Karachi Kings vs Quetta Gladiators Head to Head in the PSL

Quetta's Early Grip and Karachi's Late Fightback

Every PSL season has brought two meetings, and often one side takes both. Quetta swept in 2016, 2017, 2020, 2022 and 2023. Karachi swept in 2019, 2021 and 2026. The only shared seasons were 2018, 2024 and 2025.

Quetta’s best spell was five wins in a row from Jan 2022 to Feb 2024, two of them by fine margins: 6 runs on 18 Feb 2023 and a 4-wicket chase at Rawalpindi. Since then Karachi have won four of the last five, including a 56-run win at home on 18 Apr 2025 and both 2026 games at Lahore.

Home advantage has not helped Karachi much. At the National Stadium Karachi, the most used ground, Quetta lead 5 to 3. In Dubai they won 4 of 5. Chasing teams have won 13 times and teams batting first 9, from an average first innings score of 166.

Babar Azam, Hasan Ali and the Standout Performances

Babar Azam’s 357 for Karachi Kings, made over 12 innings, is the most by anyone, though he has scored slowly, at a strike rate of 106.57. RR Rossouw is the top Quetta scorer with 318, including 90 in the latest game. Martin Guptill played just two innings for Quetta in this fixture and made 203 runs, with a 67-ball 117 on 18 Feb 2023.

The highest score belongs to Colin Ingram, 127* off 59 balls for Karachi at Sharjah on 24 Feb 2019, which carried them to 188/4 in 18.4 overs. Ingram, Shane Watson and Guptill share the most player of the match awards with 2 each.

Hasan Ali of Karachi is the bowler to fear here: 18 wickets in only 6 games at an average of 10.11, with two four-wicket hauls. For Quetta, Naseem Shah has 12, and his 5/20 at the National Stadium in Jan 2022 is the pick of the bowling. Karachi were all out for 113 that day, the lowest total in the rivalry.

Quetta’s biggest win was by 67 runs in Dubai on 8 Mar 2018. For the wider picture, see the Karachi Kings PSL records, the Quetta Gladiators team page and the PSL records hub.