LAHORE
(TheSportsNext) August 29, 2012: Chairman Pakistan Cricket Board Chaudhry
Zaka Ashraf said Wednesday that the first edition of the Pakistan premier
League will not be played until next year.
The PCB authorities have been planning the country’s
international Twenty20 league in a bid to make international cricketers play in
Pakistan which has been facing the threat of terrorism and the international
cricket teams are not willing to tour the country ever since Sri Lankan cricket
team was attacked in Lahore in 2009.
Talking to reporters in Multan the other day, Chaudhry Zaka
Ashraf said, "I think, we should be able to launch it sometime in March
next year and we will be inviting overseas players to participate in the event
and make it successful.
All the other regional countries including India (Indian
Premier League), Bangladesh (Bangladesh Premier League) and Sri Lanka (Sri
Lanka Premier League) have successfully launched their versions of Twenty20
leagues but the untoward law and order situation in Pakistan is not helping the
PCB cause to have its own Twenty20 league.
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