New Delhi: Cricket starved Pakistanis will welcome a hosts of international cricketers when Peshawar Zalmi take on Quetta Gladiators in the final of 2017 Pakistan Super League (PSL) at the Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore today.


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Here's everything you need about the much-talked match:


Preview: Quetta Gladiators are last season runners-up, but Peshawar Zalmi will start as favourites, yes despite the absence of injured Shahid Afridi.


Both the teams have roped in a new set of foreign players after the 'mercenaries' from the first lot opted out of the final due to security concerns.


Gladiators have edged out Zalmi in the first qualifying final, but the reported availability of foreign players – Darren Sammy, David Malan, Marlon Samuels and Chris Jordan – makes them a dangerous outfit.


Meanwhile, unprecedented security arrangement has been made ahead of the final to avoid any untoward incident.


Arrangements:


15,000 police, Rangers and army personnel deployed


300 medical technicians, firefighters and disaster rescuers


30 mobile rescue posts set up at Gaddafi Stadium


12 fire vehicles, 4 rescue vans stationed


Date: March 5 (Sunday)


Time: 8:30 IST


Venue: Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore


Live streaming: Prime TV Online


TV Listing: Ten Sports, PTV, Geo Super (Pakistan); Ten Sports, CSN (Sri Lanka); Prime TV (UK); Flow TV (West Indies); Gazi TV (Bangladesh); OSN Sports (UAE)


Likely XIs:


Quetta Gladiators: Ahmed Shehzad, Anamul Haque, Elton Chigumbura, Sarfraz Ahmed (c & wk), Asad Shafiq, Anwar Ali, Saad Nasim, Mohammad Nawaz, Hasan Khan, Zulfiqur Babar, Aizaz Cheema


Peshawar Zalmi: Kamran Akmal (wk), Dawid Malan, Marlon Samuels, Mohammad Hafeez, Haris Sohail, Sohaib Maqsood, Darren Sammy (c), Chris Jordan, Wahab Riaz, Hasan Ali, Mohammad Asghar