# 2019 Quetta Gladiators season

The Quetta Gladiators is a franchise cricket team that represents Quetta in the Pakistan Super League. They were one of the six teams that competed in the 2019 season.
The team was captained by Pakistani Skipper Sarfraz Ahmed, coached by Moin Khan and mentored by Viv Richards, while Abdul Razzaq served as Assistant Coach. They became the Champions for the first time, after being the Runners-up twice in the 2016 and 2017 seasons. They became champions after defeating their arch-rivals Peshawar Zalmi in the final on 17 March at National Stadium. They finished second after the completion of their group stage matches, winning seven matches from their ten matches. They defeated Peshawar Zalmi in the Qualifier to reach the finals.
Australian player Shane Watson was the team's and season's best batsman with 430 runs from 12 matches. He won the Green Cap and Hanif Mohammad award for best batsman of the season, while Sohail Tanvir with 15 wickets from 12 matches was the leading wicket taker for the team and finished in the top five bowlers of the season.

## Squad

* Players with international caps are listed in bold.
* Ages are given as of the first match of the season, 14 February 2019
| No. | Name | Nationality | Birth date | Batting style | Bowlling style | Year signed | Notes |
| Batsmen ||||||||
| 04 | Rilee Rossouw | South Africa | (1989-10-09)9 October 1989 (aged 29) | Left-handed | Right-arm off break | 2019 | Overseas |
| 05 | Saud Shakeel | Pakistan | (1995-09-05)5 September 1995 (aged 23) | Left-handed | Left-arm orthodox | 2019 | |
| 19 | Ahmed Shehzad | Pakistan | (1991-11-23)23 November 1991 (aged 27) | Right-handed | Right-arm leg break | 2018 | |
| 23 | Ahsan Ali | Pakistan | (1993-12-10)10 December 1993 (aged 25) | Right-handed | Right-arm leg break | 2019 | |
| All-rounders ||||||||
| 21 | Mohammad Nawaz | Pakistan | (1994-03-21)21 March 1994 (aged 24) | Right-handed | Slow left-arm orthodox | 2018 | |
| 033 | Sohail Tanvir | Pakistan | (1984-12-12)12 December 1984 (aged 34) | Left-handed | Left-arm medium fast | 2018 | |
| 33 | Shane Watson | Australia | (1981-06-17)17 June 1981 (aged 37) | Right-handed | Right-arm fast medium | 2018 | Overseas |
| 47 | Dwayne Bravo | West Indies | (1983-10-07)7 October 1983 (aged 35) | Right-handed | Right-arm medium fast | 2019 | Overseas |
| 48 | Anwar Ali | Pakistan | (1987-11-25)25 November 1987 (aged 31) | Right-handed | Right-arm fast-medium | 2018 | |
| 814 | Dwayne Smith | West Indies | (1983-04-12)12 April 1983 (aged 35) | Right-handed | Right-arm medium | 2019 | Overseas |
| 18 | Danish Aziz | Pakistan | (1995-11-20)20 November 1995 (aged 23) | Left-handed | Slow left-arm orthodox | 2019 |
| 74 | Sunil Narine | West Indies | (1988-05-26)26 May 1988 (aged 30) | Left-handed | Right-arm off-spin | 2019 | Overseas |
| | Jalat Khan | Pakistan | (1986-02-03)3 February 1986 (aged 33) | Left-handed | Slow left-arm orthodox | 2019 | |
| Wicket-keepers ||||||||
| 45 | Azam Khan | Pakistan | (1998-08-10)10 August 1998 (aged 20) | Left-handed | — | 2019 | |
| 54 | Sarfaraz Ahmed | Pakistan | (1987-05-22)22 May 1987 (aged 31) | Right-handed | — | 2019 | Captain |
| 96 | Umar Akmal | Pakistan | (1990-05-26)26 May 1990 (aged 28) | Right-handed | Right-arm off spin | 2019 | |
| Bowlers ||||||||
| 010 | Max Waller | England | (1988-03-03)3 March 1988 (aged 30) | Right-handed | Right-arm leg break | 2019 | Overseas |
| 10 | Ghulam Mudassar | Pakistan | (1999-09-24)24 September 1999 (aged 19) | Right-handed | Right-arm off break | 2019 | |
| 11 | Harry Gurney | England | (1986-10-25)25 October 1986 (aged 32) | Right-handed | Left-arm medium fast | 2019 | Overseas |
| 17 | Mohammad Asghar | Pakistan | (1998-12-28)28 December 1998 (aged 20) | Left-handed | Slow left-arm orthodox | 2019 | |
| 22 | Mohammad Irfan | Pakistan | (1995-05-15)15 May 1995 (aged 23) | Right-handed | Right-arm fast | 2019 | |
| 20 | Mohammad Hasnain | Pakistan | (2000-04-05)5 April 2000 (aged 18) | Right-handed | Right-arm fast | 2019 | |
| 52 | Fawad Ahmed | Australia | (1982-02-05)5 February 1982 (aged 37) | Right-handed | Right-arm leg-break | 2019 | Overseas |
| 16 | Naseem Shah | Pakistan | (2003-02-15)15 February 2003 (aged 15) | Right-handed | Right-arm fast | 2019 | Injured, replaced by Mohammad Hasnain. |

## Season standings
### Points table

| Pos | Teamvte | 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 |
* 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

Gladiators finished the group stage with second position by winning seven of their matches and losing three. They then defeated Peshawar Zalmi in the qualifier by 10 runs to reach the final.
In the final in Karachi, Gladiators won the toss and elected to field. Gladiators restricted Zalmi to 138-8 in 20 overs with pacer Mohammad Hasnain finishing his four overs with the figures of 3-30 and Dwayne Bravo finishing with 2-24. In the second innings, Ahmed Shehzad scored unbeaten 58 runs off 51-balls. Rilee Rossouw, who made 39 not out off 32 balls, took the winning single. Gladiators achieved the target in 17.5 overs defeating Peshawar Zalmi by 8 wickets to win their first title. Gladiators' Hasnain was awarded man of the match award.