Peshawar Zalmi
Peshawar Zalmi defeated Quetta Gladiators to win the PSL in 2017 Getty

The 2018 Pakistan Super League (PSL) is the third edition of the domestic T20 league that will be played in the United Arab Emirates and Pakistan between 22 February and 25 March.

The first two seasons of the PSL had five franchises and this year's tournament will see six teams taking part. Multan Sultans became the latest franchise to join the T20 league that will be played over a month, starting from Thursday.

Islamabad United won the tournament in the first season after defeating Quetta Gladiators in the final. The Gladiators finished runners-up in the second season, losing the title to Peshawar Zalmi.

Six franchises taking part in the 2018 PSL season are given below:

  1. Islamabad United
  2. Karachi Kings
  3. Lahore Qalandars
  4. Multan Sultans
  5. Peshawar Zalmi
  6. Quetta Gladiators

IBTimes UK has collated the full squad list of all six franchises are given below. Alex Hales, Sam Bilings, Steven Finn, Eoin Morgan, Ravi Bopara, Luke Wright, Joe Denly, Tymal Mills, Samit Patel and David Willey are the England cricketers who are taking part in the tournament.

Islamabad United

  1. Misbah-ul-Haq (c)
  2. Rumman Raees (vc)
  3. Andre Russell
  4. Alex Hales
  5. JP Duminy
  6. Samit Patel
  7. Chadwick Walton (wk)
  8. Shadab Khan
  9. Faheem Ashraf
  10. Samuel Badree
  11. David Willey
  12. Steven Finn
  13. Mohammad Sami
  14. Sahibzada Farhan
  15. Sam Billings (wk)
  16. Luke Ronchi (wk)
  17. Mohammad Hasan (wk)
  18. Iftikhar Ahmed
  19. Amad Butt
  20. Asif Ali
  21. Hussain Talat
  22. Mohammad Hasnain
  23. Zafar Gohar
  24. Rohail Nazir

Karachi Kings

  1. Imad Wasim (c)
  2. Shahid Afridi. (Vc)
  3. Mohammad Amir
  4. Babar Azam
  5. Tymal Mills
  6. Eoin Morgan
  7. Lendl Simmons
  8. Colin Ingram
  9. Ravi Bopara
  10. Joe Denly
  11. David Wiese
  12. Mohammad Rizwan (wk)
  13. Saifullah Bangash (wk)
  14. Usama Mir
  15. Khurram Manzoor
  16. Hasan Mohsin
  17. Mohammad Irfan
  18. Tabish Khan
  19. Mohammad Taha
  20. Mushtaq Ahmed Kalhoro

Lahore Qalandars

  1. Brendon McCullum (c)
  2. Chris Lynn
  3. Umar Akmal
  4. Sunil Narine
  5. Fakhar Zaman (vc)
  6. Yasir Shah
  7. Mustafizur Rahman
  8. Dinesh Ramdin (wk)
  9. Sohail Khan
  10. Anton Devcich
  11. Mitchell McClenaghan
  12. Cameron Delport
  13. Gulraiz Sadaf (wk)
  14. Bilal Asif
  15. Aamer Yamin
  16. Agha Salman
  17. Sohail Akhtar
  18. Raza Hasan
  19. Shaheen Afridi
  20. Ghulam Mudassar
  21. Imran Khan
  22. Salman Irshad

Multan Sultans

  1. Shoaib Malik (c)
  2. Kieron Pollard (vc)
  3. Imran Tahir
  4. Thisara Perera
  5. Ahmed Shehzad
  6. Darren Bravo
  7. Sohail Tanvir
  8. Junaid Khan
  9. Hardus Viljoen
  10. Kumar Sangakkara (wk)
  11. Umar Gul
  12. Irfan Khan
  13. Sohaib Maqsood
  14. Saif Badar
  15. Ross Whiteley
  16. Umar Siddiq
  17. Kashif Bhatti
  18. Irfan Khan
  19. Mohammad Abbas
  20. Abdullah Shafique
  21. Shan Masood

Peshawar Zalmi

  1. Darren Sammy (c)
  2. Mohammad Hafeez (vc)
  3. Hasan Ali
  4. Tamim Iqbal
  5. Dwayne Smith
  6. Dwayne Bravo
  7. Shakib Al Hasan
  8. Liam Dawson
  9. Andre Fletcher
  10. Wahab Riaz
  11. Evin Lewis
  12. Kamran Akmal (wk)
  13. Haris Sohail
  14. Chris Jordan
  15. Hammad Azam
  16. Mohammad Asghar
  17. Saad Nasim
  18. Sameen Gul
  19. Ibtisam Sheikh
  20. Taimur Sultan
  21. Mohammad Arif
  22. Khushdil Shah

Quetta Gladiators

  1. Sarfraz Ahmed (c) (wk)
  2. Hassan Khan
  3. Kevin Pietersen
  4. Shane Watson
  5. Rilee Rossouw
  6. Jofra Archer
  7. Ben Laughlin
  8. Jason Roy
  9. Albie Morkel
  10. Mahmudullah Riyad
  11. John Hastings
  12. Asad Shafiq. (Vc)
  13. Mohammad Nawaz
  14. Rashid Khan
  15. Chris Green
  16. Rahat Ali
  17. Anwar Ali
  18. Mir Hamza
  19. Umar Amin
  20. Rameez Raja
  21. Saad Ali
  22. Saud Shakeel
  23. Faraz Ahmed
  24. Mohammad Azam Khan
  25. Mohammad Junaid