Peshawar Zalmi vs Karachi Kings Betting Tips 15/06/2021

15:42, 15 Jun 2021

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15:42, 15 Jun 2021

Zohaib Ahmed is a sports journalist whose profession is to report and edit but whose passion is to predict and bet. He’s been in the industry for more than a decade and has worked/written for various bookmakers/tipsters. His expertise is in cricket, football, MMA, boxing and basketball.

The 24th match of the Pakistan Super League (PSL) 2021 sees Peshawar Zalmi take on Karachi Kings at Sheikh Zayed Stadium in Abu Dhabi on June 15 (Tuesday). The match is scheduled to start at 11:30pm IST.

Teams Status

Karachi Kings

Two straight defeats to begin the Abu Dhabi leg have brought defending champions Karachi Kings down to Earth. It’s not just the results that must have annoyed the Karachi faithful but the manner of them too.

Against Multan, their top order, including star batsman and captain Babar Azam, played super slowly, and that piled up pressure on them to find runs at a much quicker pace in the second half of their unsuccessful run chase.

Then, against Islamabad, they amassed 190-4 and should have cruised to victory with that big a total to defend. But then Colin Munro and Iftikhar Ahmed went berserk and made sure that Islamabad won with more than an over to spare.

Karachi have slipped to fourth in the standings and will soon enter the race with Multan Sultans to avoid elimination, if their results do not improve immediately.

Peshawar Zalmi

Peshawar Zalmi have fared little better than Karachi since the restart. Of their three matches, they have lost two, with their sole victory coming against Quetta Gladiators, beating whom should not be deemed an achievement these days due to their own spectacular slump.

Peshawar, in their latest defeat, which came against Multan, posted an okay, if not sizable, 167-2 but their bowlers were helpless in the face of Mohammad Rizwan and Sohaib Maqsood’s controlled aggression and stroke play. Their target was achieved with almost four overs to spare.

The Javed Afridi-owned side must have felt that they were at least 20 runs short, with the main culprits being their openers Haider Ali and Kamran Akmal, both of whom batted at strike rates of 93.33 and 129.62 respectively. With the ball, a bulk of their pace attack was expensive and leaked runs like a sieve against the Sultans.

What do the Sportsbook Say

Brand	Peshawar Zalmi	Karachi Kings
	2.10	1.72
	2.032	1.78
	2.10	1.72

Karachi have been installed as the favourites. 22Bet has Karachi priced at 1.78, Bet365 at 1.72 and Betway at 1.72. Meanwhile, Peshawar are available for 2.032 at 22Bet, and 2.10 on both Bet365 and Betway.

Tipster’s Angle

Tip: Peshawar Zalmi to win @ 2.032

We pick Peshawar here because both the teams are pretty much equally strong (or weak). Karachi are the betting favourites probably because of their status as defending champions and them having one of the world’s elite T20 batsmen in the form of Babar Azam. But the truth is that their bowling is looking quite weak these days. Mohammad Amir has had a few nightmare games with the ball and his combined stats for the last three PSL matches read 113-0 in 11.4 overs. The rest of their pacers are doing little better. Peshawar have a few problems up the order but other than that they have a very strong batting unit and should be able to exploit Karachi’s recent problems.

Tip: Sharjeel Khan Total Runs Over (18.5) @ 1.832

Sharjeel Khan is not a streaky player and does not let his batting production be dictated by things such as form, purple patch or any such things. After every few flops, he gets luck his favour and delivers a knock of great destruction. He gave an indication in the last game that a storm could be coming but got out for 25. He is due a big innings and that could come here. Even if it does not, he should at least clear the 18.5 spread here.

Conclusion

For Karachi to get something out of this game, their bowling has to improve and, in particular, Mohammad Amir has to lead from the front. Until that happens, they will keep on surrendering scores no matter how big they are.