azhar09
Age: 30 
4760 days old here
Total Posts: 263
Points : 156
Location:
karachi, Pakistan
Status : Offline |
Subject : "Pakistani Premier League is in Our Plans" : Sultan Rana
As Pakistan's cricketers
look on across the border
in envy at the colour, riches
and glitz of the Indian
Premier League and
wonder when their time will come to "rejoin the IPL
party", the Pakistan Cricket
Board are once again
pushing the idea of an
offshore Pakistani Premier
League. ; Sultan
Rana, the chief of PCB's
domestic cricket
department stated that the
setting up of the Pakistani Premier League has been in
their plans for the past
couple of years.
"We first considered the
idea a couple of years ago.
The documents were complete and we were all
set to go, but the attack on
the Sri Lankan team meant
that we had to shelve all of
our plans at that time"
stated Rana. Rana though is hopeful
that the plans that were
prepared a couple of years
ago and subsequently
shelved will not go to
waste and can be tweaked slightly and implemented
soon.
"I recently went to Sri
Lanka during the World
Cup and spoke to many
other countries Board representatives, but apart
from Sri Lanka they are
reluctant to send their
players to Pakistan, so that
presents a problem for us.
We simply cannot host the tournament in Pakistan if
we want to attract the top
players."
Whilst the option of
hosting the Pakistani
Premier League in Pakistan is an unlikely eventuality at
the moment, the other
option of hosting the
competition in Dubai is
something that is much
more likely according to Rana.
"What we are trying to do
is to organise a competition
in Dubai. This idea was
discussed in the past and
has very much been in our plans and is still on the
table. I'm sure we (PCB) can
organise this tournament,
which will run along the
lines of the Indian Premier
League."
no likes.
|