After winning the toss, Hyderabad Kingsmen opted to field against Multan Sultans in the first eliminator of the Pakistan Super League (PSL) 11 at Lahore's Gaddafi Stadium on Wednesday.
Hyderabad Kingsmen: Marnus Labuschagne(c), Maaz Sadaqat, Saim Ayub, Usman Khan(w), Kusal Perera, Glenn Maxwell, Hassan Khan, Irfan Khan, Hunain Shah, Mohammad Ali, and Akif Javed.
Multan Sultans: Ashton Turner(c), Sahibzada Farhan, Steven Smith, Josh Philippe(w), Shan Masood, Arafat Minhas, Mohammad Imran Randhawa, Mohammad Nawaz, Peter Siddle, Faisal Akram, and Muhammad Ismail.
Squads
Multan Sultans: Ashton Turner (c), Shan Masood (vc), Mohammad Nawaz, Shehzad Gul, Faisal Akram, Imran Randhawa, Arafat Minhas, Sahibzada Farhan, Steve Smith, Peter Siddle, Tabraiz Shamsi, Lachlan Shaw, Delano Potgieter, Josh Philippe, Momin Qamar, Muhammad Awais Zafar, Muhammad Shahzad, Arshad Iqbal, Mohammad Wasim Jnr, Muhammad Ismail and Atizaz Habib Khan.
Hyderabad Kingsmen: Marnus Labuschagne (c), Hassan Khan (vc), Usman Khan, Akif Javed, Maaz Sadaqat, Saim Ayub, Mohammad Ali, Kusal Perera, Muhammad Irfan Khan, Shayan Jahangir, Glenn Maxwell, Hammad Azam, Riley Meredith, Sharjeel Khan, Asif Mehmood, Hunain Shah, Rizwan Mehmood, Saad Ali, Tayyab Arif, Maheesh Theekshana and Ahmed Hussain.
The Kingsmen and Sultans came face-to-face just twice as the former are making their PSL appearance, while their head-to-head record hangs in the balance with one victory apiece.
Kingsmen and Sultans enter the fixture with contrasting momentum in their favour. The debutants have just one defeat in their last five completed matches, while the Sultans have just two triumphs.
Furthermore, the 2021 champions are fresh from a four-wicket defeat against Islamabad United, which barred them from securing a top-two finish.
Kingsmen, on the other hand, earned a miraculous entry into the playoffs as they thumped fellow debutants RawalPindiz by 108 runs to pip defending champions Lahore Qalandars in the standings by boosting their net run rate.
Multan Sultans: L, L, W, W, L (most recent first)
Hyderabad Kingsmen: W, L, W, W, W
