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LIVE Cricket Score, PSL 2018 final, Islamabad United vs Peshawar Zalmi at Karachi: Kamran, Fletcher open
Date: Sunday, 25 March, 2018 20:38 IST
Match Status: Play in Progress
Venue: National Stadium, Karachi
Venue: National Stadium, Karachi
Pakistan Super League 2018,Live Cricket Score and Updates
HIGHLIGHTS
Teams:
Peshawar Zalmi: Kamran, Fletcher, Hafeez. Nasim, Dawson, Sammy (c), Jordan, Hasan Ali, Wahab, Umaid, Sameen Gul
Islamabad United: Ronchi, Walton, Duminy (c), Farhan, Hussain, Asif, Khan, Faheem, Ammad Butt, Sami, Patel
Peshawar opt for an unchanged side, while Misbah-ul-Haq misses out for Islamabad, with Duminy leading the side in his absence.
TOSS: Peshawar Zalmi win the toss, and skipper Darren Sammy opts to bat.
FOUR ! Back-to-back fours for Fletcher, who smacks the ball towards the cow-corner fence on this occasion! PZ 11/0
FOUR ! Fletcher finally gets going! Makes room, and lofts the ball over the umpire's head for a four! PZ 7/0
PZ 3/0 after 2 overs (Akmal 1, Fletcher 1) Sami from the other end. Akmal sets off for a run off the penultimate delivery after getting rapped high on his pad, with Sami appealing unsuccessfully for an lbw. Fletcher gets off the mark with a single off the last ball.
Mohammad Sami bowls from the other end. Pace to go with spin at the start of the innings.
PZ 1/0 after 1 over (Akmal 1, Fletcher 0) Samit Patel starts off for United, and it is Akmal who gets Zalmi off the mark with a single off the third delivery of the innings. Fletcher yet to get going after facing three balls.
Samit Patel bowls the first over for Islamabad United, with Kamran Akmal and Andre Fletcher walking out to bat at the start of the Peshawar Zalmi innings.
Teams : Peshawar Zalmi : Kamran, Fletcher, Hafeez. Nasim, Dawson, Sammy (c), Jordan, Hasan Ali, Wahab, Umaid, Sameen Gul Islamabad United : Ronchi, Walton, Duminy (c), Farhan, Hussain, Asif, Khan, Faheem, Ammad Butt, Sami, Patel Peshawar opt for an unchanged side, while Misbah-ul-Haq misses out for Islamabad, with Duminy leading the side in his absence.
TOSS: Peshawar Zalmi win the toss, and skipper Darren Sammy opts to bat.
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Hello and welcome to Firstpost's coverage of the final of the Pakistan Super League which will be played between Islamabad United and Peshawar Zalmi which will be played at Karachi.
Islamabad United vs Peshawar Zalmi, Pakistan Super League final, latest update: Samit Patel starts off for United, and it is Akmal who gets Zalmi off the mark with a single off the third delivery of the innings. Fletcher yet to get going after facing three balls.
Preview: Pakistan's biggest city will stage a high-profile cricket match for the first time in nine years on Sunday. The Pakistan Super League final will be held amid heavy security at a newly renovated National Stadium in Karachi.
More than 8,000 security personnel have been deployed for the Twenty20 final between Islamabad United and last year's champions, Peshawar Zalmi.
Presidential-like security has been put in place on routes from the hotel to the stadium. For practice on Saturday, the team vans were surrounded by a fleet of security vehicles carrying armed guards.
Peshawar Zalmi skipper Darren Sammy and Islamabad United stand-in skipper JP Duminy.
"It's been really good. All the logistical works have been done behind the scenes, and we've been brought here pretty safely," Islamabad United stand-in captain JP Duminy said.
"It's obviously going to be an exciting occasion to be part of PSL final and more specifically being in Karachi."
Islamabad United's regular captain, Misbah-ul-Haq, has not fully recovered from a hand injury.
The last major game with international players in Karachi was in February 2009, a Pakistan-Sri Lanka test.
On the same tour, terrorists attacked the Sri Lanka team convoy at Lahore that March. Six Pakistan policemen and two civilians were killed, and six members of the Sri Lanka team were injured.
That resulted in an end to international cricket in the country, and the Pakistan Cricket Board moved its home matches to the United Arab Emirates.
The PCB has gradually convinced international players to return, and Lahore hosted the first PSL final last year, and there were Twenty20s organized against a World XI (three matches) and Sri Lanka (one).
A reluctance from some international PSL players to play in Pakistan remains. The preliminary matches were played at Dubai and Sharjah in the UAE.
Australian Shane Watson (Quetta Gladiators) and Englishmen Eoin Morgan (Karachi) and Kevin Pietersen (Quetta) refused to accompany their teams to Lahore this week for two PSL eliminators.
The absence of the top stars hurt both franchises and drew an angry response from Gladiators coach and former Pakistan captain Moin Khan.
"We, in the coming season, should only pick players who have the consent to visit Pakistan," Moin said after losing the first eliminator against Zalmi.
"We do not need to push for individuality as our league has now become a bigger brand ... we don't need to get these players who don't want to come to Pakistan. In fact, this is hurting Pakistan as it is sending a negative signal and affects our country's image as well."
Other internationals playing in the final include Peshawar Zalmi's Darren Sammy of West Indies and Chris Jordan of England, and for Islamabad United, JP Duminy of South Africa and Luke Ronchi of New Zealand.
With inputs from AP