Pakistan Super League #PSL Discussion Thread

[ZAINmalik75]

The date and schedule for PSL 2026 has been announced recently. It will be the 11th season of this tournament, and it's one of the best leagues after IPL. The tournament will begin on April 16, 2026 and it shall be played across four cities of Pakistan that include Lahore, Karachi, Multan and Rawalpindi.

I wonder if the teams will retain their players or are there news of new players signing up for the PSL teams also ? Also i heard that they may add one or two teams more in this edition of PSL, is it so ?

Yeh once again PSL will start parallel to ipl, honestly most of people around the world believe it may damage PSL but instead of any minior damge they got some extra top class player to be the part, while regarding new team I think gilgit as well as faislabad were top favorite but it will depend on interested bider as they will choose thier team name and rest.
PSL management Behavior regarding Multan sultan owner tareen group is completely unnecessary and unjustified like he tries to just highlight the loop hole and some error at structure but management took it on ego and as a result tareen group officially say goodbye to Multan sultan, hope so addition of two more team will not effect the team stake at total revenue.

[noormcs5]

Yeh once again PSL will start parallel to ipl, honestly most of people around the world believe it may damage PSL but instead of any minior damge they got some extra top class player to be the part, <snip>

How does it benefit the PSL if they start it in parallel to the IPL? I think there are two drawbacks to this. First of all, it is the audience and the global viewership as people will be more interested in watching the IPL matches as compared to the PSL. Secondly, the international players who wanted to play both PSL and IPL, will now only prefer to play IPL as they offer better incentives. Yeah, those players who aren't picked during the IPL auction, they can try participating in the PSL.

[dezoel]

Yeh once again PSL will start parallel to ipl, honestly most of people around the world believe it may damage PSL but instead of any minior damge they got some extra top class player to be the part, <snip>

How does it benefit the PSL if they start it in parallel to the IPL? I think there are two drawbacks to this. First of all, it is the audience and the global viewership as people will be more interested in watching the IPL matches as compared to the PSL. Secondly, the international players who wanted to play both PSL and IPL, will now only prefer to play IPL as they offer better incentives. Yeah, those players who aren't picked during the IPL auction, they can try participating in the PSL.

I agree with this because now IPL is having good control in cricket around the world and ICC is also give good back no international cricket during this time mean good number of fans and cricketers are able to participate in this. Recently few ICC events are playing into India just because of this PSL facing issues even these are temporary and due to some crap and biased policies of PCB things are going on wrong side they needed to be more professional and well organized if they want to have better response.

In last ten years they have done good job but still a lot missing due to non-professional mindset of PCB and PSL organizers things can take changes in future but for this needed more money flow and also better global viewership, but this is not easy for them due to the worst policies.

[ZAINmalik75]

Yeh once again PSL will start parallel to ipl, honestly most of people around the world believe it may damage PSL but instead of any minior damge they got some extra top class player to be the part, <snip>

How does it benefit the PSL if they start it in parallel to the IPL? I think there are two drawbacks to this. First of all, it is the audience and the global viewership as people will be more interested in watching the IPL matches as compared to the PSL. Secondly, the international players who wanted to play both PSL and IPL, will now only prefer to play IPL as they offer better incentives. Yeah, those players who aren't picked during the IPL auction, they can try participating in the PSL.

You are absolutely right while having parallel to ipl will have huge bad impact on PSL like low viewership as well as most of big name will be prefer to part of ipl compared to PSL like Rashid, gurbaz, Powell, Rutherford, A.joseph etc, but management were focused for having big new name like for a first time PSL got a name like warner, Mitchell, Allen, Joseph, owen etc after shift from UAE to take home land. Morever the big concern for PSL window were international duty whome restrict player to be a part.

while the second things is icc has alot that free window to ipl where most of team player were free from International duty to be IPL a part so PSL want to utilize that opportunity to grab the unsold big names at ipl, like recently Faf du Plessis has announced to withdraw from ipl to accept the new challenge to be the part of PSL and soon more will be on the way may be Maxwell too.

[virasog]

This time we will see PSL with two new teams, Sialkot and Hyderabad. Last night in the auction, both of the teams picked by the owners. Before when it was the first auction of PSL 10 years ago, that time it as new for every one , every franchise and every team's owner but now it is a running brand and let's see how these new teams will perform in the league.

Right now the logo will be made soon and the jersey will be finalized to, and at the same time these will be most exciting teams. 

[ZAINmalik75]

This time we will see PSL with two new teams, Sialkot and Hyderabad. Last night in the auction, both of the teams picked by the owners. Before when it was the first auction of PSL 10 years ago, that time it as new for every one , every franchise and every team's owner but now it is a running brand and let's see how these new teams will perform in the league.

Right now the logo will be made soon and the jersey will be finalized to, and at the same time these will be most exciting teams. 

