Pakistan Super League Betting Odds

Here are the outright odds for the PSL for the upcoming season:

* Odds true as of 31/01/2023 at 14:35 IST

Pakistan Super League: Brief History & Overview

The Pakistan Super League (PSL) is Pakistan’s domestic T20 cricket tournament, established in 2015 and based on a format similar to leading domestic cricket tournaments, such as the Indian Premier League and the Big Bash League.

Governed by the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB), the league has six teams, each representing different cities of Pakistan. The tournament is aimed at giving a platform to budding cricketers to showcase their skills, and draws players from foreign countries too.

Pakistan Super League Betting Tips and Predictions

It is important to remain updated with the latest betting tips and match prediction insights to place value bets that have a higher probability of winning.

As is characteristic of all T20 tournaments, PSL matches are also replete with exciting twists and turns that give bettors plenty of betting opportunities. While we have discussed the probable winners for this season in the section below, here are some useful tips that will help you bet wisely with your money:

Study head-to-head records of the teams in advance. Pay close attention to the highest scores, number of wickets taken, and the margin of victory. Such information will sharpen your cricket knowledge and help you take quick betting decisions in live betting markets.
Read reviews and do a SWOT analysis of the squads. Prepare a list of the players on whom you want to bet, in advance.
Study the Pakistani pitch reports and track their suitability vis-à-vis bowlers and batsmen.
If you plan to bet throughout the season, prepare a small betting diary and write match notes detailing what part of your analysis was right and what was not. This will act as supplementary information and help you in placing sharper bets for future matches.
Most bookmakers publish match odds well before the match begins. That gives you ample time to compare odds across different betting sites and place bets with the site that provides the best odds. A few extra minutes of work can multiply your gains when placing large bets.

Who Will Win the Pakistan Super League?

Like always, the Pakistan Super League is expected to deliver a rollercoaster of a season with cut-throat competition among the teams for a seat at the top spot.

Leading bookmakers have already published the outright odds for the seventh season of the PSL (list above), and the odds indicate a neck-to-neck competition between Karachi Kings and Lahore Qalandars.

Both teams have a stellar bowling lineup. Karachi Kings have a consistent bowling attack led by Mohammad Amir and Imad Wasim, both of whom have delivered well for the team in all the seasons they have played. On the other hand, the Qalandars offer a super-aggressive attack with a combination of pace and leg-spin split between Shaheen Afridi and Rashid Khan, respectively.

What ticks the meter in favour of Karachi Kings, though, is their batting firepower advantage. Babar Azam alone can annihilate the bowling opposition, but combine that with a solid performance by Danish Aziz and Mohammad Nabi, and the Karachi Kings have a clear path to victory.

When all is said and done, the truth is that T20s are high-octane matches where the match outcome can turn in a matter of minutes. However, with past trends and data in hand, our pick is Karachi Kings as the PSL 2022 winner.

Pakistan Super League Betting – Tournament Structure

While the Pakistan Super League is a relatively new conception, it has already garnered a lot of interest from cricket fans across the world. As mentioned, this is the seventh year the competition is being run.

There are six teams involved in the competition. The first part of the tournament comprises a group stage, with the top four sides qualifying for the knockout stages. Sides finishing first and second will face off in qualifier one for a spot in the final, while the third and fourth-placed team meet in an eliminator, with the losers being knocked out.

The losing side from qualifier one and the winning team from the eliminator can still make it to the final when they clash in qualifier two.

Here are the six teams involved in this year’s Pakistan Super League:

1. Karachi Kings

Home stadium: National Stadium, Karachi
Won championship in: 2020
Coach: Peter Moores
Captain: Babar Azam

Team
Babar Azam, Imad Wasim, Joe Clarke, Sharjeel Khan, Aamer Yamin, Mohammad Nabi, Mohammad Amir, Mohammad Ilyas, Lewis Gregory, Umaid Asif, Chris Jordan, Ian Cockbain, Rohail Nazir, Faisal Akram, Qasim Akram, Talha Ahsan, Muhammad Imran, Tom Lammonby

Key Player
Babar Azam is the undoubted superstar of the Karachi Kings. He continues to go from strength to strength, and  is ranked second in the ICC T20I Batting rankings.

Perhaps one of the crispest strikers in the T20 format, Azam is fantastic off the front foot, and he has an array of shots in his locker that can steal games away from other teams.

