Karachi Kings 121 for 3 (Seifert 49, Malik 27*) beat Quetta Gladiators 118 (Shakeel 33, Hasan 4-15) by seven wickets
Hasan different his tempo to bowl out Quetta for this season’s lowest whole of 118 in 19.1 overs after captain Shan Masood gained the toss and elected to discipline.
Karachi cruised to 121 for 3 with greater than 4 overs to spare with opening batter Tim Siefert (49) notching the high rating of the recreation.
Quetta are nonetheless amongst the high two with 9 factors from seven matches whereas Karachi are at No. 5 with six factors from three wins and 4 defeats.
Blessing Muzarabani (2-27) gave Karachi an early breakthrough when Jason Roy (15) top-edged the tall Zimbabwean quick bowler to Hasan at third man in the third over.
Hasan then struck twice in his first over when Saud Shakeel (33) and Khawaja Nafay (17) holed out in the deep as Quetta slipped to 68 for 3 in the ninth over.
Former Quetta captain Sarfaraz Ahmed’s struggling season continued as he was run out for 7 in a mix-up with new skipper Rilee Rossouw whereas going for a decent single.
Sarfaraz, who was relieved of the captaincy after Quetta didn’t obtained past the league stage in the final 4 seasons, had scored solely 22 runs in 5 innings.
Rossouw additionally could not speed up in opposition to tempo and spin in the center overs earlier than holing out in leg-spinner Zahid Mahmood’s (2-25) return spell. Hasan then rattled the decrease order together with his change of tempo and claimed two extra wickets in his final over.
Masood’s run of poor kind continued in his first season as the Karachi skipper edged Mohammad Amir in the second over when on 7.
However Karachi’s abroad signings Seifert and James Vince (27) performed confidently in opposition to tempo and have been hardly troubled by thriller spinner Usman Tariq. Quetta was additionally wasteful in the discipline with Sherfane Rutherford and Amir dropping sitters in the outfield.
Seifert smashed six fours and two sixes earlier than he missed out on the half century and was stumped however veteran Shoaib Malik carried Karachi to a convincing victory with an unbeaten 27 off 20 balls.
