Peshawar Zalmi vs Quetta Gladiators match prediction 18th match

Halfway down the road, this edition of the PSL will see the Peshawar Zalmi and the Quetta Gladiators fight it out in their second clash of the season, on Thursday.

When there’s some T20 around, there’s this unsaid excitement that pumps up the value of every game. Sandwiched between the recently concluded Big Bash League and the Indian Premier League, the PSL has made for itself a significant fan base. And if you’re one of them with a special interest in betting, we’re here to help you out! With the Peshawar Zalmi taking on the Quetta Gladiators, on March 5, we have arranged a set of handpicked bets for you punters. This will be their second clash of the season after the first was won by Peshawar. Not only do these bets match the game’s excitement but also promise a great amount of profit for its enthusiasts.

Kamran Akmal to score more match runs than Tom Banton

Going back to the first clash between the two teams in question, in this PSL season, it was no one but Kamran Akmal doing the deed for the Peshawar Zalmi. The wicket-keeper scored a 55-ball 101 to lead the team to victory against the Gladiators. Preceding that game, Akmal had scored a splendid 43 against the Karachi Kings. Meanwhile, Tom Banton has been suffering a rough patch. So going into the comparison, we look at the individual forms of the two players who have taken into consideration. While the last five scores of Akmal are 4,14,15,101,43, which gives us an average of 35.4 runs. On the other hand, Banton’s scores have been 0, 34, 4, 3,13 - which gives us an average score of 10.8. Moreover, Akmal got a hundred and a 40+ score, whereas Banton has scored nothing above 40 in the last five games. In the head to head clash, Banton only scored 3 runs in comparison to Akmal’s 101. So, as Bet365 has placed the odds of Akmal scoring higher than Banton at 1.80, this is one bet that simply can’t be overlooked.

Jason Roy to outscore Shane Watson

Now, we have another player comparison but this time both are from the same team- the Quetta Gladiators. With 182 and 162 runs for Jason Roy and Shane Watson, respectively, in six games, they are the two top scorers of their team in this season. Looking at their recent form, Jason Roy has accumulated the scores of 12, 30, 50, 17, 73* - that’s two fifty plus scores and a thirty. Meanwhile, Watson has amassed scores of 23, 80, 9, 27, 8 in the last five games with only one half-century. The average scores of Roy and Watson, in this sample space, are 36.4 and 29.4, respectively. In the previous game against Peshawar Zalmi, Roy smacked a 57-ball 73, whereas Watson’s contribution was a 10-ball 8. So that gives us a very clear picture of Roy’s advantage over Watson and that the former is going to score higher than his fellow opener. Also, the odds placed by Bet365 for this bet is at 1.80, so aren’t you majorly tempted to go for it?

Shane Watson to score under 3 fours

With only one fifty-plus score in the last five games, Shane Watson has clearly not been in great touch with the bat. Now the Quetta Gladiators opener has also, quite surprisingly, scored as many boundaries as one might think. Also, not even consistently. This bet is actually one of the safest ones to go for as looking at this recent form, in all the six games of this season, Watson has only hit three sixes or more in only one game when he hit seven against the Multan Sultans. But in the rest of the five games, he has hit two boundaries thrice and one boundary each in two games. Moreover, in the game against the Peshawar Zalmi he only hit one four. With Bet365 placing the odds for Watson to score two boundaries or less in Thursday’s game at 1.83, we say you go for without any doubts.