Qalandars
2018 season
Coach Aaqib Javed
Captain Brendon McCullum
PSL 2018 6th
Most runs Fakhar Zaman (277) [1]
Most wickets Yasir Shah (11) [2]

The Lahore Qalandars cricket team is one of six teams that competed in the 2018 Pakistan Super League, representing Lahore, Punjab.

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Team management retained Brendon McCullum as their captain. [3] They finished sixth in the season after winning only three of their ten matches, and as a result, were eliminated in the group stage for the third consecutive year. [4]

Squad

No.NameNationalityBirth dateBatting styleBowling styleYear signedNotes
Batsmen
12 Cameron Delport Flag of South Africa.svg  South Africa 12 May 1989 (aged 28)Left-handedRight-arm medium2018Overseas
39 Fakhar Zaman Flag of Pakistan.svg  Pakistan 10 April 1990 (aged 27)Left-handedLeft-arm orthodox spin2018 Vice-captain
42 Brendon McCullum Flag of New Zealand.svg  New Zealand 27 September 1981 (aged 36)Right-handedRight-arm medium2018 Captain; Overseas
50 Chris Lynn Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia 10 April 1990 (aged 27)Right-handedSlow left-arm orthodox2018Overseas
100 Sohail Akhtar Flag of Pakistan.svg  Pakistan 2 March 1986 (aged 31)Right-handedRight-arm medium2018
All-rounders
24 Agha Salman Flag of Pakistan.svg  Pakistan 23 November 1993 (aged 24)Right-handedRight-arm off break2018
29 Anton Devcich Flag of New Zealand.svg  New Zealand 28 September 1985 (aged 32)Left-handedSlow left-arm orthodox2018Overseas
31 Bilal Asif Flag of Pakistan.svg  Pakistan 24 September 1985 (aged 32)Right-handedRight-arm off break2018
35 Aamer Yamin Flag of Pakistan.svg  Pakistan 26 June 1990 (aged 27)Right-handedRight-arm medium-fast2017
51 Bilawal Bhatti Flag of Pakistan.svg  Pakistan 17 September 1991 (aged 26)Right-handedRight-arm fast2018
66 Angelo Mathews Flag of Sri Lanka.svg  Sri Lanka 2 June 1987 (aged 30)Right-handedRight-arm medium2018Overseas
75 Sunil Narine WestIndiesCricketFlagPre1999.svg  West Indies 26 May 1988 (aged 29)Left-handedRight-arm off spin2018Overseas
Wicket-keepers
15 Gulraiz Sadaf Flag of Pakistan.svg  Pakistan 27 December 1989 (aged 28)Right-handed2018
33 Denesh Ramdin WestIndiesCricketFlagPre1999.svg  West Indies 13 March 1985 (aged 32)Right-handed2018Overseas
96 Umar Akmal Flag of Pakistan.svg  Pakistan 26 May 1990 (aged 27)Right-handedRight-arm off spin2018
Bowlers
10 Shaheen Afridi Flag of Pakistan.svg  Pakistan 6 April 2000 (aged 17)Left-handedLeft-arm fast2018
14 Sohail Khan Flag of Pakistan.svg  Pakistan 6 March 1984 (aged 33)Right-handedRight-arm fast2018
21 Ghulam Mudassar Flag of Pakistan.svg  Pakistan 20 October 1999 (aged 18)Right-handedLeft-arm fast-medium2018
57 Kyle Abbott Flag of South Africa.svg  South Africa 18 June 1987 (aged 30)Right-handedRight-arm fast-medium2018Overseas
64 Imran Khan Flag of Pakistan.svg  Pakistan 14 July 1988 (aged 29)Right-handedLeft-arm medium-fast2018
81 Mitchell McClenaghan Flag of New Zealand.svg  New Zealand 11 June 1986 (aged 31)Left-handedLeft-arm fast-medium2018Overseas
86 Yasir Shah Flag of Pakistan.svg  Pakistan 2 May 1986 (aged 31)Right-handedRight-arm leg spin2018
90 Mustafizur Rahman Flag of Bangladesh.svg  Bangladesh 6 September 1995 (aged 22)Left-handedLeft-arm fast2018Overseas
99 Salman Irshad Flag of Pakistan.svg  Pakistan 12 March 1995 (aged 22)Right-handedRight-arm fast2018
888 Raza Hasan Flag of Pakistan.svg  Pakistan 8 July 1992 (aged 25)Right-handedSlow left-arm orthodox2018

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Season standings

Points table

PosTeamPldWLNRPts NRR
1 Islamabad United (C)10730140.296
2 Karachi Kings (3rd)10541110.028
3 Peshawar Zalmi (R)10550100.464
4 Quetta Gladiators (4th)10550100.312
5 Multan Sultans 104519−0.191
6 Lahore Qalandars 103706−0.931
Source: ESPNcricinfo

Season summary

Before, 2018 PSL players draft, team management had to retain maximum of ten players in their squad, and they retained Sunil Narine, Umar Akmal, Brendon McCullum, Yasir Shah, Sohail Khan, Cameron Delport, Aamer Yamin, Bilawal Bhatti and previous season's leading runs-scorer for the team Fakhar Zaman. Ghulam Mudassar was retained as team's emerging player. [3]

At the players draft, held in Lahore, they managed to picked some good local and International players in their squad. Australia's Explosive opener, Chris Lynn was their first pick of the night, along with Angelo Mathews, Mitchell McClenaghan and Mustafizur Rahman and Pakistani players like Shaheen Afridi and Bilal Asif were also picked. [5] [6] However, few days before the season started, it was announced that Chris Lynn has suffered a shoulder injury, therefore, he was unavailable for the entire season. [7] He was replaced by South Africa's Kyle Abbott. [8]

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