The PCB is anxious that the expansion of Indian funding in franchise T20 leagues may go away their gamers locked out of alternatives to develop abroad.
Pakistan’s gamers aren’t formally barred from representing these groups and there’s understood to have been engagement between the SA20 and PCB over Pakistan gamers. However Future Excursions Programme commitments – Pakistan are on account of play house sequence towards New Zealand and West Indies in early 2023 – means the involvement of main internationals this season would have been restricted or not possible regardless. The SA20 does hope, nonetheless, to have Pakistani gamers take part sooner or later.
There have additionally been preliminary talks with different boards to debate the potential for reciprocal preparations relating to No-Objection Certificates (NOCs), which may see different boards launch their gamers to seem within the PSL in alternate for the PCB granting NOCs to play in different leagues.
The emergence of the SA20 and the ILT20 may even have a big impression on the PSL. Whereas the leagues don’t conflict immediately with the PSL, participant salaries are substantial – significantly within the UAE, the place main abroad gamers stand to earn as much as USD $450,000.
The depreciation of the Pakistan rupee towards the US greenback is one other main problem for the PSL since abroad gamers’ salaries are paid in {dollars}. Because of this, gamers incomes the identical wage in 2022 and 2023 may find yourself costing the league considerably more cash in actual phrases.
Whereas the PCB is optimistic that a variety of main abroad gamers will nonetheless be concerned within the PSL subsequent yr, they’re seen because the “garnish” that might be added to a thriving pool of native expertise: Pakistan don’t play worldwide cricket through the PSL’s March window so their main gamers are totally out there.
