Twitter Reactions: Quetta Gladiators register their second win of PSL 2023 beating Karachi Kings by four wickets

The action in the Pakistan Super League 2023 continued on Monday, March 6 as the bottom two teams on the points table Quetta Gladiators and Karachi Kings took on each other at Pindi Club Ground, Rawalpindi. Gladiators’ captain Sarfaraz Ahmed won the toss and invited the Kings to bat first.

The captain’s decision proved to be right as Naseem Shah sent Matthew Wade packing on the very first ball of the innings. A few overs later Aimal Khan dismissed Tayyab Tahir to give the Kings their second blow. Aimal struck once again in the eighth over scalping Qasim Akram’s wicket.

While wickets fell at one end, Adam Rossington continued to take the innings forward with his brilliant innings. He added 46 runs for the fifth wicket with captain Imad Wasim. Rossington was finally dismissed for a well-made 69 off 45 balls smashing 10 fours and a six.

Imad Wasim(30 off 20) and Aamer Yamin (23 off 11) gave the finishing touch to the innings as the Kings posted 164/6 on the board in their allotted 20 overs. Naseem Shah and Aimal Khan picked up two wickets each for the Gladiators.

In their reply, the Gladiators also didn’t get off to the best of starts as they lost opener Omair Yousuf in the second over of the match who got dismissed by Aamer Yamin. They further lost four more wickets in the first ten overs and were reeling at 63/5.

Martin Guptill's heroics script second win for the Gladiators

With their team in trouble, Martin Guptill and Sarfaraz Ahmed got together at the crease and almost took their team home by adding 95 runs for the sixth wicket in 57 balls. Guptill played a sensational knock of 86 off 56 balls smashing nine fours and four sixes in his innings. As Guptill smacked the bowlers all around the park, Sarfaraz held one end scoring 29 off 25 balls before his runout ended the magnificent partnership.

With 7 runs required from the last four balls, Dwaine Pretorious did the finishing job for his team scoring 10 off 3 balls as the Gladiators won the match by four wickets with one ball to spare. Tabraiz Shamsi was the pick of the bowlers for the Kings who picked up 2/20 in four overs.

Here's how Twitter reacted:

Crypto Cricketer@cricketcoast

A clean sweep in #PSL match. The extra one was a free practice GL, so that doesn't matter anyway. Amazing batting by Guptill once again, against the same opponent. Thoroughly enjoyed the end. #PSL8 #KKvQG #Dream11 #FantasyCricket

11:30 PM · Mar 06, 2023

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Farid Khan@_FaridKhan

Quetta have won two matches this season, in both matches Martin Guptill was Player of the Match and both time the team on the receiving end was Karachi Kings. He scored 117 against them earlier and now 86* - out of his total of 252 runs, 203 have come against KK. #HBLPSL8

11:24 PM · Mar 06, 2023

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Waqas@Heyitswaaqas

KK released Martin Guptil and I remembered when Wasim Akram trolled Martin Guptil about his bad performance and now he’s settling the score and making sure Wasim bhai enjoy his performance 😁 #PSL #QGvKK

11:27 PM · Mar 06, 2023

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Hammad@Hammad_053

Gladiators win! Martin Guptill 👏👏👏👏 #PSL2023 #QuettaGladiators #Guptill #psl #KKvQG #QGvKK

11:24 PM · Mar 06, 2023

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Muzaffar@smuzaffaruddin

This is how you win matches 👏❤️ Take a bow @sarfaraz54 true leadership and game awareness. #kkvsqg #psl #2023 instagram.com/p/CpdOLExuyZr4…

11:24 PM · Mar 06, 2023

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Muiz Ul Amin@iammuizulamin

Karachi Kings fans checking their team rankings in this PSL #KKvQG #PSL #PSL8 #PSL2023

11:23 PM · Mar 06, 2023

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ˢᵃ͢͢͢ʳᵏᵃʳᴊᴏᴜɴ Qalandar@joun313

Karachi Kings out of the tournament 🥶 ik wariii ferrrrrrr #cricketershd #PSL2023 #QGvsKK #PSL

11:22 PM · Mar 06, 2023

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Dr Ata 👨🏻‍⚕️@mataulhaq911

Match jata hai to jaye… Buffet ka khana nah jaye 😂😂 #psl #PSL08 #PSL2023 #QGvKK #meme #MuhammadAmir

11:22 PM · Mar 06, 2023

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🚩𝑷𝑨𝑩𝑳𝑶 𝑬𝑺𝑪𝑶𝑩𝑨𝑹.⁴⁵@hoosier_ddaddyy

Karachi kings be like: hum nahi jeetega hamara target hai, nahi jeetega hamara Marzi 😂 #PSL

11:21 PM · Mar 06, 2023

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سيّد 𝓜𝓸𝓲𝓷💫@SyedMoin017

Nice Match B/w Quetta & Karachi WE LOSE BUT KOI BAT NHI QUETTA BHI BAHIR HI HAI😂 #HBLPSL2023 #Amir #naseemshah #Sarfaraz #PSL

11:21 PM · Mar 06, 2023

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Thakur@hassam_sajjad

Karachi Kings eliminated 😂😂😂

Adnan khan@Adnankh25370811

@hassam_sajjad Karachi are not Kings without the King. @babarazam258 #PSL #KingBabar👑

11:19 PM · Mar 06, 2023

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