Watch: Karachi Kings Gift A Hair Trimmer To Hasan Ali After Gifting A Hair Dryer

Pakistan’s pace bowling all-rounder, Hasan Ali, received the award for the top performer of the Karachi Kings during their recent contest against the Lahore Qalandars at the National Stadium in Karachi.

As a team, they lost the game by 65 runs. They started the tournament with a memorable victory against the Multan Sultans in the opening clash, but failed to continue the same strong show again.

Watch: Hasan Ali hides his Top Performer Award

Hasan Ali bowled beautifully in the first innings to end with bowling figures of 4/28 in four overs at an economy rate of seven. In a game where the opponents crossed the 200-run mark and most of the other bowlers went for so many runs, it was a commendable performance from the veteran.

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The management repeated their act at the end of the clash and gifted a special award for being the top player of the side in the fixture to Hasan, who displayed something on both his wrists while taking the gift.

The entire dressing room burst out in laughter. During the opening clash, the Karachi Kings’ management provided a hair-dryer to James Vince, as the England opening batter celebrated a fine knock of 101 runs in just 43 balls at a strike rate of 234.68, shouldering on 14 boundaries and four sixes to carry them over the winning margin.

It helped them chase a huge and stiff total against the Sultans in the second innings.

Acknowledgment and appreciation. Hassan Ali receives the Surf Excel #ZiddSeKhel Top Performer of the Match award for his fantastic performance. #YehHaiKarachi | #KingsSquad | #KKvLQ pic.twitter.com/QwivXclojd

— Karachi Kings (@KarachiKingsARY) April 16, 2025

Hasan Ali returns with figures of 4/28

Hasan Ali drew first blood for the Kings in his very first over. Opening batter, Mohammed Naeem, looked to swing away the wide-length ball outside the off stump. He dragged the ball into the leg side with a flat bat and could only manage to spoon it up towards the mid-on region, where Abbas Afridi grabbed a simple catch to send the batter back.

In his second over, the 30-year-old dismissed Abdullah Shafique. The national batter looked to tuck into the leg side against a short ball on the off-stump, which nipped away ever so slightly as the batter looked to close the face of the bat a bit early. It took the leading edge and flew towards the cover region, where Arafat Minhas took the catch.

Hasan Ali brought the trademark celebration. He returned in the 16th over of the innings to break the 125-run third-wicket stand between Fakhar Zaman and Daryl Mitchell. The former looked to clear his front foot and smash the low full toss over long-on.

But he couldn’t get full elevation in the shot as Adam Milne took a fine tumbling catch. On the last ball of his spell, Hasan Ali picked up his fourth wicket of the evening in the form of Sam Billings for 19 runs in 10 balls. The wicket-keeper batter couldn’t time the sweep and found the deep mid-wicket fielder.

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He is now the joint leading wicket-taker in PSL history with Wahab Riaz. Hasan Ali has collected 113 scalps in 83 innings at an average of 22.58 and an economy rate of 8.05, thanks to five four-wicket hauls.

Karachi Kings’ struggling batting faced its first defeat by 65 runs in PSL10

Deciding to bat first on a flat surface, Lahore put up 201/6 in their allotted 20 overs, thanks to two half-centuries from Zaman and Mitchell. Apart from Hasan Ali, no bowler could make a significant contribution to the event.

In reply, Karachi kept on losing wickets at regular intervals and were bundled out for 136 runs in 19.1 overs to fall short of the score by 65 runs.