The Pakistan Cricket Board has confirmed that the remaining matches within the Pakistan Super League have been moved to the United Arab Emirates on account of escalating tensions with India.
The PCB mentioned it had made its determination in response to India allegedly focusing on the match between Quetta Gladiators and Islamabad United in Rawalpindi on Wednesday night with a surveillance drone.
It follows the postponement of a match on Thursday between Karachi Kings and Peshawar Zalmi that concerned three English gamers – James Vince, Tom Kohler-Cadmore and Luke Wood.
In a press release, the PCB confirmed that the eight remaining fixtures of the T20 event, scheduled for Rawalpindi, Multan and Lahore, will all be staged within the UAE.
PCB chair Mohsin Naqvi added: “The PCB has all the time stood by the place that politics and sports activities must be stored aside.
“Nevertheless, in view of the extraordinarily irresponsible and harmful Indian act of focusing on the Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium, which was manifestly executed to disrupt the continued HBL Pakistan Tremendous League X, the PCB has determined to shift the remaining matches to UAE in order that the home in addition to overseas cricketers, who’re our valuable company, may be saved from the attainable reckless focusing on by India.”
