2018 season | |||
Coach | Aaqib Javed | ||
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Captain | Brendon McCullum | ||
PSL 2018 | 6th | ||
Most runs | Fakhar Zaman (277) [1] | ||
Most wickets | Yasir Shah (11) [2] | ||
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The Lahore Qalandars cricket team is one of six teams that competed in the 2018 Pakistan Super League, representing Lahore, Punjab.
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]
No. | Name | Nationality | Birth date | Batting style | Bowling style | Year signed | Notes |
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Batsmen | |||||||
12 | Cameron Delport | South Africa | 12 May 1989 (aged 28) | Left-handed | Right-arm medium | 2018 | Overseas |
39 | Fakhar Zaman | Pakistan | 10 April 1990 (aged 27) | Left-handed | Left-arm orthodox spin | 2018 | Vice-captain |
42 | Brendon McCullum | New Zealand | 27 September 1981 (aged 36) | Right-handed | Right-arm medium | 2018 | Captain; Overseas |
50 | Chris Lynn | Australia | 10 April 1990 (aged 27) | Right-handed | Slow left-arm orthodox | 2018 | Overseas |
100 | Sohail Akhtar | Pakistan | 2 March 1986 (aged 31) | Right-handed | Right-arm medium | 2018 | |
All-rounders | |||||||
24 | Agha Salman | Pakistan | 23 November 1993 (aged 24) | Right-handed | Right-arm off break | 2018 | |
29 | Anton Devcich | New Zealand | 28 September 1985 (aged 32) | Left-handed | Slow left-arm orthodox | 2018 | Overseas |
31 | Bilal Asif | Pakistan | 24 September 1985 (aged 32) | Right-handed | Right-arm off break | 2018 | |
35 | Aamer Yamin | Pakistan | 26 June 1990 (aged 27) | Right-handed | Right-arm medium-fast | 2017 | |
51 | Bilawal Bhatti | Pakistan | 17 September 1991 (aged 26) | Right-handed | Right-arm fast | 2018 | |
66 | Angelo Mathews | Sri Lanka | 2 June 1987 (aged 30) | Right-handed | Right-arm medium | 2018 | Overseas |
75 | Sunil Narine | West Indies | 26 May 1988 (aged 29) | Left-handed | Right-arm off spin | 2018 | Overseas |
Wicket-keepers | |||||||
15 | Gulraiz Sadaf | Pakistan | 27 December 1989 (aged 28) | Right-handed | — | 2018 | |
33 | Denesh Ramdin | West Indies | 13 March 1985 (aged 32) | Right-handed | — | 2018 | Overseas |
96 | Umar Akmal | Pakistan | 26 May 1990 (aged 27) | Right-handed | Right-arm off spin | 2018 | |
Bowlers | |||||||
10 | Shaheen Afridi | Pakistan | 6 April 2000 (aged 17) | Left-handed | Left-arm fast | 2018 | |
14 | Sohail Khan | Pakistan | 6 March 1984 (aged 33) | Right-handed | Right-arm fast | 2018 | |
21 | Ghulam Mudassar | Pakistan | 20 October 1999 (aged 18) | Right-handed | Left-arm fast-medium | 2018 | |
57 | Kyle Abbott | South Africa | 18 June 1987 (aged 30) | Right-handed | Right-arm fast-medium | 2018 | Overseas |
64 | Imran Khan | Pakistan | 14 July 1988 (aged 29) | Right-handed | Left-arm medium-fast | 2018 | |
81 | Mitchell McClenaghan | New Zealand | 11 June 1986 (aged 31) | Left-handed | Left-arm fast-medium | 2018 | Overseas |
86 | Yasir Shah | Pakistan | 2 May 1986 (aged 31) | Right-handed | Right-arm leg spin | 2018 | |
90 | Mustafizur Rahman | Bangladesh | 6 September 1995 (aged 22) | Left-handed | Left-arm fast | 2018 | Overseas |
99 | Salman Irshad | Pakistan | 12 March 1995 (aged 22) | Right-handed | Right-arm fast | 2018 | |
888 | Raza Hasan | Pakistan | 8 July 1992 (aged 25) | Right-handed | Slow left-arm orthodox | 2018 |
| Playing kit |
Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | NR | Pts | NRR |
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1 | Islamabad United (C) | 10 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 14 | 0.296 |
2 | Karachi Kings (3rd) | 10 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 11 | 0.028 |
3 | Peshawar Zalmi (R) | 10 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 10 | 0.464 |
4 | Quetta Gladiators (4th) | 10 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 10 | 0.312 |
5 | Multan Sultans | 10 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 9 | −0.191 |
6 | Lahore Qalandars | 10 | 3 | 7 | 0 | 6 | −0.931 |
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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