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Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) plans to have a mini replacement replacement for the remaining PSL matches while franchises have trouble ensuring the availability of foreign players who left the country following the recent Indian-Pakistani military conflict. The PCB planned to move the Super League Pakistan (PSL) to the water, but suspended it after the tension increased on the border. The PCB announced Tuesday that the league would be completed in the window from May 17 to 25 but did not share the complete calendar.
“This is due to the problems that the Board of Directors and the Franchises, excluding Multan Sultans, are faced with convincing their players abroad to return for the remaining matches to conclude the League this year,” said a franchise official.
He said that Multan had only one match and that he was out of racing for the playoffs, he was not profitable for them to remember their players abroad.
“But for Karachi, Lahore, Quetta, Islamabad and Peshawar who are in the running for the playoffs, their officials and the table are in contact with the players of the players to make them return to Pakistan for the remaining matches,” he said.
He said that if the franchises did not grow much success to convince their overseas players to return, the PCB would plan to have a mini replacement replacement.
“The other option is that the league regulations allow teams to play without any foreign player or at the same time that they can align a maximum of four players abroad,” he said.
The source said that some franchises had managed to convince some of their signatures abroad to return, but many of those who left for their country via Dubai, are not eager to return so shortly after the conflict.
Karachi Kings, however, managed to convince their captain David Warner to return with two other Australian players.
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