Azam’s importance to the cause can’t be understated, and he will have to continue to churn out runs if the Karachi Kings want to reclaim the coveted Pakistan Super League trophy.

2. Peshawar Zalmi

Home stadium: Arbab Niaz Stadium, Peshawar
Won championship in: 2017
Coach: Darren Sammy
Captain: Wahab Riaz

Team
Wahab Riaz, Shoaib Malik, Liam Livingstone, Saqib Mahmood, Hussain Talat, Tom Kohler-Cadmore, Haider Ali, Hazratullah Zazai, Usman Qadir, Salman Irshad, Kamran Akmal, Sirajuddin, Mohammad Amir Khan, Sherfane Rutherford, Arshad Iqbal, Sameen Gul, Ben Cutting, Mohammad Haris

Key Player
Like the IPL, the Pakistan Super League is full of big hitters who can flick a switch on in just a few seconds. Shoaib Malik is one of those players. Over the past two seasons of the PSL, the Pakistani batting supremo has scored over 632 runs, boasting a strike rate of 143.96.

Although he hasn’t been prolific with the bat in PSL 6, he’s still a fantastic presence in the squad, and if he gets motoring, he will be hard to stop. Malik may be 39 years old, but he still has plenty to contribute, and other sides have already taken note.

3. Islamabad United

Home stadium: Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium, Rawalpindi
Won championship in: 2016, 2018
Coach: Azhar Mahmood
Captain: Shadab Khan

Team
Shadab Khan, Asif Ali, Alex Hales, Hasan Ali, Danish Aziz, Faheem Ashraf, Mohammad Wasim Jr, Azam Khan, Colin Munro, Marchant de Lange, Paul Stirling, Muhammad Akhlaq, Reece Topley, Zafar Gohar, Mubasir Khan, M. Zeeshan, Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Ather Mehmood

Key Player
While Usman Khawaja stands out for his exploits at Test level with the bat for Australia, Mohammad Wasim is the sort of player that gets the crowd excited.

The 19-year-old has proved to be rather adept at all three formats of cricket, and aside from steaming in with the ball, he can launch the ball with the bat out of the ground too. A 20-ball 55 for the Pakistan Under-19s was a point in proof that he’s happy to play his shots, and he won’t stick around.

With the ball, Wasim has gained four wickets from four outings, with an economy rate of 8.40 to boot. He has also received rave reviews, and it is just a case of watching this space with Wasim.

4. Lahore Qalandars

Home stadium: Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore
Won championship in: None
Coach: Aaqib Javed
Captain: Shaheen Afridi

Team
Shaheen Afridi, Rashid Khan, Haris Rauf, Mohammad Hafeez, David Wiese, Sohail Akhtar, Zeeshan Ashraf, Fakhar Zaman, Phil Salt, Ahmed Daniyal, Harry Brook, Abdullah Shafique, Kamran Ghulam, Zaman Khan, Maaz Khan, Samit Patel, Syed Faridoun, Dean Foxcroft.

Key Player
The spinners always have a key role to play in T20s, and the same principle applies to the Pakistan Super League. Additionally, the Lahore Qalandars have had to thank Rashid Khan for getting them out of a few sticky situations.

Although he has a County contract with Sussex, Khan has put that hold to compete in PSL. Sussex’s loss is Lahore’s gain, and he will continue to befuddle batsmen with his variations.

IPL fans will also recognise Khan, who has turned out for the Sunrisers Hyderabad, and he can always be relied upon to deliver a wicket at a crucial time.

5. Multan Sultans

Home stadium: Multan Cricket Stadium, Multan
Won championship in: 2021
Coach: Andy Flower
Captain: Mohammad Rizwan

Team
Mohammad Rizwan, Sohaib Maqsood, Imran Tahir, Rilee Rossouw, Shan Masood, Khushdil Shah, Tim David, Odean Smith, Shahnawaz Dhani, Rumman Raees, Asif Afridi, Anwar Ali, Imran Khan Sr., Abbas Afridi, Rovman Powell, Amir Azmat, Ihsanullah, Blessing Muzarabani

Key Player
Ranking third in the ICC T20I batting rankings, Captain Rizwan joined the Sultans in Season 6 and led the team to the first PSL victory in the very first season itself. He has played for the Qalandars and Kings in the past, and displayed impeccable performance in those squads too.

