Karachi Kings will face Peshawar Zalmi in the 11th match of the PSL 2022 on Friday, 4 February. The match, scheduled at Karachi’s National Stadium, will start at 7:30 pm PST.
Karachi Kings and Peshawar Zalmi have had a poor start to PSL 7 and both teams will be determined to get back on the right track in tonight’s bottom-of-the-table encounter.
Karachi currently sit at the foot of the table with no wins in their three matches while Peshawar are at the fifth spot after one win in three matches. A win for Peshawar tonight will take them up to the fourth spot ahead of Quetta while Karachi can leapfrog Peshawar if they manage to win their first match of the tournament.
Karachi have had a horrid start to their campaign with three consecutive losses and things are not going to get much easier as two of their most potent bowlers Mohammad Amir and Mohammad Ilyas have been ruled out of the tournament due to injury. Karachi will be looking to improve in all three departments as their batters have not been able to score heavily and their bowling has looked lackluster throughout the tournament as well. They would need to find some solutions quickly in a must-win match for them.
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Peshawar, on the other hand, have not yet been able to get the right team combination. If they manage to sort out this issue then they can get back to their best in no time. They will be banking on their explosive top order to fire and hand their bowlers a big total to work with. Zalmi need their experienced players, Wahab Riaz, Shoaib Malik, and Kamran Akmal to step up. With the imminent arrival of Saqib Mahmood and Liam Livingstone, Peshawar do possess one of the strongest squads in the league.
Both the teams are expected to make a few changes to their line-ups. Karachi will be forced to make at least one change as Mohammad Ilyas will not feature for them this season. Usman Shinwari is expected to get into the team at his expense. Rohail Nazir, Ian Cockbain, and Talha Ahsan are the other likely changes that will take place. Zalmi too will look to make some changes with pacer Arshad Iqbal likely to come into the line-up to bolster the fast bowling attack.
