Quetta Gladiators vs Islamabad United match prediction 9th match

Quetta Gladiators will face-off against Islamabad in match no. 9 of the 2020 Pakistan Premier League at the Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium, this Thursday evening.

Pakistan Super League is in full swing with Islamabad United and Quetta Gladiators at the first and second position respectively. The temperatures will soar in Rawalpindi as the top two teams fight it out to stay at the top of the points table in the ongoing season. With Dawid Malan, Colin Munro on one side and Jason Roy on the other, get prepared for some big hits.

We are expecting at least 24 runs from Dawid Malan

After his exploits in the Bangladesh Premier League earlier this year, the Englishman has started his PSL campaign in a high and backing him to score at least 24 runs in the upcoming match. In the three matches he played this season, his scores were – 22, 35, and 64, scoring a total of 121 runs at an average of over 40 runs per innings and even scored north of 23 in two of those matches. The left hander has been performing well recently having scored 444 runs in the BPL in 11 matches at an average of almost 50 runs per innings including three fifties and a century. Apart from this, we have his illustrious T20 career to back up our claims.

In 199 T20 matches he’s played, Malan has scored a total of 5420 runs at an average of 33.45, including 30 half centuries and as many as five centuries. I cannot recall many cricketers who sport such healthy averages in this format of the game. Whatever the case may be, I am pretty confident that he is going to score at least 24 runs this Thursday. To sum it up, the last Malan played against Quetta Gladiators, he scored 64 runs. I hope you have placed the bet by now.

Mohammad Hasnain to shine with the ball

The new kid in the reckoning in Pakistan cricket, this is Mohammad Hasnain’s opportunity to make a mark in a stage which has International appeal. And so far, he has made the most out of it. His figures in the last three matches read 3/33, 0/38, 4/25, with him having picked up seven wickets this season (most by any bowler) and was the pick of the bowlers in two of the above mentioned games. If you feel that’s all I have got to substantiate, you are wrong.

Mohammad Hasnain has played only four T20I matches at home and incidentally has taken all his five wickets in his career in Pakistan. Out of those, he was the top bowler on a couple of occasions. Overall, in the 26 T20s he’s played so far, the speedster has scalped 40 wickets at an impressive average of 20.90 including best figures of 4/25. Having already played in the Caribbean Premier League last year, he has picked up six wickets in just four matches. This is one of the safest bets you are going to find in the market and there’s no way you should ignore it, especially with odds of 3.50 on the radar.

Jason Roy to hit at least 2.5 fours

A little unpredictable than the previous couple of deals, but I can give you many reasons why you should go for this one. In the three matches he’s played this season, Malan has already hit a total of 7 boundaries (2.3 per innings), which is the second highest so far by any batsman for his team. On the other hand, in 35 T20Is, he has managed to score a total of 85 boundaries. In the last three T20Is, Roy has struck a total of 10 boundaries at a rate of more than three per innings, which speaks loads about his recent form. Overall, in 205 T20s, Roy had hit a total of 562 boundaries at a rate of over 2.5 per innings.