PSL 2017 Schedule

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• Thu Feb 9 (20 overs)  20:00 local (16:00 GMT | 21:00 PKT)
  1st Match - Islamabad United v Peshawar ZalmiDubai International Cricket StadiumLIVE
  
  
• Fri Feb 10 (20 overs) 15:30 local (11:30 GMT | 16:30 PKT)
  
  
  2nd Match - Lahore Qalandars v Quetta GladiatorsDubai International Cricket StadiumLIVE


• Fri Feb 10 (20 overs) 20:00 local (16:00 GMT | 21:00 PKT)
  3rd Match - Karachi Kings v Peshawar ZalmiDubai International Cricket Stadium
  

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• Sat Feb 11 (20overs) 15:30 local (11:30 GMT | 16:30 PKT)
  4th Match - Islamabad United v Lahore QalandarsDubai International Cricket Stadium
  

  LIVE
• Sat Feb 11 (20 overs) 20:00 local (16:00 GMT | 21:00 PKT)
  5th Match - Karachi Kings v Quetta GladiatorsDubai International Cricket Stadium
  

  LIVE
• Sun Feb 12 (20overs) 20:00 local (16:00 GMT | 21:00 PKT)
  6th Match - Lahore Qalandars v Peshawar ZalmiDubai International Cricket Stadium
  

  LIVE
• Wed Feb 15 (20overs)  20:00 local (16:00 GMT | 21:00 PKT)
  7th Match - Islamabad United v Quetta GladiatorsDubai International Cricket Stadium
  

  LIVE
• Thu Feb 16 (20 overs) 20:00 local (16:00 GMT | 21:00 PKT)
  8th Match - Karachi Kings v Lahore QalandarsSharjah Cricket Stadium
  

  LIVE
• Fri Feb 17 (20overs) 15:30 local (11:30 GMT | 16:30 PKT)
  9th Match - Peshawar Zalmi v Quetta GladiatorsSharjah Cricket Stadium
  

  LIVE
• Fri Feb 17 (20 overs) 20:00 local (16:00 GMT | 21:00 PKT)
  10th Match - Islamabad United v Karachi KingsSharjah Cricket Stadium
  

  LIVE
• Sat Feb 18 (20 overs) 15:30 local (11:30 GMT | 16:30 PKT)
  11th Match - Lahore Qalandars v Quetta GladiatorsSharjah Cricket Stadium
  

  LIVE
• Sat Feb 18 (20 overs) 20:00 local (16:00 GMT | 21:00 PKT)
  12th Match - Islamabad United v Peshawar ZalmiSharjah Cricket Stadium
  

  LIVE
• Sun Feb 19 (20 overs) 20:00 local (16:00 GMT | 21:00 PKT)
  13th Match - Karachi Kings v Peshawar ZalmiSharjah Cricket Stadium
  

  LIVE
• Mon Feb 20 (20 overs)  20:00 local (16:00 GMT | 21:00 PKT)
  14th Match - Islamabad United v Lahore QalandarsSharjah Cricket Stadium
  

  LIVE
• Thu Feb 23 (20 overs)  20:00 local (16:00 GMT | 21:00 PKT)
  15th Match - Karachi Kings v Quetta GladiatorsDubai International Cricket Stadium
  

  LIVE
• Fri Feb 24 (20 ovs)15:30 local (11:30 GMT | 16:30 PKT)
  16th Match - Lahore Qalandars v Peshawar ZalmiDubai International Cricket Stadium
  

  LIVE
• Fri Feb 24 (20 overs)  20:00 local (16:00 GMT | 21:00 PKT)
  17th Match - Islamabad United v Quetta GladiatorsDubai International Cricket Stadium
  

  LIVE
• Sat Feb 25 (20 overs)  15:30 local (11:30 GMT | 16:30 PKT)
  18th Match - Karachi Kings v Lahore QalandarsDubai International Cricket Stadium
  

  LIVE
• Sat Feb 25 (20 overs) 20:00 local (16:00 GMT | 21:00 PKT)
  19th Match - Peshawar Zalmi v Quetta GladiatorsDubai International Cricket Stadium
  

  LIVE
• Sun Feb 26 (20 overs) 20:00 local (16:00 GMT | 21:00 PKT)
  20th Match - Islamabad United v Karachi KingsDubai International Cricket Stadium
  

