Quetta Gladiators vs Karachi Kings, 37th Match, Pakistan Super League 2026 - CommentaryQTG vs KRK, 37th Match, Pakistan Super League 2026 - Commentary

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David Warner | Player of match and Karachi Kings captain: Yeah, look, we sent a timer taking early wickets in the power play, which I asked for but it just got away from us a little bit. I felt like probably the 175 wicket after getting the first two, but those two batted well. They put on a good partnership, but to bring it back to 196, I felt, was a very chaseable total and it was about going out there and trying to execute a partnership. Look, I think you just got to go out there and, you know, play basics. I thought with the new ball on that wicket, one can have your name on it. And we had a little bit of luck, good start for me and Jason, to play that way and comprehensively win was great and now we have to wait with anticipation. Oh, we saw a cheese court over there. Hopefully I can do a dance or something. Or maybe a little bit of rain.

Saud Shakeel | Quetta Gladiator captain: It was a very beautiful tournament, we couldn’t really grab some key things, and we also didn’t get back-to-back wins. I think overall, in this year, performances whether individual or from anyone didn’t come like that, because of which we went very far behind in the tournament. But we gave our full try. Sometimes things go in your favour, sometimes they don’t. Last time the way we played the final, this time we couldn’t perform that well, so sometimes you have to accept it. Somewhere there were problems in batting, somewhere in bowling, so it’s like that, you know, the combined effort didn’t show. Yes, at halftime we felt that we were about ten runs short, but apart from that we felt these were good runs, and it wasn’t as easy as it looked when we were batting at that time. But they also played quite well in the second innings. But overall, if you see, we just couldn’t get that kind of a good performance throughout the tournament.

17:49 Local Time, 12:49 GMT, 18:19 IST: Karachi Kings have pulled off a sensational victory, chasing down 196 with ease to keep their playoff hopes alive while officially knocking the Quetta Gladiators out of the tournament. The chase was defined by a masterclass in power hitting from David Warner and Reeza Hendricks, who turned what should have been a tense finish into a completely one sided affair by dismantling the Quetta bowling attack. Warner played a vintage knock of 89 off 48 balls, while Hendricks matched him shot-for-shot with an unbeaten 87 off 48, the two veterans combining to make the target look far smaller than it actually was. The true turning point came in the 16th over, where the Kings effectively broke Quetta’s spirit by plundering a massive 24 runs, shifting the momentum entirely and bringing the required rate crashing down. While Quetta fought hard earlier in the day to recover from a shaky start, their bowlers had no answers for the onslaught, and this loss confirms they can no longer qualify for the next round. For Karachi, this emphatic win provides a massive boost to their net run rate and morale. They have now done everything in their power and must wait for other results to go their way to see if they sneak into the top four. We will be back for the presentations in a while.