Pakistan Super League (PSL)

The Pakistan great League (PSL)  is a professional Twenty20 cricket league in Pakistan composed of 5 member clubs. Established in Lahore, the PSL is taken into consideration to turn out to be the best professional cricket league in Pakistan. The primary season of league is composed of 5 teams and the PSL ordinary season runs via the month of February, with each crew gambling 8 games; the top 4 teams with the quality report will qualify for the post season (or playoffs), culminating inside the championship recreation, the PSL Cup. Instead of running as an association of independently owned teams, the PSL is a unmarried entity wherein every crew (or franchise) is owned and controlled with the aid of the league's traders; the investor-operators control their groups as proprietors. The early industrial rights of franchises had been sold for Rs 985 Crores ($93 million) for a span of 10 years in December 2015. The inaugural season of the match might be held inside the United Arab Emirates from 4 February 2016 to 23 February 2016. The tickets for the occasion went on sale on 7 January 2016, with the PCB tying up with the predominant ticketing website Kyazoonga.

Establishment

In September 2015, the Pakistan Cricket Board formally announced the release of the Pakistan amazing League. Former captains Wasim Akram and Rameez Raja signed as much as grow to be emblem ambassadors of the PSL for the next three years. After several years of making plans, the league will officially start on 4 February 2016, within the United Arab Emirates, after the suspension of operations of its predecessor employer, the Haier T20 League. The PSL without delay took the location as one of the leagues that contested for the yearly T20 cup. The PSL will begin with five groups (all based totally in Pakistan) and, through a series of expansions over the next numerous seasons, will amplify to a ten groups league with  conferences. The league draws many tremendously professional gamers from all over the world and currently has gamers from about 11 different countries. Pakistanis have traditionally constituted the general public of the gamers within the Haier T20 League - in the PSL but there is a better percent of Asian and ecu players. The league makes use of the draft gadget for player recruitment, just like that of the countrywide soccer League inside the usa, instead of the "public sale" utilized in different T20 leagues. The PSL's professional emblem and anthem of the first season have been released on 20 September 2015 in a launching ceremony in Lahore. The anthem, Ab Khel Ke Dikha, become sung by means of Ali Zafar and the PSL emblem became found out through 3Di.[1] The rite was attended via cutting-edge and retired cricketers, as well as Pakistani celebrities.

Expansion Teams

On 2 January 2016, PSL commissioner Najam Sethi announced that one new franchise could be introduced to the league each season till ten groups of Pakistan wonderful League. He additionally indicated that future franchises could promote at a lot better prices than the prevailing authentic five franchises.

In step with PCB press release around 20 parties shown hobby in shopping for franchises.[8] On 18 October 2015 PCB presented tenders for bidding the franchises. In line with declaration by using PCB, the bid winners can be granted proper of every franchise for a time period of 10 years.[9] The fascinated parties had to apply for bidding earlier than 15 November.[10] in line with a press launch, the interested bidding events include ARY Media organization, Omar buddies, Arif Habib institution, Haier, Mobilink in addition to  foreign agencies together with Leonine worldwide sports and Qatar Lubricants employer (QALCO).

all of the five franchises for the PSL have been offered on 3 December 2015. Numerous corporations sold the bidding documents, however only seven provided formal proposals, which also covered businesses from the middle East.

  Team      City             Owner             Price     Ten Year      Captain              Head

                                                                             Agreement                             Coach                 Islamabad       Islamabad.       Leonine Global Sports         US$1.5        US$15 Million    Misbah-ul-Haq             Dean Jones                   United      Capital Territory         (Ali Naqvi)                         million 

Karachi Kings  Karachi, Sindh      ARY Media Group                  US$2.6       US$26 Million           Shoaib Malik        Mickey Arthur                                                          (Salman Iqbal, CEO)             million 

 Lahore           Lahore,              Qatar Lubricants Company             US$2.5     US$25 Million       Azhar Ali                  Paddy Upton
 Qalandars        Punjab              Limited (Fawad Rana, MD)       million 
                             
                                                           
Peshawa    Peshawar, Khyber         Haier Pakistan                     US$1.6         US$16 Million       Shahid Afridi    Mohammad Akram  
 Zalmi        Pakthunkhwa         (Javed Afridi, CEO)               million    

  
Quetta            Quetta,                 Omar Associates                     US$1.1        US$11 Million      Sarfraz Ahmed         Moin Khan
Gladiators     Balochistan        (Nadeem Omar, Director)          million

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