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Highest opening partnership in PSL: Opening batters from Quetta Gladiators have registered the fourth-highest PSL partnership.

During the second match of the ongoing seventh season of the Pakistan Super League between Quetta Gladiators and Peshawar Zalmi in Karachi, Quetta Gladiators opening batters Ahsan Ali and Will Smeed scored maiden (individual) PSL half-centuries to put together a 155-run opening partnership.

In what is the third-highest opening partnership in the PSL, it is the fourth-highest for any wicket in the tournament. Considering the number of overs left when Ali was dismissed, it wouldn’t be wrong to say that the pair has missed a golden opportunity of stitching a record opening stand.

Opening the batting together for the first time in the PSL, Ali and Smeed complemented each other exceptionally matching one another in both scoring boundaries and rotating strike throughout the innings.

Making his debut in the PSL tonight, Smeed led the partnership from the word go but the difference between runs scored by both the batters wasn’t a lot especially after Ali got his eye in.

While Smeed completed a half-century by hitting a six off Sameen Gul in the 11th over, Ali reached the 50-run mark by hitting a six off Peshawar Zalmi stand-in captain Shoaib Malik in the following over.

It was in the 16th over that Zalmi spinner Usman Qadir dismissed Ali to pick the first wicket of the night. While Ali departed after scoring 73 (46) with the help of eight fours and three sixes, Smeed went on to score 97 (62) including 11 fours and four sixes to power his team to 190/4 in 20 overs.

Highest opening partnership in PSL (table updated on March 11, 2023)

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Born and brought up in Pathankot, Dixit Bhargav is an engineering and sports management graduate who works as a Cricket Editor at The SportsRush. Having written more than 10,000 articles across more than five years at TSR, his first cricketing memory dates back to 2002 when former India captain Sourav Ganguly had waved his jersey at the historic Lord’s balcony. What followed for an 8-year-old was an instant adulation for both Ganguly and the sport. The optimist in him is waiting for the day when Punjab Kings will win their maiden Indian Premier League title. When not watching cricket, he is mostly found in a cinema hall watching a Punjabi movie.

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