2015-11-18

Venue: Abu Dhabi

Started Date: 4th Feb to 24th Feb 2016

The Pakistan Super League (PSL) is an expert Twenty20 cricket association in Pakistan made out of 5 member clubs speaking to urban areas. Headquartered in Lahore, the PSL is generally thought to be the chief expert cricket group in Pakistan. The PSL Cup will be honored yearly to the group playoff champion toward the end of every season.After years of battling security concerns and inner hassles, the authorities have lined up a spectacular contest. The matches will be held, 24 in all, from 4th to 24th February 2016 just before the World T20. The authorities have intelligently chosen February as it doesn’t hold any other T20 event in the main.

The inaugural release of the PSL Pakistan Super League 2016 will see five groups partaking in it with every group speaking to a city. Then again, plans are set up for a development of the PSL to be a 10 group association inside of the following five years. The alliance will supplant the current Haier T20 Cup. The association is relied upon to draw very talented players from everywhere throughout the world, and as of now has players marked from roughly 10 unique nations. Pakistani players will constitute most of the players in the group.

80 players including 25 evaluated international players will make their vicinity felt in the competition that guarantees $1, 00, 000 to the winning group. Here will be 55 neighborhood players locking shoulders with 25 universal intense nuts. Quality universal mentors have been reserved to deal with the 5 groups with exactness and chomp. Previous Pakistan captions Wasim Akram and Ramiz Raja have been restricted in as brand ministers of the competition for the following three years.

The Pakistan t20 league won’t be played in Pakistan yet rather will be based out of UAE. All matches would be played at two grounds – Dubai and Sharjah cricket stadiums which was affirmed by the PCB in September 2015. Prior there were arrangements for the competition to be played in Doha yet that was changed back to UAE where the competition will be played now.

Teams:

A group of 5 teams have been proposed to partake in the inaugural version of the competition battling for matchless quality. Every group will have 16 players to pick its 11 from. This will incorporate the permitted portion of 5 worldwide players. Since there will simply be 20 round robin matches and 4 playoffs; players are relied upon to hold their wellness in the fundamental and legitimize the cash poured on them.

The 5 PSL teams are:

Islamabad Rangers

Karachi Super Stars

Lahore Warriors

Quetta Smashers

Royal Kings Peshawar

Players:

As things stand, there are a large group of international players who have assented to or communicated a genuine enthusiasm for joining in the first player draft of the PSL.

The foreign players are:

Country

Player

West Indies

Chris Gayle, Kerion Pollard, Darren Sammy, Andre Russell, Marlon Samuels, Sunil Narine, Dwayane Bravo, Jason Holder, Lendl Simmons, Dwayne Smith, Samuel Badree, Denesh Ramdin, Tino Best

Sri Lanka

Kumar Sangakkara, Angelo Mathews, Lasith Malinga, Thisara Perera, Tillakaratne Dilshan, Mahela Jayawardene, Ajantha Mendis

New Zealand

Grant Elliott, Martin Guptill, Kane Williamson, Jesse Ryder, James Franklin,

Zimbabwe

Hamilton Masakadza, Brendan Taylor, Elton Chigumbura, Chamunorwa Chibhabha

South Africa

Robin Peterson, Jacques Kallis, Johan Botha

Bangladesh

Shakib Al Hasan, Tamim Iqbal

Netherlands

Ryan ten Doeschate

Ireland

Kevin O’Brien, Paul Stirling

England

James Anderson, James Taylor, Ian Bell, Azhar Mehmood, Jade Dernbach, Chris Jordan, Monty Panesar, Steven Finn, Chris Woakes, Ravi Bopara, Tim Bresnan, Luke Wright, Michael Carberry, Kevin Pietersen

Australia

Shane Watson, Brad Hodge, Brad Haddin, James Faulkner, Brad Hogg, Shaun Tait, Andrew Symonds

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