Lahore, 22 May 2025: David Warner-led Karachi Kings are set to face the home team Lahore Qalandars in one of the most crunch fixtures of the HBL PSL X – Eliminator 1 here at the Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore at 7.30pm PKT tonight.
While, Shaheen Shah Afridi’s Lahore Qalandars are on the hunt for their third HBL PSL title, the Kings, who finished fifth in 2023, 2024 and sixth in 2022, have their sights set on a second HBL PSL title.
The two teams have faced each other HBL PSL history 21 times with Karachi Kings winning 14 matches, while Qalandars have won only seven.
In the ongoing season, both the teams have won one each in the league-stage as the 15 April game at the National Bank Stadium saw Qalandars winning by a thumping 65-run margin. In the second clash of the season Karachi Kings outfoxed Qalandars in a rain-hit 15-over fixture by four wickets.
For the Kings, James Vince has been one of the star performers having accumulated 374 runs in 10 matches at a strike rate of 152 and with the ball Mohammad Abbas Afridi has eked out 17 scalps – the most so far in the season, in as many matches.
Fakhar Zaman has been the lynchpin of Lahore’s batting with 369 runs at a strike rate of 155, while Haris Rauf has taken 12 wickets.
The high-stakes Eliminators 1 tonight will see one of the teams facing Islamabad United tomorrow, while the loser’s campaign will come to an end.
