Saud shakeeel slowest innings psl 2025: Anything is possible at any time in cricket. It is about 50 years old when Sunil Gavaskar scored just 36 runs in 174 balls in an ODI match against England in 1975. Now something similar has happened in the 10th season of Pakistan Super League. Quetta Gladiators captain Sawd Shakeel scored just 40 runs in the match against Karachi Kings, due to which he is being severely criticized. Usually, the innings of 40 runs is considered a big contribution in T20 cricket, but why are Shakeel being trolled? Here you will get the answer to this question.

Captain became the biggest enemy

Karachi Kings played a score of 175 runs while playing first in the match. Who would have thought that Sud Shakeel will become the biggest enemy of his own team in T20. In fact, chasing the target of 176 runs, she was opening for Quetta Gladiators by Saud Shakeel and Finn Allen.

Gladiators’ team was constantly losing wickets from one end, but captain Shakeel was engrossed in playing in a slow way. It is worth noting that Saud Shakeel returned to an unbeaten pavilion. Gladiators batting all 20 overs, in which Shakeel was able to score just 33 runs after playing 40 balls. Despite starting the innings and playing the entire 20 overs, captain Saud Shakeel was able to score only 33 runs.

PSL History’s lowest strike rate

Facing at least 40 balls in any innings of PSL history, Soud Shakeel has now become the batsman to bat at the slowest strike rate. He batting against Karachi Kings at a very slow strike rate of 82.50. This embarrassing record was earlier named Australia’s Matthew Wade, who batted at a strike rate of 97.87 in the match against Multan Sultan in 2023.

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