PSL 2023: PCB And Punjab Government Come To A Compromise As Lahore And Rawalpindi Leg To Be Held At Determined Venues

by CA DeskFebruary 26, 2023

Last Update on: February 26th, 2023 at 09:55 pm

The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) and the Punjab government have come to an agreement that allows the Pakistan Super League (PSL) matches to proceed as planned in Lahore and Rawalpindi. Najam Sethi, the PCB chief, announced on Twitter that they will split the expenses of lighting the routes during PSL 2023 matches in Lahore.

This agreement was reached after the PCB reached out to their patron-in-chief, Shahbaz Sharif, who is also the prime minister of Pakistan. This resolved a standoff that had the potential to relocate all of Lahore’s remaining PSL2023 games to Karachi.

It has been reported that for the past four days, the Punjab government requested that the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) pay PKR 450 million to cover the security arrangements made by the administration.

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Good news: CM Punjab Mohsin Naqvi Saheb has been kind enough to agree to share cost of lighting routes during PSL matches in Lahore. HBl PSL8 matches in Lahore and Pindi shall continue as scheduled.
— Najam Sethi (@najamsethi) February 26, 2023

The government initially claimed that the cost was PKR 900 million, but later revised it and offered to split the cost 50/50, with the PCB paying the remainder. However, the PCB refused to pay, maintaining that providing security was the responsibility of the provincial government.

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The conflict emerged when the PCB strongly opposed the government’s demands, which included requesting extra payments for the PSL 2023 that the board deemed unprecedented.

Regarding the nine games scheduled in Karachi, the Sindh government has not requested that the PCB contribute to the security expenses.

Instead, they are only asking for payment to cover catering expenses for the security personnel, which is estimated to be around PKR 30 million. On the other hand, the Punjab government’s security costs for the matches are approximately PKR 50 million, which the PCB has already paid.

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