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Lahore Qalandars take on Peshawar Zalmi in the Pakistan Super League.
The game will be played on Monday, February 21. The first ball will be bowled at 7:30pm local time (2:30pm GMT).
The game will be held at the Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore.
The game pits second-placed Lahore Qalandars against third-placed Peshawar Zalmi, as the two sides battle for second spot.
Lahore have spent most of the competition at the top end of the table, and have maintained that form through to the end of the regular season, currently with six wins from nine games.
They have won three of their last five, including a 52-run victory over runaway leaders Multan Sultans in game 17, but did also lose to then-winless Karachi Kings by 22 runs.
Their most recent win came over Islamabad United, courtesy of a 102* off 49 balls from Harry Brook and a useful 51 from 41 from Fakhar Zaman, before skipper Shaheen Shah Afridi took two wickets in two balls in the powerplay.
Peshawar have also been in good form, also winning three of their last five, and come into this fixture with momentum.
After consecutive losses to Multan Sultans, they recorded a 55-run win over Karachi Kings and a 24-run victory over Quetta Gladiators, before inflicting a 10-run defeat on struggling Islamabad United to race up the table.
They will also be out for revenge after Lahore Qalandars won the reverse fixture by 29 runs and will hope to use their momentum.
Harry Brook made a terrific century in Lahore's win on Saturday [Arif Ali/AFP via Getty Images]
Zaman has been the standout player for Lahore Qalandars and is the only player to score more than 500 runs in the competition (521), so he is the key wicket Peshawar Zalmi will target.
Zaman has more than Lahore's next two highest scorers combined, so if Lahore are to win it is crucial that he bats deep, supported by the likes of Phil Salt, Kamran Ghulam and Brook.
Peshawar Zalmi will likely look to right-arm seamer Salman Irshad to disrupt the Lahore lower order, after his 12 wickets in seven matches, but Peshawar's next-highest wicket-taker is Usman Qadir, on just eight.
In comparison, Lahore's attack has been far more lethal with Afridi and Zaman Khan both taking 14 wickets, so the likes of Ben Cutting and Liam Livingstone in the Peshawar batting line-up will have their work cut out to score big.
Lahore Qalandars, who have lost star spinner Rashid Khan, have the highest run-scorer in the competition and three of the top six wicket-takers, so there will be numerous threats for Peshawar Zalmi to contend with.
Matches played: 14
Lahore Qalandars wins: 6
Peshawar Zalmi wins: 8
It’s set to be a perfect evening in Lahore on Sunday, with temperatures hovering around 27 degrees Celsius.
Lahore Qalandars: Shaheen Shah Afridi, Rashid Khan, David Wiese, Haris Rauf, Mohammad Hafeez, Sohail Akhtar, Zeeshan Ashraf, Ahmed Daniyal, Fakhar Zaman, Phil Salt, Harry Brook, Abdullah Shafique, Kamran Ghulam, Dean Foxcroft, Zaman Khan, Maaz Khan, Samit Patel, Syed Faridoun
Supplementary round: Mohammad Imran Randhawa, Akif Javed
Partial replacement: Ben Dunk, Matthew Potts
Peshawar Zalmi: Wahab Riaz, Liam Livingstone, Shoaib Malik, Sherfane Rutherford, Haider Ali, Saqib Mahmood, Hussain Talat, Tom Kohler-Cadmore, Hazratullah Zazai, Usman Qadir, Salman Irshad, Arshad Iqbal (Covid replacement: Ammad Butt), Sameen Gul, Kamran Akmal (Covid replacement: Imam-ul-Haq), Sirajuddin, Mohammad Amir Khan, Ben Cutting, Mohammad Haris
Supplementary round: Mohammad Umer, Sohail Khan
Partial replacements: Matt Parkinson, Pat Brown
Rashid Khan's PSL stint has come to an end [Asif Hassan/AFP via Getty Images]
Lahore Qalandars: Fakhar Zaman, Abdullah Shafique, Kamran Ghulam, Mohammad Hafeez, Phil Salt, Harry Brook, David Wiese, Samit Patel, Shaheen Afridi, Haris Rauf, Zaman Khan.
Peshawar Zalmi: Hazratullah Zazai, Mohammad Haris, Liam Livingstone, Shaoib Malik, Hussain Talat, Sherfane Rutherford, Ben Cutting, Wahab Riaz, Usman Qadir, Mohammad Umar, Salman Irshad
A Lahore win is available at 5/6, with a Peshawar Zalmi victory touted at 11/10.
Peshawar Zalmi may have won their last three on the bounce, but Lahore Qalandars have the individuals who can take the game away from Peshawar. Lahore Qalandars win.
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