Lahore Qalandars in 2018

The Lahore Qalandars cricket team is one of six teams that competed in the 2018 Pakistan Super League, representing Lahore, Punjab.

Lahore Qalandars
2018 season
Coach Aaqib Javed
Captain Brendon McCullum
PSL 20186th (eliminated)
Most runs Fakhar Zaman (277)[1]
Most wickets Yasir Shah (11)[2]
← 2017 2019 →

Team management retained Brendon McCullum as their captain.[3] They finished sixth in the season after winning only three of their ten matches, and as a result, were eliminated in the group stage for the third consecutive year.[4]

Lahore Qalandars
Lahore Qalandars
No. Name Nat. Birth date Bat Bowl Contract signed year Notes
Batsmen
12 Cameron Delport (1989-05-12) 12 May 1989 L R medium 2018 Overseas
39 Fakhar Zaman (1990-04-10) 10 April 1990 L L orthodox spin 2018 Vice-captain
42 Brendon McCullum (1981-09-27) 27 September 1981 R R medium 2018 Captain; Overseas
50 Chris Lynn (1990-04-10) 10 April 1990 r slow L orthodox 2018 Overseas
100 Sohail Akhtar (1986-03-02) 2 March 1986 R R medium 2018
All-rounders
24 Agha Salman (1993-11-23) 23 November 1993 R R off break 2018
29 Anton Devcich (1985-09-28) 28 September 1985 L Slow L orthodox 2018 Overseas
31 Bilal Asif (1985-09-24) 24 September 1985 R R off break 2018
35 Aamer Yamin (1990-06-26) 26 June 1990 R R medium fast 2017
51 Bilawal Bhatti (1991-09-17) 17 September 1991 R R fast 2018
66 Angelo Mathews (1987-06-02) 2 June 1987 R R medium 2018 Overseas
75 Sunil Narine (1988-05-26) 26 May 1988 L R off spin 2018 Overseas
Wicket-keepers
15 Gulraiz Sadaf (1989-12-27) 27 December 1989 R — 2018
33 Denesh Ramdin (1985-03-13) 13 March 1985 R — 2018 Overseas
96 Umar Akmal (1990-05-26) 26 May 1990 R R off spin 2018
Bowlers
10 Shaheen Afridi (2000-04-06) 6 April 2000 L L fast 2018
14 Sohail Khan (1984-03-06) 6 March 1984 R R fast 2018
21 Ghulam Mudassar (1999-10-20) 20 October 1999 R L fast medium 2018
57 Kyle Abbott (1987-06-18) 18 June 1987 R R fast medium 2018 Overseas
64 Imran Khan (1988-07-14) 14 July 1988 R L medium fast 2018
81 Mitchell McClenaghan (1986-06-11) 11 June 1986 L L fast medium 2018 Overseas
86 Yasir Shah (1986-05-02) 2 May 1986 R leg spin 2018
90 Mustafizur Rahman (1995-09-06) 6 September 1995 L L fast 2018 Overseas
99 Salman Irshad (1995-03-12) 12 March 1995 R R fast 2018
888 Raza Hasan (1992-07-08) 8 July 1992 R slow L orthodox 2018

    Season standings

    Points table
    Pos Team Pld W L NR Pts NRR
    1 Islamabad United (C) 10 7 3 0 14 0.296
    2 Karachi Kings (3rd) 10 5 4 1 11 0.028
    3 Peshawar Zalmi (R) 10 5 5 0 10 0.464
    4 Quetta Gladiators (4th) 10 5 5 0 10 0.312
    5 Multan Sultans 10 4 5 1 9 −0.191
    6 Lahore Qalandars 10 3 7 0 6 −0.931
    Source: ESPNcricinfo
    • The top 4 teams qualified for the playoffs
    •   Advanced to Qualifier
    •   Advanced to Eliminator 1

    Season summary

    Before, 2018 PSL players draft, team management had to retain maximum of ten players in their squad, and they retained Sunil Narine, Umar Akmal, Brendon McCullum, Yasir Shah, Sohail Khan, Cameron Delport, Aamer Yamin, Bilawal Bhatti and previous season's leading runs-scorer for the team Fakhar Zaman. Ghulam Mudassar was retained as team's emerging player.[3]

    At the players draft, held in Lahore, they managed to picked some good local and International players in their squad. Australia's Explosive opener, Chris Lynn was their first pick of the night, along with Angelo Mathews, Mitchell McClenaghan and Mustafizur Rahman and Pakistani players like Shaheen Afridi and Bilal Asif were also picked.[5][6] However, few days before the season started, it was announced that Chris Lynn has suffered a shoulder injury, therefore, he was unavailable for the entire season.[7] He was replaced by South Africa's Kyle Abbott.[8]

    See also

    References
    1. "Lahore Qalandars / Most Runs / 2018 season". ESPNCricinfo. Retrieved 20 March 2018.
    2. "Lahore Qalandars / Most Wickets / 2018 season". ESPNCricinfo. Retrieved 20 March 2018.
    3. "Pakistan Super League 2018:5 teams players retained list". Dawn News. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
    4. "Akmal's 107* powers Peshawar into knockouts". ESPN. Retrieved 15 September 2020.
    5. "Final lineup of Lahore Qalandars in 2018". Propakistani.pk. Retrieved 15 September 2020.
    6. "Lynn, Tahir headline picks in PSL draft". CricBuzz. 12 November 2017. Retrieved 16 September 2020.
    7. "Lynn set to miss PSL, return to Brisbane". Cricket Australia. Retrieved 15 September 2020.
    8. "PSL 2018: Lahore Qalandars name the replacement for injured Chris Lynn". Cricket Tracker. Retrieved 16 September 2020.
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