Yeh for the first time in 10 years Pakistan Super League auction his two new team after Multan and surprinsgly both of new team generate handsome amount for management, and after looking to situation PSL management change his mindset for Multan sultan to auction for a third time instead of managing by themselves decision. Morever such new team owner make sure to bring more investment as Well as will bring big foreigner player too and will develop the cricket facilities and infrastructure in thier cities too, which will definitely facilities young player and will provide them opportunity to show thier real talent and get opportunity to play national team.

[UmerIdrees]

This time we will see PSL with two new teams, Sialkot and Hyderabad. Last night in the auction, both of the teams picked by the owners. Before when it was the first auction of PSL 10 years ago, that time it as new for every one , every franchise and every team's owner but now it is a running brand and let's see how these new teams will perform in the league.

Right now the logo will be made soon and the jersey will be finalized to, and at the same time these will be most exciting teams. 

Yeh for the first time in 10 years Pakistan Super League auction his two new team after Multan and surprinsgly both of new team generate handsome amount for management, and after looking to situation PSL management change his mindset for Multan sultan to auction for a third time instead of managing by themselves decision. Morever such new team owner make sure to bring more investment as Well as will bring big foreigner player too and will develop the cricket facilities and infrastructure in thier cities too, which will definitely facilities young player and will provide them opportunity to show thier real talent and get opportunity to play national team.

I heard there are some new changes and they are being implemented in all aspects of the tournament like auctions, purse balance, player retention, new teams and several others.

Better if someone can share a comprehensive update on PSL changes for this season?

[ZAINmalik75]

Yeh it's official Auction Time 🔥, PSL management after several meetings with franchise owner and fans feedback announced auction after having Draft system for last 10 season, obviously main reason regarding such huge change were to attract big names and keep the craze alive. Anyway rules were explained above clearly but regarding direct singing management has decide to keep no budget limit for franchise and the cool things is that such deals wouldn't effect thier total alloted purse of 1.6million$ for Auction like it wouldn't be deducted here, so they can have versatile option. Morever Sialkot announced his as expected "stallions" as his last name while Hyderabad may go for Kingsman as they already own Chicago Kingsman.

Now after having 4 retaintion but once per category create some kind of trouble for franchise as well as fans, for me as a Zalmi fan I would love to keep saim and baber both, but unfortunately rule hasn't allowed now due to same category. so what you would suggest zalmi to retain the king bobby or go for young superstar saim the future.

[IvugeoEvolutionCoin]

This time we will see PSL with two new teams, Sialkot and Hyderabad. Last night in the auction, both of the teams picked by the owners. Before when it was the first auction of PSL 10 years ago, that time it as new for every one , every franchise and every team's owner but now it is a running brand and let's see how these new teams will perform in the league.

Right now the logo will be made soon and the jersey will be finalized to, and at the same time these will be most exciting teams. 

Yeh for the first time in 10 years Pakistan Super League auction his two new team after Multan and surprinsgly both of new team generate handsome amount for management, and after looking to situation PSL management change his mindset for Multan sultan to auction for a third time instead of managing by themselves decision. Morever such new team owner make sure to bring more investment as Well as will bring big foreigner player too and will develop the cricket facilities and infrastructure in thier cities too, which will definitely facilities young player and will provide them opportunity to show thier real talent and get opportunity to play national team.

I heard there are some new changes and they are being implemented in all aspects of the tournament like auctions, purse balance, player retention, new teams and several others.

Better if someone can share a comprehensive update on PSL changes for this season?

The league has been growing and stable since it has included two more PSL teams after ten years. The changes to the auctions, purse balance and retention of players in this season are meant to bring about fair competition between new and existing franchises. The new owners will be expected to introduce new investment, improved infrastructure, and the best foreign players that will enhance local cricket and make more opportunities to the young local talents.

[virasog]

The league has been growing and stable since it has included two more PSL teams after ten years. The changes to the auctions, purse balance and retention of players in this season are meant to bring about fair competition between new and existing franchises. The new owners will be expected to introduce new investment, improved infrastructure, and the best foreign players that will enhance local cricket and make more opportunities to the young local talents.

There will be eight teams for this 2026 edition of the PSL. The new franchises will be from the Sialkot and the Hyderabad region. This time the auction in February will feature some new rules like there will be reduced retentions and it will be 4 players per team and also it will be one per category like platinum, diamond, gold or silver.

The total Squad size would be 18, while the playing XI will be 11 players, four of them can be the overseas ones but not more than that. I think all these rules will have a positive impact on the league's lineups and create some challenges for the team.

[ZAINmalik75]

Once again after PSL player auction workshop management has made some bold changes regarding upcoming auctions to keep the craze on top, base Price per category has been revealed for platinum, diamond, gold as well as silver and rest of business will be done in Pakistani rupees(pkr) only at auction, Morever management decide to keep the player contract UpTo 2 years to keep balance at team in term of strength and then mega auction will be take placed after every two edition of the tournament.

However to provide maximum opportunity for his domestic young gems management has set mandatory to keep 2 uncapped talent per franchise at squad minimum and every team should mandatory keep single uncapped player at playing XI for rest of thier tournament matches.