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• Tue Feb 28 (20 overs) 20:00 local (16:00 GMT | 21:00 PKT)
  1st Qualifying Final - TBC v TBC (1st v 2nd)Sharjah Cricket Stadium
  

  LIVE
• Wed Mar 1 (20 overs) 20:00 local (16:00 GMT | 21:00 PKT)
  2nd Qualifying Final - TBC v TBC (3rd v 4th)Sharjah Cricket Stadium
  

  LIVE
• Fri Mar 3 (20 overs) 20:00 local (16:00 GMT | 21:00 PKT)
  3rd Qualifying Final - TBC v TBC (Playoff 2 Winner v Playoff 1 Loser)Dubai International Cricket Stadium
  

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• Sun Mar 5 (20 ovs)
  Final - TBC v TBCVenue TBC
  

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Pakistani Domestic Team Lahore Lions issued Indian visa

The uncertainty over Lahore Lions' participation in the Champions League Twenty20 has come to an end after the team was issued their Indian visa. Lions are Pakistan's domestic Twenty20 champions and earned a spot in the CLT20 qualifiers to be held in India later this month but the fragile political relationship between India and Pakistan had thrown doubt over their ability to take part in the tournament.

Lions are led by Mohammad Hafeez and have other big names like Umar Akmal and Ahmed Shehzad in their line-up. They begin their qualifying campaign against Mumbai Indians on September 13, before taking on Sri Lanka's Southern Express and New Zealand's Northern Districts in Raipur, Chhattisgarh. The team will depart for India on the morning of September 9.

"We are departing with confidence," Hafeez said. "We all know how important the first stage is so we are focusing on qualifying for the next round. We, as a team, have been playing some exciting cricket in the last two years and the squad has gutsy players from our domestic circuit so we have an ability to fight at the top level."

Lions had been practising at the National Cricket Academy in Lahore and were forced to train indoors because of excessive rains.

"With a recent spell of heavy rain we weren't able to get the practice we required but we have done ample indoor sessions so there should not be any problem," Hafeez said. "We have the experience of six international cricketers and have quality players from our first-class set-up, who have an urge to represent Pakistan. So we have the right spirit in the team and we are ready for the challenge."

Faisalabad Wolves, Pakistan's domestic T20 champions last year, participated in the Champions League in 2013 and had a nightmarish experience during their stay. They were forced out of their city hotel in Chandigarh and were moved to the Punjab Cricket Association Stadium because their visas were valid only for Mohali.

Hafeez, however, was not worried. "Both India and Pakistan love cricket and we are hoping to have a very good time there," he said. "We are going there with a message of love and I know how much they love Pakistan and its cricketers. Our aim is not only to play good cricket but also to play well off the field."

When asked if the absence of the Pakistan players from the Indian Premier League had affected the level of T20 cricket in Pakistan, Hafeez said that although the players were missing out on the experience of playing in the league, there had not been an impact on the quality of cricket played by the side. He stated that Pakistan were ranked No. 3 on the ICC rankings and that the presence of Pakistani players in the IPL would lift the standard of the league.

"It's not the big gap but still we do well at the highest level, doesn't matter if we are not playing the IPL," Hafeez said. "There is no doubt that the IPL is a platform where the players enhance their skills in all aspects of the game and as cricketers we know that it's always great to come and play the IPL.

"For the last five-six years, the Pakistan players are not playing and we are missing that as cricketers but I don't think it is in any way affecting Pakistan cricket because the talent is always there. We are still No. 3 in this format in the world. So our performance is always great in that form. But yes, if the Pakistan players come to the IPL, it will boost the standard of the league and the players will also enjoy playing in India."

Lions will be the third team from Pakistan to participate in the Champions League, after Wolves in 2013 and Sialkot Stallions in 2012 in South Africa. Both teams had failed to qualify for the main round.

If Lions progress to the main phase of the CLT20, their main team will have to miss out on the National Twenty20 Regional Tournament, which starts in Multan on September 15. In that case, Lahore Lions' B team will take part in the regional tournament, but if Lions are knocked out early from the CLT20, players from the main team will return to participate in the domestic competition.

Ref:http://www.espncricinfo.com/champions-league-twenty20-2014/content/current/story/778985.html

"Frustrated" de Villiers vows help for Amla

New test Captain Amla for South Africa

AB DeVillier has conceded "bafflement" at being disregarded as South Africa's next Test pioneer yet has swore his full backing for new skipper Hashim Amla. De Villiers was viewed as the leader for the position Graeme Smith abandoned in March and in a meeting with Espncricinfo had announced himself "prepared" to lead and surrender the wicket-keeping gloves if essential, however that was insufficient to persuade the choice board.

