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The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) is considering having a mini replacement draft for the remaining PSL matches as the franchises are struggling to ensure the availability of foreign players recently in view of India-Pakistan military conflict. The PCB Pakistan was planning to move the Super League (PSL) to the UAE, but suspended it after the tension on the border increased. The PCB announced on Tuesday that the league would be completed in the window of 17-25 May, but did not share the full program.
A franchise official said, “This is due to the problems in which the boards and franchisees are convinced to return their foreign players for the remaining matches to wrap the league this year, except for the Multan Sultans.”
He said that since Multan had only one match left and was out of running for the playoffs, it was not cost effective for him to remember his foreign players.
He said, “But for Karachi, Lahore, Quetta, Islamabad and Peshawar, who are running for the playoffs, their officers and board players are in touch with agents, who meet them to return to Pakistan for the remaining matches,” he said.
He said that if the franchise did not get much success in assuring his foreign players to return the PCB, he would consider having a mini replacement draft.
“The second option is that the League rules allow teams to play without any foreign players and at the same time they can field a maximum of four foreign players,” he said.
The source said that some franchises were successful in convincing some of their foreign signals to return, but many people who had left for their countries through Dubai were not willing to return immediately after the struggle.
Karachi Kings, however, managed to convince his captain David Warner to return to return with two other Australian players.
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