2020 Karachi Kings season

Karachi Kings

2020 season
Coach	Dean Jones
Captain	Imad Wasim (9 matches) Babar Azam (1 match)
PSL 2020	1st (winners)
Most runs	Babar Azam (473)[1]
Most wickets	Mohammad Amir (10)[2]
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The Karachi Kings is a franchise cricket team that represents Karachi in the Pakistan Super League since 2016 and is one of the expensive teams in League's history. They were one of the six teams that competed in the 2020 season. In the final, they beat Lahore Qalandars by 5 wickets, to win their maiden PSL title.[3][4]

The team was captained by Imad Wasim, coached by Dean Jones, [5] until his sudden death in September 2020.[6] Babar Azam was the team's leading run-scorer[1] while, Mohammad Amir was leading wicket-taker.[2]

The team won five of its ten fixtures with one being washed out, therefore, qualified for the play-offs.[7]

Impact of COVID-19

The playoff stage of the tournament was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[8] On 2 July 2020, PCB announced that they are looking forward to completing the season in November 2020.[9] On 2 September 2020, the PCB confirmed the fixtures for the remaining matches.[10] The matches are scheduled to be held at Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore, in the month of November on 14 and 15, with the final scheduled to be played on 17.[10]

Squad

• Players with international caps are listed in bold.
• Ages are given as of the first day of the season, 20 February 2020

No.	Name	Nationality	Birth date	Batting style	Bowling style	Signed year	Notes
Batsmen
10	Alex Hales	England	(1989-01-03)3 January 1989 (aged 31)	Right-handed	Right-arm medium	2020	Overseas
24	Cameron Delport	South Africa	(1989-05-12)12 May 1989 (aged 30)	Left-handed	Right-arm medium	2020	Overseas
56	Babar Azam	Pakistan	(1994-10-15)15 October 1994 (aged 25)	Right-handed	Right-arm off break	2017	Vice-captain
98	Sharjeel Khan	Pakistan	(1989-08-14)14 August 1989 (aged 30)	Left-handed	Right-arm leg break	2020
	Awais Zia	Pakistan	(1986-09-01)1 September 1986 (aged 33)	Left-handed	Right-arm off break	2019
All-rounders
9	Imad Wasim	Pakistan	(1988-12-18)18 December 1988 (aged 31)	Left-handed	Slow left-arm orthodox	2016	Captain
12	Aamer Yamin	Pakistan	(1990-06-26)26 June 1990 (aged 29)	Right-handed	Right-arm medium-fast	2019	Unavailable due to injury
96	Iftikhar Ahmed	Pakistan	(1990-09-03)3 September 1990 (aged 29)	Right-handed	Right-arm off break	2019
	Dan Lawrence	England	(1997-07-12)12 July 1997 (aged 22)	Right-handed	Right-arm off break	2020	Overseas, unavailable
Wicket-keepers
16	Mohammad Rizwan	Pakistan	(1992-06-12)12 June 1992 (aged 27)	Right-handed	Right-arm medium	2018
59	Chadwick Walton	West Indies	(1985-07-03)3 July 1985 (aged 34)	Right-handed	-	2020	Overseas. Replacement for Dan Lawrence
Bowlers
5	Mohammad Amir	Pakistan	(1992-04-13)13 April 1992 (aged 27)	Left-handed	Left-arm fast medium	2016
13	Umaid Asif	Pakistan	(1984-04-30)30 April 1984 (aged 35)	Right-handed	Right-arm medium fast	2020
15	Umer Khan	Pakistan	(1999-08-05)5 August 1999 (aged 20)	Left-handed	Slow left-arm orthodox	2019
23	Usama Mir	Pakistan	(1995-12-23)23 December 1995 (aged 24)	Right-handed	Right-arm leg break	2016
32	Arshad Iqbal	Pakistan	(2000-12-26)26 December 2000 (aged 19)	Right-handed	Right-arm medium fast	2020
34	Chris Jordan	England	(1988-10-04)4 October 1988 (aged 31)	Right-handed	Right-arm fast medium	2020	Overseas
47	Ali Khan	United States	(1990-12-13)13 December 1990 (aged 29)	Right-handed	Right-arm fast medium	2020	Overseas
58	Waqas Maqsood	Pakistan	(1987-11-04)4 November 1987 (aged 32)	Right-handed	Left-arm medium fast	2020	Replacement for Aamer Yamin
81	Mitchell McClenaghan	New Zealand	(1986-06-11)11 June 1986 (aged 33)	Left-handed	Left-arm fast medium	2020	Overseas, Replacement for Liam Plunkett
	Liam Plunkett	England	(1985-04-06)6 April 1985 (aged 34)	Right-handed	Right-arm fast	2020	Overseas, unavailable

Kit manufacturers and sponsors

Kit manufacturer Shirt sponsor (chest) Shirt sponsor (back) Chest branding Sleeve branding AJ Sports ARY Laguna QMobile Surf Excel Imtiaz Super Market, Mughal Steel, ARY Laguna

Playing kit

Season standings

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	NR	Pts	NRR
1	Multan Sultans (3rd)	10	6	2	2	14	1.031
2	Karachi Kings (C)	10	5	4	1	11	−0.190
3	Lahore Qalandars (R)	10	5	5	0	10	−0.072
4	Peshawar Zalmi (4th)	10	4	5	1	9	−0.055
5	Quetta Gladiators	10	4	5	1	9	−0.722
6	Islamabad United	10	3	6	1	7	0.185

Source: ESPNcricinfo

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

References

1. "Most runs". ESPNCricinfo. Retrieved 15 March 2020.
2. "Most wickets". ESPNCricinfo. Retrieved 15 March 2020.
3. "Babar Azam's fluent fifty guides Karachi Kings to maiden PSL title". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 17 March 2022.
4. "Bowlers, Babar lift Karachi Kings to maiden PSL title". Cricbuzz. Retrieved 17 March 2022.
5. "Karachi Kings appoint Dean Jones as head coach". Geo TV. Retrieved 6 December 2019.
6. "Dean Jones, former Australia cricketer, coach and commentator, dies aged 59". The Guardian. Retrieved 24 September 2020.
7. "PSL 2020: Karachi seal qualification, Islamabad crash out". Geo Super. 14 March 2020. Retrieved 14 September 2020.
8. "PSL play-offs postponed amid coronavirus fears". ESPNCricinfo. 17 March 2020. Retrieved 14 September 2020.
9. "Outcomes of eighth PSL Governing Council meeting". psl-t20.com. 2 July 2020. Retrieved 14 September 2020.
10. "PCB announces schedule of remaining HBL PSL 2020 matches". Pakistan Cricket Board. 2 September 2020. Retrieved 14 September 2020.