"I won't steered clear of the issue. I'm disillusioned that I'm not the skipper," de Villiers told the Afrikaans daily paper Beeld. "Everybody has dreams and desire and trusts they will get to be actuality however I acknowledge the circumstances and won't let it inferfere with me and Hashim. It would be exceptionally imbecilic of me in the event that I give it a chance to influence my diversion and my part in the group. The decision is made. I want Hashim to enjoy all that life has to offer and will provide for him the greater part of my backing."

Albeit not de Villiers or convener of selectors Andrew Hudson would uncover when the previous was educated about the choice, Hudson clarified at Amla's arrangement on Tuesday that all the hopefuls for captaincy were counseled and gave their backing to the selectors' decision.

"Courses of action were taken after. We've addressed the fellows who were close and that little gathering of senior players are all strong of Hashim," Hudson said. "We said to the gentlemen 'This is what's advancing' and the fellows said they were behind it 100%. There's this gathering of senior players - Dale (Steyn), Morne (Morkel), Faf (du Plessis), AB, JP (Duminy) - that are behind Hashim and they regard him. He hasn't quite recently got a few gentlemen that help him, he has got a center."

Amla likewise had the sponsorship of his ancestor Smith, who tweeted a message, some piece of which read, "Congratulations my bud and eager to watch you shape proteas test future," while late retiree Jacques Kallis called Amla's advancement "merited."

The purposes behind the choice panel's unanimous suggestion of Amla, which the board approved, was put down to "choosing who we thought was best for the occupation," Hudson said, with a concentrate on guaranteeing the move stage will be as smooth as could reasonably be expected. "Hashim is strong and sets an illustration and he can proceed with the group society going ahead," Hudson said. "One of the extraordinary things is that 90% of what the group needs to be effective is now there and needs to be proceeded and I think Hashim's initiative style will suit this continuum."

Amla's past hesitance to lead - as of late as a year ago he ventures down as bad habit skipper of the constrained overs squads - was not a sympathy toward the selectors, who comprehended his reasoning around then. "It was about attempting to get his batting right. Hashim is very purposeful. His plan was to get his batting right and he felt that was first port of call," Hudson said. "Presently that he is by then where he is more agreeable than what he was with his batting, he feels he can help in different regions. Captaincy is one where he can leave a store that will far outlive the runs that he scores. He can impact adolescents and he is great with individuals."

Hudson additionally denied the selectors were propelled by any longing to split a little controlling gathering, which any semblance of Herschelle Gibbs had guaranteed was in operation. In his history Gibbs said Smith, Kallis, Mark Boucher and de Villiers controlled the group and there were waiting whispers that power equalization stayed set up. "I don't know the amount of a club there truly was," Hudson said. "I think a considerable measure of it was theory."

Hudson additionally disregarded talk there was political weight included in Amla's arrangement, rather concentrating on the positives of giving South Africa's its first full-time commander of color. "It's incredible that we've got a player of color as a skipper yet it wasn't the motivation behind why we picked him. We picked him on legitimacy and as far as his capability and on what we think the group needs in this next period."

At last, the decision between Amla and de Villiers may have been made by, as one insider put it, the need to "keep up group solidness" during an era of incredible change. With Smith and Kallis resigning in fast progression and leaving crevices to be connected to the batting line-up, utilizing a youngster attendant might not have been in the arrangements.

That methods, not surprisingly, de Villiers will be asked to put benefit above self, yet in the event that there is one man who is eager to do that, it is him. He is as of now anticipating the part he can play as Amla's agent at Test level and to guaranteeing South Africa come back to the highest point of the Test rankings.

"As bad habit commander of the group I will nearly work with Hashim and accept we can make a great synthesis," de Villiers said. "I acknowledge that it is not generally moonshine and roses and you can't expect things should constantly go your direction. At last, we are all cooperating to the greatest advantage of South African cricket. I accept Hashim will make an accomplishment of the task. He is an exceptionally accomplished and senior player and is a fine scholar of the amusement. We will all force in the right bearing do to verify our cricket ends up a winner once more."

Ref: http://www.espncricinfo.com/southafrica/content/current/story/750509.html