Khurram Shahzad's four-fer, after Jason Roy struck a 64-ball 82, helped Quetta Gladiators to a 23-run prevail upon Karachi Kings to move to eight focuses for just a slight numerical possibility fitting the bill for the end of the season games. Having selected to bat first, Gladiator came together for opener Roy's 82 - bound with 11 hits to the fence. He overwhelmed the 90-run organization with James Vince, who chipped an important 24-ball 29 containing a six and three additional limits. Roy changed gear subsequent to walking to a 38-ball fifty, and later tracked down help in Itikhar Ahmed whose 11-ball 21 pushed the group to a cutthroat 166/4. For, nonetheless, appeared to be a smidgen less when Joe Clarke and Babar Azam set on a 87-run opening stand inside 11 overs. Nonetheless, Khurram struck two times in his progressive overs to fix Kings back with the wickets of Babar and Sharjeel Khan. What followed next was a free fall as Kings imploded from an agreeable 120/3 to 139/8 in the demise overs with just Imad Wasim dealing with a score in twofold digits. Naseem Shah set off the strutter and Khurram picked two tail-enders to wrap up with figures of 4 for 22 from his share of four overs. At eight focuses now, Gladiators are attached with Islamabad United yet the last option's better NRR of +0.101 as without wanting to mean except if United experience a record weighty loss in the second round of the Sunday twofold header, they look all set to thump Gladiators formally out of conflict for a knockouts compartment. The 2020 bosses, Kings, stand wiped out with just a lone win in the season. Brief scores: Quetta Gladiators 166/4 in 20 overs (Jason Roy 82, James Vince 29; Imad Wasim 1-27) beat Karachi Kings 143/8 in 20 overs (Joe Clarke 52, Babar Azam 36; Khurram Shahzad 4-22, Naseem Shah 2-14)