Pakistan Super League (PSL) 2025 should start on Friday, but the teams were concerned after a fire broke out on the sixth floor of the Serena hotel in Islamabad, where the players stayed. The district administration confirmed that the fire came from the top floor and that the fire service quickly took care of the situation. None of the guests and staff, who included cricket players and PSL officials, was injured because of the fire and they were evacuated correctly. “None of the players or franchises encountered any difficulties. The fire died in time. He did not spread inside the hotel,” said Salman Naseer, CEO of PSL, to Samaa TV.
“The firefighters’ teams launched their operations to quickly turn the fire,” he added.
“Six fire fighting vehicles and 50 firefighters participated in the operation to put out the fire. The fire died within half an hour,” said ADC’s urgency director Zafar Iqbal.
When the PSL 2025 was opened, Islamabad United confronts Lahore Qalandars at the Rawalpindi cricket stadium.
The management of the Pakistani Super League, in order to minimize the direct conflict of the antenna time with the Indian Premier League, planned its games an hour after the start of the IPL games.
Salman Naseer, the CEO of the PSL, said in a podcast that PSL matches will start from 8:00 p.m., an hour after the IPL games start at 7 a.m.
Friday, the PSL will start in Rawalpindi.
This is the first time that the two leagues have been launched that they compete in the same window.
Naseer said they had no choice but to plan the PSL in the April-May window due to the calendar wrapped earlier this year.
“This is not an ideal situation, but we are convinced that the PSL has its own fans base and will attract the usual eyelashes,” said Naseer.
“The PSL has always produced quality competitive cricket and this year, we should also see the same fans and cricket fans, in the end, we just want to see competitive and entertaining matches,” he said.
He said that since the PSL was in its 10th year, a number of new things have been added to make the quality of first -rate distribution.
Naseer added that an advantage of having the PSL in the same window that the IPL was that the franchises had been able to sign stars abroad renowned, which are not sold in the IPL auction.
He also said that the PSL had received interested parties to buy two new teams that would be added to the tournament by next year.
Asked about the difficult relationship between some of the franchise owners and the management of the PSL, some of whom had publicly published on the PCB for its management of the League, Naseer said that it was not appropriate for anyone to wash dirty linen in public.
“Look, we think that all the franchises have benefited from their association with the PSL over the years. But we also think that instead of becoming a public, it would be preferable that they were talking and communicated to us directly on all the problems they could have.” Naseer said that all franchise owners would now receive revised costs for the next 10 years and that everyone had the right to accept the PCB offer or decide otherwise.
(With PTI entries)
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