2019 Peshawar Zalmi season

The Peshawar Zalmi is a franchise cricket team that represents Peshawar in the Pakistan Super League. They were one of the six teams that participated in the 2019 season.

Peshawar Zalmi

2019 season
Coach	Mohammad Akram
Captain	Darren Sammy
PSL 2019	Runners-up[1][2]
Most runs	Kamran Akmal (357)[3]
Most wickets	Hasan Ali (25)[4]
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The team was captained by Darren Sammy, coached by Mohammad Akram. They finished off as Runners-up for the second consecutive season after losing in the final against Quetta Gladiators.^[1][5][2] They finished first after the completion of their group stage matches, winning seven matches from their ten matches.^[6]

Kamran Akmal was the team's best batsman with 357 runs from 13 matches.^[3] Hasan Ali was the team's best bowler with 25 wickets across 13 matches. He was also the leading wicket-taker of the tournament and hence, won the Maroon Cap and Fazal Mehmood award for best bowler of the season. ^[4]

Squad

• Players with international caps are shown in bold
• Ages are given as of the first match of the season, 14 February 2019

No.	Name	Nationality	Birth date	Batting style	Bowling style	Year signed	Notes
Batsmen
22	Misbah-ul-Haq	Pakistan	(1974-05-28)28 May 1974 (aged 44)	Right-handed	Right-arm leg break	2018	Captain
26	Imam-ul-Haq	Pakistan	(1995-12-12)12 December 1995 (aged 23)	Left-handed	—	2019
92	Sohaib Maqsood	Pakistan	(1987-04-15)15 April 1987 (aged 31)	Right-handed	Right-arm off break	2018
	Lendl Simmons	West Indies	(1985-01-25)25 January 1985 (aged 34)	Right-handed	Right-arm medium fast	2019	Overseas
	Nabi Gul	Pakistan	(1997-10-05)5 October 1997 (aged 21)	Right-handed	—	2019
	Samiullah	Pakistan	(1996-11-11)11 November 1996 (aged 22)	Right-handed	—	2019
	Dawid Malan	England	(1987-09-03)3 September 1987 (aged 31)	Left-handed		2019	Overseas
All-rounders
4	Khalid Usman	Pakistan	(1986-03-01)1 March 1986 (aged 32)	Right-handed	Slow left-arm orthodox	2018
7	Liam Dawson	England	(1990-03-01)1 March 1990 (aged 28)	Right-handed	Slow left-arm orthodox	2018	Overseas
55	Kieron Pollard	West Indies	(1987-05-12)12 May 1987 (aged 31)	Right-handed	Right-arm medium-fast	2018	Overseas
88	Darren Sammy	West Indies	(1983-12-20)20 December 1983 (aged 35)	Right-handed	Right-arm medium-fast	2019	Overseas; Captain
200	Umar Amin	Pakistan	(1989-10-16)16 October 1989 (aged 29)	Left-handed	Right-arm medium	2019
	Wayne Madsen	England	(1985-01-02)2 January 1985 (aged 34)	Right-handed	Right-arm off-break	2019	Overseas
Wicket-keepers
23	Kamran Akmal	Pakistan	(1982-01-13)13 January 1982 (aged 37)	Right-handed	—	2018
72	Andre Fletcher	West Indies	(1987-11-28)28 November 1987 (aged 31)	Right-handed	—	2019	Overseas
	Jamal Anwar	Pakistan	(1990-12-31)31 December 1990 (aged 28)	Right-handed	—	2019
Bowlers
7	Tymal Mills	England	(1992-08-12)12 August 1992 (aged 26)	Right-handed	Left-arm fast	2019	Overseas
9	Ibtisam Sheikh	Pakistan	(1999-03-16)16 March 1999 (aged 19)	Right-handed	Left-arm leg break googly	2019
13	Umaid Asif	Pakistan	(1984-04-30)30 April 1984 (aged 34)	Right-handed	Right-arm medium fast	2018
14	Sameen Gul	Pakistan	(1999-02-04)4 February 1999 (aged 20)	Right-handed	Right-arm medium	2018
32	Hasan Ali	Pakistan	(1994-02-07)7 February 1994 (aged 25)	Right-handed	Right-arm medium fast	2018
34	Chris Jordan	England	(1988-10-04)4 October 1988 (aged 30)	Right-handed	Right-arm fast	2019	Overseas
47	Wahab Riaz	Pakistan	(1985-06-28)28 June 1985 (aged 33)	Right-handed	Left-arm fast	2016
	Waqar Salamkheil	Afghanistan	(2001-10-02)2 October 2001 (aged 17)	Right-handed	Left-arm medium	2019	Overseas. Unavailable, replaced by Andre Fletcher.

Kit manufacturers and sponsors

Kit manufacturer Shirt sponsor (chest) Shirt sponsor (back) Chest branding Sleeve branding Zalmi in-house Haier Zalmi TV RD McDonald's Pakistan, Sprite, TCL

Playing kit

Season standings

Points table

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	T	NR	Pts	NRR
1	Peshawar Zalmi (R)	10	7	3	0	0	14	0.828
2	Quetta Gladiators (C)	10	7	3	0	0	14	0.376
3	Islamabad United (3rd)	10	5	5	0	0	10	0.127
4	Karachi Kings (4th)	10	5	5	0	0	10	−0.673
5	Multan Sultans	10	3	7	0	0	6	0.173
6	Lahore Qalandars	10	3	7	0	0	6	−0.837

Source: ESPNcricinfo

• The top 4 teams qualified for the playoffs
•   Advanced to Qualifier
•   Advanced to Eliminator 1

Notes:

• C = Champions;
• R = Runner-up;
• (x) = Position at the end of the tournament;

Season summary

Peshawar Zalmi finished the group stage with first position by winning seven of their matches and losing three. Peshawar came on top because of the higher run rate.^[7] Zalmi lost to Quetta Gladiators in the qualifier by 10 runs.^[8] Zalmi then defeated Islamabad United by 48 runs in the eliminator to reach the PSL final.^[9]

In the final in Karachi, after Peshawar Zalmi's openers got out, Sohaib Maqsood, who scored run-a-ball 20, added 31 runs for the third wicket with Umar Amin (38 runs off 33 balls). Zalmi scored 138-8 in 20 overs batting first. Peshawar Zalmi lost to Gladiators, who achieved the target in 17.5 overs, by 8 wickets finishing runners-up in the league.^[2]