KARACHI: Finding a window for HBL PSL 10 in the busy schedule has become a big challenge.
The Pakistan Cricket Board traditionally organizes the PSL between January and March, but in the tight schedule of 2025, it is almost impossible to find a window during this period. He also has to go to New Zealand.
It has been announced to hold a one-day triangular series in the country in February, New Zealand and South African teams with green shirts are to participate in it. In February, March, Pakistan will also host the Champions Trophy, although PSL10 There is a lot of time left, but the franchises have already expressed concern in this regard, in the first week of March, Chairman PCB Mohsin Naqvi had the first and so far last meeting with the team owners.
According to the sources, the franchises had proposed to start the league in the end of January next year, it would have ended in February, but the board officials did not agree. Got it should not be wasted.
Interestingly, the South African league will also start in January itself, in the past it did not give importance to the international series for the event and sent a second-tier team to New Zealand, there are still such concerns, PCB Tenth Edition wants to hold it alongside the IPL after the Champions Trophy, however, the franchises do not agree, they feel that already facing a shortage of big foreign cricketers, holding it with the Indian league will add to the problems.
Players like Kieron Pollard, Rashid Khan and Riley Russo may also prefer the IPL due to higher remuneration, similarly if the available players perform well in the PSL, India may be sought as an alternative to impress the Pakistani league. May do, so the clash of dates will affect viewership outside of Pakistan as well.
A proposal was brought forward in September this year, but it was rejected as premature, the English team is to come to Pakistan in October, while the Green Shirts will go to Australia in November, followed by a tour of Zimbabwe in December and South Africa in January. The tour is also fixed, the Pakistani team will go to New Zealand from there, the triangular series is already included in the future tour program, but the PCB announced it again after the ICC meeting.
It should be noted that the 10th edition will be the last event under the existing contracts, after which the number of teams may increase, and the contracts of the existing franchises will also be renewed.
Sources said that the franchise owners wrote a letter to the PCB about three weeks ago and asked for a meeting to discuss the issues, but they did not get any response. It was said that PSL would be made into a separate company in a month, but it could not be done, the letter also expressed the desire to discuss the review of the ninth edition, the permanent rights of the teams and other issues.
On the other hand, PCB sources say that the meeting was not possible due to the Chairman’s busyness, then the Eid holidays came, now the meeting may be possible soon.