Source: Telegraph
After speculation that the England and Wales Cricket Board might investigate the possibility of setting up a league to rival the money-spinning Indian Premier League, it has emerged that the Pakistan Cricket Board are also hoping to climb aboard the Twenty20 league bandwagon.
Taking a cue from the IPL, the Pakistan Cricket Board met yesterday to discuss a proposed “Pakistan Premier League”, which would likely be based on a similar format to that of the IPL. Board members are believed to see it as a positive step towards establishing domestic cricket in the country, and will give the green light when sponsorship and timetabling allows.
Business and commerce are already expressing curiosity in the venture, according to PCB chairman Nasim Ashraf, who expressed that the board are now waiting to confirm the interest.
Ashraf explained: “We will be waiting for a suitable time to start the tournament as many corporate institutions here have also shown their willingness to sponsor the event.”
The move towards setting up a new league is unlikely to gather steam too soon. Present and future tours scheduled by the International Cricket Council will not leave any room for a new tournament for some time.
“There is presently no gap available for organising such an event and the PCB would be working on the details,” Ashraf said.
Rumours of a Pakistani edition of the Twenty20 league began late last year, setting an initial target of beginning in Oct 2008 with six franchised teams, each with four foreign players.
However, the version of the PPL unveiled yesterday involves 13 teams based on the number of regions in the domestic set-up, while each side would be allowed two foreign players. Priority would remain with local players, however, according to Ashraf.
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1 Asad Khan // Nov 28, 2008 at 12:53 am
Assalam o Alikum!
My name is Asad Khan I just wanted to share my thoughts with PCB officials. Some ideas came into my mind or you can say I came with these thoughts here are some suggestions which you might concern them for the sake of Pakistan cricket if Indian team doesn’t come to Pakistan’s soil
These ideas should be implemented
Suggestions
1- Organize a tournament with teams including team of Pakistan national team Pakistan “A” team Pakistan U-19 team also included Lahore Badsha’s team from ICL one team from Karachi , Lahore, Islamabad , Rawalpindi , Peshawar , Quetta , Sialkot , Multan , Faisalabad , PIA , HBL , KRL and NBP.
2- Find a sponsor for tournament or a franchise for each team.
3-Player should be awarded with some handsome amount of money because we know money does attract our players towards good cricket.
4- Give hard time to our young cricketer find out if they really are capable to deal with high class bowling batting and fielding.
5-Find the real talent if a good young batsman is really capable for playing high quality bowling same goes with the bowlers test their bowling skills against some quality bating.
The reason I am writing this mail to you, because normally our young cricketers don’t get high quality competition in our domestic cricket our young batsman score runs against low quality bowling and our young bowlers came to international arena against low quality bating.
Reason for this tournament 1- is to give something to entertain for cricket lovers in Pakistan 2-is to test the skills of our young cricketer and 3- is to suck out the talent from all Pakistan.
Thanks I hope you would like my suggestions but more importantly is to implement on it.
Thanks a lot
Allah Hafiz
Pakistan Zindabad.
2 Asad Khan // Nov 28, 2008 at 12:55 am
THE PAKISTAN DOMESTIC CRICKE TOURNAMENT 2009
NAME OF TEAMS
1-Pakistan National team
2-Pakistan “A”
3-Pakistan U-19
4-Lahore Badsha’s
5-Karachi
6-Lahore
7-Peshawar
8-Islamabad
9-Faisalabad
10-Multan
11-Sialkot
12-Quetta
13-PIA (Pakistan International Airlines)
14-NBP (National Bank of Pakistan)
15-KRl (Khan Research laboratories)
16-HBL (Habib Bank of Pakistan)
TOURNAMENT FORMAT AND GROUP POSITION
GROUP-A
1-Pakistan “A”
2-Karachi
3-PIA
4-Faisalabad
GROUP-B
1-Pakistan U-19
2-NBP
3-Lahore
4-KRL
GROUP-C
1-Pakistan National
2-Sialkot
3-HBL
4-Peshawar
GROUP-D
1-Lahore Badsha’s
2-Multan
3-Quetta
4-Islamabad
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