The tussle over the PSL schedule has started
Karachi: The tussle over the PSL schedule has started while the franchises have started putting pressure on the PCB.
In Karachi, PSL 6 was postponed after 14 matches due to corona cases. The PCB is now looking for suitable dates for the remaining 20 matches. Initial consultations revealed three windows, but now the franchises are in March. Insisting on holding.
He says that first look at your event, if you don't play the rest of the matches now, then it will not be possible to get a suitable window. For IPL, foreign cricketers have to come to India in the first week of April before they come to Pakistan and play in PSL. Participate, so that cricket will be full of competition and the quality of the league will be maintained, matches will not be possible in the scorching heat of June.
Foreign cricketers will also be exhausted at the end of the Indian event on May 30. The English T20 Blast is scheduled to start on June 9, before which the players will have to be quarantined. Important foreign cricketers will arrive in September and November due to other engagements. It will not be possible.
Sources said that the owners have offered the PCB to book the entire hotel itself and also talk to the South African board officials, as well as assured the full cooperation of top national figures in organizing the event. Don't agree with the suggestion.
According to sources, the authorities have told the franchises that it is not possible to postpone an international cricket series at the last minute, as this could worsen relations between the two boards, as well as many other issues, including broadcasting, from Zimbabwe. It may be the case but the prosthetic cricketers will be busy in the IPL in April and May. If the series is postponed now, then how will their board be able to reschedule it? There are other engagements ahead.
Board sources further said that due to the increase in Corona cases in several cities including Rawalpindi and Lahore, the NCOC has imposed many restrictions there as well.
If the franchises wanted to hold matches in Lahore, how will they be able to host matches there now? An important virtual meeting is expected on Thursday in which franchise owners and board officials will discuss matters, at which point it seems possible to choose between the September and November windows.
It may be recalled that under the current plan, the national team will leave for South Africa in the fourth week of this month, where the first ODI is scheduled on April 2, and after the series, it will also travel to Zimbabwe.
In this regard, when the correspondent "Express" contacted Cricket South Africa and inquired that according to some reports, Pakistan wants to reschedule the bilateral series for PSL matches? Has there been any contact in this regard? Do they think it would be possible to postpone the series in such a short time?
In response, female media manager Sipokazi Soknelli said that our board does not want to talk about these issues, however, she said that preparations for the series are underway, matches will be played on empty fields without spectators.
To a question, he said that Pakistan team will have to quarantine for 5 days after arrival in South Africa, the first few days will be strict and then semi-quarantine-like situation, during which small groups and 5 days later the team will be allowed to train together.
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