Lahore
New tiff has emerged between the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) and the franchise owners over the salary cap for players ahead of the seventh edition of the Pakistan Super League (PSL), private TV channel reported Sunday.
According to the news channel, annoyance of PCB Chairman Ramiz Raja was clearly visible during a meeting with the PSL franchise owners during which they were called out for “meddling” with Pakistan cricket. With PSL 7 just a few months away, Raja and franchise owners had a heated argument, the media report said.
he seventh edition of the league is all set to begin in mid-January next year, with drafts of the league expected to take place in the second week of December.
“PSL is our home and you guys are intruders,” a source inside the board quoted the PCB chairman as saying. “You have destroyed [the] windows and doors of our house.”
Quetta Gladiators owner Nadeem Omer replied that PSL existed because of the franchises. “We are the investors of the league,” he said. “We have six successful seasons of the league and it is our home.”
The PCB chairman asked players’ management committee member Imran Ahmed Khan why renowned T20 cricketers like Australia’s Glenn Maxwell and others stayed away from PSL.
