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Peshawar Zalmi's players celebrate after sending Gladiators' batter to Pavelian during PSL 9 match on March 8, 2024. — PCB
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LAHORE: Quetta Gladiators face Peshawar Zalmi in the 17th important encounter of 2025 on Sunday (today), in which both teams are desperate to climb half of the points table at the famous Gudafi Stadium in Lahore in the evening.
The Quetta Gladiators will gain confidence in a comprehensive victory of 80 runs against Peshawar Zalmi in their season opener.
The dominant performance, which showed Quetta’s all -round capabilities, provides them with a psychological edge in today’s confrontation.
“We know what we are capable of when we play according to our abilities,” said Richards, a team patron.
“This first match against Zalmi was a map of how we want to turn to our cricket, and we want to copy that performance.”
Quetta Gladiators have a roller coaster tournament so far. After his strong launch against Peshawar, he has failed to maintain consistency, especially in his batting department.
His recent narrow victory against the Karachi kings, however, where he defended 142, he has created a fresh belief in the squad.
Captain Saud Shakeel’s shape will be important in the upper part of the order, while Sri Lankan star Kosal Mendes and former South African military rally provides international experience. The bowling attack led by Sada Bihar Muhammad Amir and completed by Abu Ahmed’s mystery spin is the strongest case.
In the meantime, Peshawar Zalmi has suffered a difficult campaign, and so far lost three of its four matches.
His only victory-winning commanding of 120 runs against the Multan Sultans showed his abilities, but he has struggled to speed up the pace.
The fortunes of the yellow storm are largely dependent on their amulet batsman Babar Azam, which has been a constant mood without explosives.
The aggressive Mohammed Herses has added strength to the middle order, while abroad pacers Luke Wood and Alzari Joseph have led a bowling attack that shows talent shine, but lacks consistency in the death overs.
For Quetta, Abrar Ahmed has emerged as his Trump card, taking wickets permanently in the middle overs and stopping the opposition batsmen. Fahim Ashraf’s recent batting heroes against Karachi Kings have made them a player to see them.
Peshawar will look at Babar Azam to anchor his innings, but if he wants to post or chase a competitive total against Quetta’s disciplinary bowling unit, he will need an explosive partnership of Muhammad Harsh and Hussein Talat.
Gaddafi Stadium Pitch has traditionally supported the batsmen with the least help for the batsmen.
Statistics show that teams have won 60 % of the recent T20 matches here, with the first innings score of 175.
The weather situation is expected to be ideal for cricket, which is the least likely of temperatures and rainfall around the twentieth (Celsius).
The competition offers an interesting strategy war between Quetta’s high bowling attack and Peshawar’s high -ranking batting lineup.
Peshawar batsmen, especially Babar Azam, Abrar Ahmed and Mohammad Amir discuss the threat that they can prove to be decisive.
On the contrary, if there is a contradictory batting line -up fault against Quetta’s Wood and Joseph’s fast pair, Peshawar can twist the tables on its opponents well.
Given their recent form, head -to -head advantage, and more balanced squad, Quetta Gladiators enter the competition as a modest favorite.
Their bowling attack gives them a edge, which is expected to have a high scoring pitch at Gaddafi Stadium.
The toss can play an important role, with the team to win, it is likely that they will choose the first batting to take advantage of the favorable conditions and pressure the chasing aspects. Cricket enthusiasts are expected to expect a high scoring encounter with many limits and strategies, as both teams aim to secure key points in search of play -off births in PSL 2025.
