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Pakistan Super League (PSL) 2024 caravan after the primary 14 matches divided between Multan and Lahore has moved to Karachi with two video games already being performed at the National Stadium already. The second venue in the second leg will be Rawalpindi and the batters will certainly benefit from the upcoming few matches. Lahore Qalandars will tackle Peshawar Zalmi in the primary sport at the Pindi Stadium on Saturday, March 2 in a double-header, adopted by the second match between Islamabad United and the Quetta Gladiators.
The Qalandars will be hoping for a change in fortunes with the change in venue with the defending champions having misplaced all six video games up to now and equally for Karachi Kings, who’ve misplaced three out of their 5 video games, together with each their house video games up to now.
Pindi Cricket Stadium in Rawalpindi pitch report
Rawalpindi dishes out one of many flattest surfaces in the world, not to mention Pakistan and this PSL will be no completely different. The Pindi Stadium with small boundaries and a belter of a surface has been a darling for the batters in the final couple of years with a relaid pitch and after a couple of excessive scores in the sooner video games in Lahore and Multan, the batters will relish taking part in in Rawalpindi as effectively.
Since the primary sport is a day match, the group successful the toss would possibly choose to bat first and benefit from the contemporary surface. But it is a tough venue to defend and chasing has at all times been a safer choice. The pitch is just not going to alter a lot as has been the case in Rawalpindi in the video games in the PSL earlier than and even in T20Is. The final T20I performed at the venue was in April final 12 months the place New Zealand comfortably chased down 194 runs in opposition to Pakistan but when the group batting first will get a rating in 210-220 vary, chasing will not be simple.
