Until 2025, the Pakistan Cricket Board is unlikely to add more clubs to the PSL. Adding new teams to the league has apparently been rejected by the league’s present owners.
It is doubtful that the PCB will add more clubs to the PSL until the competition’s tenth season. Multans Ultans, Karachi Kings, Islambad United, Peshawar Zalmi, Quetta Gladitators. Lahore Qalandars are the six clubs that now make up the franchise league.
Najam Sethi, a former PCB chairman, had already suggested adding two extra teams to the PSL. But before it could be put into practice, he quit his job. The discussions on include new teams have also started after a number of people were suggested as potential candidates to become new team owners in the competition.
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The addition of more teams to the league is not possible, according to a number of sources
The PCB chairman, Zaka Ashraf, is unwilling to decide anything in this area. The PCB is prohibited from adding clubs to the league for the first ten years by the terms of the central pool agreement.
Due to a busy schedule, Ashraf has not been able to meet with any franchise owners. But he plans to convene a meeting of the governing council soon to look into the problems with franchise owners and find solutions.
The league’s present owners, according to insiders, are against adding more teams. One of the team members claimed that after years of hard work and planting a seed. Which has since grown into a fruitful tree, new individuals now want to benefit from it. As it stands, the PSL will continue to be a six-team competition, while additional teams may be added to extend the league.
Lahore Qalandars won the Pakistan Super League’s eighth season’s championship by edging Multan Sultans by just one run in the championship game. Notably, it was the second championship for the team led by Shaheen Afridi in the competition.
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