Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairperson Mohsin Naqvi has promised to take strict action against foreign players who have withdrawn their names from joining the 2026 Pakistan Super League (PSL). Indian Premier League (IPL) As injury replacement.
A common theme is where foreign players are created as part of the Registered Available Player Pool (RAPP) ahead of the IPL auction. However, when they remain unsold, they are bought by PSL franchises. But when an IPL team needs to find replacements for their injured stars, they can only choose players from the RAPP list.
This has already seen Blessing Muzarabani leaving the Pakistan league and joining Kolkata Knight Riders as a replacement for Mustafizur Rahman, while recent reports have pegged Lahore Qalandars' Dasun Shanaka as a replacement for the injured Sam Curran at Rajasthan Royals in the mega Indian T20 tournament.
Naqvi was clearly unhappy with the players skipping psl To join your rival league. However, the PCB chairman does not believe in changing the tournament dates in the future to avoid clashes with the IPL due to the lack of windows in the international cricket calendar.
“We will take action against those players as per the rules. There was a case last year also. [Corbin Bosch, who was banned from the PSL for one year]And this time also the same will happen. Conflict with IPL is not an issue because if players are going there then we are getting good players here also. “We can't afford to postpone the PSL because we don't have any other window throughout the year,” ESPNcricinfo quoted Naqvi as saying.
An example of a player opting out of the PSL to play in the IPL happened last year when Corbin Bosch, who was the diamond pick for Peshawar Zalmi in the PSL draft, jumped ship to represent Mumbai Indians.
It is also noteworthy that there are already other foreign players who have withdrawn from the 2026 PSL season citing personal reasons. This includes Jake Fraser-McGurk and Spencer Johnson from Australia, Gudakesh Moti from the West Indies and fast bowler Ottneil Bartman from South Africa. Johnson has been seen as a possible replacement for the injured Nathan Ellis in CSK in the upcoming season.
The PSL will begin on Thursday, March 26, two days before the start of the IPL. However, due to the ongoing oil crisis caused by the Gulf War the tournament will be played behind closed doors and only in Lahore and Karachi.
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