Colossal blow for Karachi Kings! 13 players suffer from food poisoning before crucial PSL 2024 match - Reports

PSL franchise Karachi Kings suffered a major setback as 13 players from the franchise are reportedly suffering from food poisoning as per reports in Geo News on Thursday.

There were further reports of one of the players being serious as he was shifted to a local hospital after his situation worsened. Several overseas players are participating in PSL 2024 and this major news outbreak has not stood well with them.

“The players didn’t get ill after ordering food from outside the hotel since that was not allowed,” a source close to the team added.

The Karachi Kings team management is hopeful that they will be able to field a playing XI in their next match against Quetta Gladiators at the National Bank Stadium in Karachi on February 29, Thursday.

So far in the season, the Karachi Kings have played four games winning two matches and losing two. The matches they won were against Peshawar Zalmi and Lahore Qalandars. They lost their previous match against Islamabad United on February 28.

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Colin Munro led with the bat as he scored 82 off 47 deliveries in Islamabad’s win over Karachi. Alex Hales also scored 47 with the bat. Shabad Khan, the skipper finished the match with an unbeaten 10 off 11 balls.

Karachi Kings In Trouble Fr Remainder Of PSL 2024

In the last game, the Karachi Kings batted first and scored 165/5 in their 20 overs. The total was not too much in the end as Karachi won the match with overs to spare. Kieron Pollard’s quickfire 48 came in a closing cause after the openers did not give them a good start. This was just the second for Islamabad United in this PSL season.

The Karachi Kings vs Islamabad United game started the Karachi leg of PSL 2024. it started with a defeat for the home side who were all and truly humbled by their opponents. Including the game on Thursday night against Quetta Gladiators, the Karachi Kings still have six games to play in PSL 2024.

The race to finish within the top four sides is still on with the PSL playoffs to be played from March 14- March 18. The final will be played on March 18 at the National Stadium in Karachi.

Karachi now have a packed schedule at home having matches every alternate days of in every two days. With almost more than half of the side out due to food poisoning, it will be interesting to see how they form their XI for the remaining games.

“Thought that anything over 170 would be a good score. Surface was quite crumbly and we thought it might be a tricky surface with no dew around. Today was an ideal opportunity to assert ourselves but unfortunately we could not do it. Don’t think there are any areas of concern. Would like to take more responsibility as the top order. Had to chop and change today because of the stomach bug going around. Need to give the new guys some time to settle. When you lose, you know you make a lot of mistakes and you want to correct them as quickly as possible” said Kings captain Shan Masood after their last loss against Islamabad United.

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