Quetta Gladiators opener Shamyl Hussain hit a 21-ball fifty on his PSL debut on Friday (March 27).
Shamyl Hussain wallops 21-ball fifty on PSL debut
The second match of PSL 2026 noticed Karachi Kings and Quetta Gladiators face off at the Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore. Quetta captain Saud Shakeel received the toss and put Karachi in; they made 181-7 on the again of Moeen Ali’s unbeaten 48 and knocks of 35 and 30 respectively from David Warner and Saad Baig.
Shakeel opened the batting within the chase alongside 21-year-old Shamyl Hussain, who was enjoying his first PSL recreation. Off the second ball he confronted, he punched Mir Hamza by way of cowl, earlier than flicking the left-arm fast disdainfully for six 4 balls later. Hassan Ali was subsequent within the teen’s sights, as he went down the bottom for 4 and over midwicket for six.
Shamyl collected a 3rd six off Shahid Aziz, earlier than the sixth over noticed him hit Hamza for 3 fours and a six, the latter mentioning a fast half-century, off 21 balls. Three balls later, he holed out off the bowling of off spinner Salman Agha.
Who is Shamyl Hussain?
Having been a part of the Islamabad United squad in earlier seasons, Shamyl was retained for 84 lakh rupees by Quetta for the 2026 PSL season. That got here on the again of a stellar home season by which he scored 899 runs in 9 Quaid-e-Azam Trophy matches, and 452 runs in 9 President’s One-Day Cup outings. Across last November and December, he also reeled off six consecutive fifty-plus scores across formats.
He opened the batting for Pakistan on the 2024 U19 World Cup, returning 151 runs at 30.20 and scoring one half-century. Runs have been a characteristic of his profession since age-group stage; within the 2020-21 season, he made 291 runs in six video games at Pakistan’s U16 national-level event. In Pakistan’s Junior League in 2022-23, Shamyl completed because the fourth-highest run-getter earlier than impressing for Pakistan Shaheens on the Top End T20 collection in July 2023.
