PCB looking to sign exchange contracts with Sri Lanka and Bangladesh – Cricket News Update
The Pakistan Cricket Board has expressed the intent to sign exchange contracts with both Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) and the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB), in order to ensure that players from both countries will play in the PCB’s T20 league when it is launched,
in exchange for the participation of Pakistani players in the Sri Lanka Premier League and the Bangladesh Premier League.
“While we allow our players to go and play in the Sri Lanka Premier League if they are not required for national duty, under the exchange contract by the PCB, the Sri Lankan board will also make its players available for our Premier League whenever it is
launched,” PCB chairman Zaka Ashraf said in conversation with the Express newspaper. “... we hope to send a draft of the proposed contract to them soon.”
He also went on to add that the SLC had invited him to watch the first game of the 3-match Test series due to be played between http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Sri-Lanka-c758 and Pakistan from June 22 to 26 at the Galle International Stadium.
In addition to the SPL, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Ashraf-c46397 also mentioned a similar contract which the PCB wished to sign in regards to the participation of Bangladeshi players in the PCB’s proposed league, after Pakistani cricketers had played in the BPL earlier this year.
“We allowed our players to go and play in the Bangladesh Premier League [BPL] and once this contract is done, it will ensure Bangladeshi players will also take part in our Premier League,” he said.
The proposed T20 tournament is among the PCB’s many attempts to initiate a revival of international cricket in the country. With foreign countries refusing to tour http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Pakistan-c755 owing to the uncertain security situation in the country, the board has been forced
to organise home series abroad in neutral venues such as the UAE.
The extra expenses have left the board in need of a new source of income, and the launch of a T20 tournament, modelled on the highly successful Indian Premier League and the newly launched http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Bangladesh-c747 Premier League, has been among the PCB’s top-priority
projects of late.
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