He bats well in the upper and middle order, has scored 500 runs with Sultans, and has scored the highest score of 82 runs not out. He has a strike rate of 127. 87, and is known for effortlessly hitting boundaries, having shot 56 fours and 10 sixes in the last season itself.

6. Quetta Gladiators

Home stadium: Bugti Stadium, Quetta
Won championship in: 2019
Coach: Moin Khan
Captain: Sarfaraz Ahmed

Team
Sarfaraz Ahmed, James Vince, Iftikhar Ahmed, Mohammad Nawaz, Shahid Afridi, Mohammad Hasnain, Naseem Shah, Jason Roy, James Faulkner, Umar Akmal, Sohail Tanvir, Ben Duckett, Khurram Shehzad, Abdul Wahid Bangalzai, Muhammad Ashar Qureshi, Noor Ahmad, Ahsan Ali, Luke Wood

Key Player
While veteran Faf du Plessis is one of the marquee players of this squad, Mohammad Hasnain is certainly one of the leading lights at the other end of the spectrum.

Having burst onto the PSL scene in Season 4 (2019), he has 36 wickets under his belt and a bowling economy of 8.50.With Quetta Gladiators eyeing the trophy for the past two seasons, Hasnain will need to keep on delivering if his side are going to make progress in the tournament.

Key Stats for Pakistan Super League 2022

Pouring over previous stats and records are a sure-shot way of placing winning bets. Here are some important stats which can help you bet better in the Pakistan Super League:

The highest total in PSL is 247 runs, scored by Islamabad United against Peshawar Zalmi in Season 6. United batted first and won the match by a margin of 15 runs.
The lowest score in PSL is 59 runs, scored by Lahore Qalandars in Season 2 against Peshawar Zalmi. Zalmi won the match by three wickets with 18 balls remaining to bat.
The largest victory margin in PSL was achieved by Multan Sultans when they defeated Quetta Gladiators by 110 runs in Season 6.
Peshawar Zalmi has played the highest number of final matches – four.
Babar Azam (Karachi Kings) has scored the most runs in the PSL up to now – 2070 runs.
Wahab Riaz (Peshawar Zalmi) took the highest number of wickets in PSL – 94 with a bowling economy of 7.38.

Pakistan Super League – Previous Winners

Here is a list of the past winners and runners-up of the previous seasons of the PSL:

Season
Winners
Runners-Up
2016
Islamabad United
Quetta Gladiators
2017
Peshawar Zalmi
Quetta Gladiators
2018
Islamabad United
Peshawar Zalmi
2019
Quetta Gladiators
Peshawar Zalmi
2020
Karachi Kings
Lahore Qalandars
2021
Multan Sultans
Peshawar Zalmi

How Can I Watch the Pakistan Super League?

The Pakistan Super League should make for unmissable viewing. For those watching in India, they will be able to tune in via the Sony Pictures Network, while in Pakistan, the competition will be available on PTV Sports. In India, there are matches in the afternoon and evening. For the evening games, fans will be able to catch the action from 8.00 pm IST onwards.

UK viewers can catch the action via Sky Sports; however, to reach out to a global audience, the PSL will team up with Facebook to front live coverage. Fans will be able to watch the remaining games on the social media platform, which could open up new revenue streams for the PCB.

Pakistan Super League Betting FAQs

When will the Pakistan Super League start?

The seventh season of PSL will begin on 27th January, 2022.

Which will be the first match of the Pakistan Super League 2022?

The first match of the PSL will be played between Karachi Kings vs Multan Sultans on 27th January 2022 at the National Stadium, Karachi.

What are the best Pakistan Super League betting sites?

Our detailed analysis has revealed that bet365 and Betway are the best cricket betting sites for placing bets on the Pakistan Super League.

Do foreign players take part in the Pakistan Super League?

Yes, players from several countries compete in the domestic T20 league of Pakistan.

CricketBettingAdvice Final Say

The seventh edition of the Pakistan Super League will be gripping, and, at the time of writing, our prediction is that Karachi Kings will walk away with the trophy. However, anything can happen -there will be plenty of interest from a betting perspective, so make sure you keep tabs on the action and outright markets!

Pick one of the bookmakers we have listed above to enrich your betting experience, place your bets, cross your fingers – and, hopefully, you will reap the rewards.

Remember – bet intelligently, bet responsibly!

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