2018 Lahore Qalandars season

Lahore Qalandars
2018 season
CoachAaqib Javed
CaptainBrendon McCullum
PSL 20186th
Most runsFakhar Zaman (277)[1]
Most wicketsYasir 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]

Squad

  • Players with international caps shown in bold
  • Ages given as of the first match of the season, 22 February 2018
No. Name Nationality Birth date Batting style Bowling style Year signed Notes
Batsmen
12 Cameron Delport  South Africa (1989-05-12)12 May 1989 (aged 28) Left-handed Right-arm medium 2018 Overseas
39 Fakhar Zaman  Pakistan (1990-04-10)10 April 1990 (aged 27) Left-handed Left-arm orthodox spin 2018 Vice-captain
42 Brendon McCullum  New Zealand (1981-09-27)27 September 1981 (aged 36) Right-handed Right-arm medium 2018 Captain; Overseas
50 Chris Lynn  Australia (1990-04-10)10 April 1990 (aged 27) Right-handed Slow left-arm orthodox 2018 Overseas
100 Sohail Akhtar  Pakistan (1986-03-02)2 March 1986 (aged 31) Right-handed Right-arm medium 2018
All-rounders
24 Agha Salman  Pakistan (1993-11-23)23 November 1993 (aged 24) Right-handed Right-arm off break 2018
29 Anton Devcich  New Zealand (1985-09-28)28 September 1985 (aged 32) Left-handed Slow left-arm orthodox 2018 Overseas
31 Bilal Asif  Pakistan (1985-09-24)24 September 1985 (aged 32) Right-handed Right-arm off break 2018
35 Aamer Yamin  Pakistan (1990-06-26)26 June 1990 (aged 27) Right-handed Right-arm medium-fast 2017
51 Bilawal Bhatti  Pakistan (1991-09-17)17 September 1991 (aged 26) Right-handed Right-arm fast 2018
66 Angelo Mathews  Sri Lanka (1987-06-02)2 June 1987 (aged 30) Right-handed Right-arm medium 2018 Overseas
75 Sunil Narine  West Indies (1988-05-26)26 May 1988 (aged 29) Left-handed Right-arm off spin 2018 Overseas
Wicket-keepers
15 Gulraiz Sadaf  Pakistan (1989-12-27)27 December 1989 (aged 28) Right-handed — 2018
33 Denesh Ramdin  West Indies (1985-03-13)13 March 1985 (aged 32) Right-handed — 2018 Overseas
96 Umar Akmal  Pakistan (1990-05-26)26 May 1990 (aged 27) Right-handed Right-arm off spin 2018
Bowlers
10 Shaheen Afridi  Pakistan (2000-04-06)6 April 2000 (aged 17) Left-handed Left-arm fast 2018
14 Sohail Khan  Pakistan (1984-03-06)6 March 1984 (aged 33) Right-handed Right-arm fast 2018
21 Ghulam Mudassar  Pakistan (1999-10-20)20 October 1999 (aged 18) Right-handed Left-arm fast-medium 2018
57 Kyle Abbott  South Africa (1987-06-18)18 June 1987 (aged 30) Right-handed Right-arm fast-medium 2018 Overseas
64 Imran Khan  Pakistan (1988-07-14)14 July 1988 (aged 29) Right-handed Left-arm medium-fast 2018
81 Mitchell McClenaghan  New Zealand (1986-06-11)11 June 1986 (aged 31) Left-handed Left-arm fast-medium 2018 Overseas
86 Yasir Shah  Pakistan (1986-05-02)2 May 1986 (aged 31) Right-handed Right-arm leg spin 2018
90 Mustafizur Rahman  Bangladesh (1995-09-06)6 September 1995 (aged 22) Left-handed Left-arm fast 2018 Overseas
99 Salman Irshad  Pakistan (1995-03-12)12 March 1995 (aged 22) Right-handed Right-arm fast 2018
888 Raza Hasan  Pakistan (1992-07-08)8 July 1992 (aged 25) Right-handed Slow left-arm orthodox 2018

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Season standings

Points table

Pos Team
 Pld W L NR Pts NRR
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
Source: ESPNcricinfo
  • The top 4 teams qualified for the playoffs
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  •   Advanced to Eliminator 1

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]

References

  1. ^ "Lahore Qalandars / Most Runs / 2018 season". ESPNCricinfo. Retrieved 20 March 2018.
  2. ^ "Lahore Qalandars / Most Wickets / 2018 season". ESPNCricinfo. Retrieved 20 March 2018.
  3. ^ a b "Pakistan Super League 2018:5 teams players retained list". Dawn News. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
  4. ^ "Akmal's 107* powers Peshawar into knockouts". ESPN. Retrieved 15 September 2020.
  5. ^ "Final lineup of Lahore Qalandars in 2018". Propakistani.pk. Retrieved 15 September 2020.
  6. ^ "Lynn, Tahir headline picks in PSL draft". CricBuzz. 12 November 2017. Retrieved 16 September 2020.
  7. ^ "Lynn set to miss PSL, return to Brisbane". Cricket Australia. Retrieved 15 September 2020.
  8. ^ "PSL 2018: Lahore Qalandars name the replacement for injured Chris Lynn". Cricket Tracker. Retrieved 16 September 2020.